On Friday, the board of governors voted to have the teams wear a colored jersey at home and their white jersey on the road starting with the 2003-04 season. I imagine, though, that they'll still wear whites or an alternate jersey at home every once in a while.
I take it that it will still be the home team's prerogative, like in football. The Cowboys, for example, tend to wear their white jerseys at home. Thus, they end up wearing their team color jerseys sparingly. And for God's sake someone tell the Bruins to get a new alternate, not that damned disgrace.
Cool! The original move to white home jerseys was apparently to have fans in a city see all the pretty jerseys from across the league (ie not the whites).
The way I understood it, it'll just reverse. Out of 41 home games (reg. season), currently the home team wears white jerseys maybe 35-36 games per season. Next season, if I understood the vote correctly, the home team will wear color most of the time instead of white. Home team fans should still see white or alternate on occasion, just not as much. Yeah. I honestly wish they could go to a primary/alternate system like in english football where a team wears it's colored jersey all the time, unless if conflict. Just my $0.02