2027 Winter Classic Jerseys: Utah Mammoth vs Colorado Avalanche

The 2027 Winter Classic is on Thursday, December 31, 2026, at Rice-Eccles Stadium in Salt Lake City. The Utah Mammoth host the Colorado Avalanche in the first outdoor game in Utah's history. Neither team has released its Winter Classic jersey yet. We will update this page as each jersey comes out.

Published November 12, 2026 · Updated November 12, 2026

What we know about the 2027 Winter Classic

• Event: the 2027 Discover NHL Winter Classic, the league's annual New Year's outdoor game.
• Date: Thursday, December 31, 2026, New Year's Eve. No start time has been published. Commissioner Gary Bettman described it as late afternoon or early evening in Salt Lake City, prime time in the East, with part of the game under the lights.
• Venue: Rice-Eccles Stadium on the University of Utah campus in Salt Lake City, which seats more than 51,000 for football and hosted the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2002 Winter Olympics.
• Teams: the Utah Mammoth (home) and the Colorado Avalanche.
• A first for Utah: it is the Mammoth's first outdoor game. Once it is played, every one of the NHL's 32 clubs will have played outdoors.
• Jerseys: as of November 2026, neither team has released its Winter Classic jersey. When the venue was announced in January 2026, Commissioner Gary Bettman said the jerseys had not been designed yet. We last checked on November 12, 2026.

This is also the second of three outdoor games in the 2026-27 season. The Jets and Canadiens played the Heritage Classic in Winnipeg on October 25, and the Stars host the Golden Knights in the Stadium Series at AT&T Stadium on February 20, 2027.

Utah Mammoth: first outdoor game

The Mammoth are the NHL's newest club. The league set up the Utah franchise on April 18, 2024, and it bought the Arizona Coyotes' hockey assets, meaning the players and hockey staff. It is a new franchise rather than the Coyotes renamed. The club played the 2024-25 season as the Utah Hockey Club at Delta Center in Salt Lake City, then took the Utah Mammoth name in 2025. Its colors are Rock Black, Mountain Blue and Salt White.

That short history is why this is Utah's first outdoor game. The Coyotes never played one in Arizona, and before the 2025-26 season only Utah and the Florida Panthers had never played outdoors. The Panthers hosted the 2026 Winter Classic in Miami, which left Utah as the last club waiting.

Salt Lake City is a natural fit for a winter game. In the last week of December the city's average high is about 37°F and the average low about 24°F, according to long-term NOAA climate averages. That is far colder than the 2026 Winter Classic in Miami, though rain or snow is always possible, and Rice-Eccles Stadium has no roof. The stadium is also tied to winter sport: the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team lit the cauldron there at the opening of the 2002 Games.

Winter Classic jerseys usually look back in time, and a club with only two seasons behind it has little of its own past to draw on. The last two young clubs to play the game show how that has been handled. For the 2024 Winter Classic in Seattle, the Kraken based their jersey on the Seattle Metropolitans, the city's 1917 Stanley Cup winners, while the Golden Knights took their look from the Wild West of the 1910s. Neither club had any history of its own from that era. What Utah will do has not been announced, and we will not guess at it. You can see the club's current Mountain Blue look on our Mammoth Hometown Remix jersey page.

Colorado Avalanche: their outdoor history

The Avalanche have played three outdoor games, all in February and none of them a Winter Classic, so December 31 will be their first Winter Classic too.

• February 27, 2016, Coors Field, Denver (Stadium Series): lost 5-3 to the Detroit Red Wings before 50,095 fans. The Avalanche wore a white jersey with blue, silver and burgundy sleeve stripes and a C taken from the Colorado state flag on the chest. The collar was stitched with 5,280, the city's elevation in feet.
• February 15, 2020, Falcon Stadium, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs (Stadium Series): lost 3-1 to the Los Angeles Kings before 43,574. The jersey was blocked in blue, white and burgundy, which the club said stood for Colorado's skies, snow and red rocks. The angular A on the front was inspired by the Academy's Cadet Chapel.
• February 20, 2021, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (NHL Outdoors): beat the Vegas Golden Knights 3-2, with no fans because of COVID-19. Instead of a one-off design, the Avalanche wore their white Reverse Retro jersey, modeled on the home uniform of the Quebec Nordiques, the franchise before its 1995 move to Denver.

Two threads run through those games. Colorado's outdoor jerseys have used local references rather than the vintage looks many clubs wear at the Winter Classic: the Mile High elevation, the state flag and the Air Force Academy chapel. And the state-flag C from 2016 is back on the club's current Hometown Remix jersey, filled with a mountain contour pattern (see our Avalanche Remix jersey page). This will be the Avalanche's fourth outdoor game. How their Winter Classic jersey will look has not been announced.

Sizing: what size to buy before the jersey drops

You can work out your size now. When we checked Fanatics.com on November 11, 2026, the 2026 Winter Classic jerseys were sold in the same two adult versions, with the same size numbers, as this season's Hometown Remix jerseys:

• Premium: sizes 42 to 60, a relaxed fit with room for a T-shirt underneath. It is closer to the body than the Authentic Pro.
• Authentic Pro: sizes 48 to 60, cut oversized to go over pads, the same cut players wear on the ice.

The key point is that the same number does not fit the same in both. On Fanatics' charts, an Authentic Pro has about 3.5 inches more chest than a Premium with the same number. For an outdoor game where you will wear a hoodie underneath, our size guide suggests a Premium one number up. Our Hometown Remix size guide has the full charts, the size number for each letter size, and the return and exchange rules. If you have not chosen a version yet, read Authentic Pro vs Premium. The 2027 jerseys have not been listed yet, so check the size chart on the product page once they are.

Where to buy 2027 Winter Classic jerseys

What you cannot buy yet: any 2027 Winter Classic jersey. As of November 12, 2026, Fanatics listed none and neither team had unveiled one. Prices for the 2027 jerseys have not been announced either.

What you can buy now: jerseys and gear from earlier Winter Classics. On November 11, 2026, Fanatics.com had the Florida Panthers' 2026 jersey in Premium and Authentic Pro, a youth 2026 New York Rangers jersey, and the Chicago Blackhawks' 2025 Premium. It also had 2026 Winter Classic hats, hoodies and other gear. These are leftover stock from earlier games, so not every size may be listed.

Last season's prices, for reference: the 2026 Winter Classic Premium jersey listed at $189.99 and the Authentic Pro at $434.99. These are the regular (non-sale) prices for the 2026 jerseys, not the 2027 ones. They are also not the same as this season's Hometown Remix prices ($224.99 for a Premium), so do not assume 2027 will match either.

Once Fanatics lists each 2027 jersey, this page shows it with each version's price and sizes, for the US and for Canada.