Players caught trashing their own Reverse Retro jerseys in Tampa Bay

The jersey didn’t stop Tampa Bay Lightning star goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy from pulling off a 52-save performance on Thursday night, however, the players’ comments on the Reverse Retro gear might have taught them a lesson in Karma. The Bolts lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in a 4-3 shootout after a video of them trashing their own Reverse Retro jerseys in Tampa Bay was put out. 

The Reverse Retro design has gotten heat since it was put up to fans. It is white, with the original Lightning logo decorated with blue and gray rain markings, and blue storm surge waves along the waist on the front and back. It has gray shoulders and black sleeves, with white lightning bolts with yellow trim. The numbers and letters are jagged to simulate lightning.

Ahead of puck drop, the team revealed a video with the players’ reaction to the jersey when it was first presented to them, and we cannot believe they decide to post it, seeing that you can see players like Pat Maroon and Alex Killorn just complaining about the look and the fact that the design on the sleeves looks like flames, not lightning bolts.

“We’re wearing that thing?”

Their first reactions are simply brutal:

What do you make of the Lightning’s Reverse Retro gear?