Here's the only possibly positive silver lining of this...

Previously, team's created these custom uniforms, wore them for warm-ups, and then auctioned them off with proceeds going to charity. That's great for the charity, but only 23 fans get to participate and it's restricted to people who are a) present for however the auction happens and b) capable of spending the money. While it's great that someone is paying $1000 for a unique Robert Hagg Red Wings jersey, that person is never going to be me so I am entirely boxed out of participating. I absolutely HATE fan auctions because rich people get to have cool stuff and those of us who are poorer or just being more reasonable with our money get to sit on our thumbs and feel bad.

So okay, no more Pride or HFC or First Nations warm-up auctions. But maybe teams that actually care about these things will pivot to just selling these uniforms as replicas! Maybe teams won't make $30/40/50k anymore (total sale price of the DRW Tigers Night warmups was over $45k; not sure how much of that goes to the charity). Still, just put these things in the team store and let several hundred fans buy them at the usual price. If the Wings sold 258 Tigers Night replicas at $175 each, the sales price is the same $45k. You would *easily* sell 250 Pride replicas. Sorry to the dude who wants to spend $5000 on a uniform that Moritz Seider sweated on, the rest of us just want a chance to represent our team and our beliefs for a price that isn't a couple months of rent.

Of course, we'll be getting crap Fanatics quality for the time being, which also sucks. And yes, this means the team store will likely also be selling some terrible Blue Lives Matter version of uniforms too. But at least when I see the Thin Blue Line replica guy waiting for the bathroom, I know to stand plenty far away from him at the peeing trough.