Check out the four new in-ice ad positions the NHL added starting this season

BarDown Staff

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We hope we never see the day in which advertisements are on hockey jerseys, but that day could be coming soon, especially now that it's already happened in the NBA.

A hockey team is a business and ads help make money for said business, so whether teams put ads on jerseys or on the ice, they profit in the end.

Obviously there are ads on the boards and ice in every arena, but this season it there will be a few more advertisements on the ice:

Back like we never left 🔥 pic.twitter.com/os8TYV2k6h
— Philadelphia Flyers (@NHLFlyers) August 27, 2018

@PhilHecken @UniWatch from official Bruins Instagram.. TD Garden looks like it has ads in the corners of the ice now - is this across the league?? pic.twitter.com/t1gdP0rwqu
— Ryan Rudman (@RyanRudman) August 27, 2018

We knew ads in the corners of the ice were coming (they are new for this year, but the announcement was made back in April) and the NHL actually tested the new ad positions out during the All-Star game in Tampa and the exhibition games in China prior to last season.

NHL news in @sbjsbd: Starting next season, NHL & teams will be selling in-ice advertising in the four rink corners. Was tested at ASG in Tampa & in China https://t.co/7x2GI2zkPc pic.twitter.com/DQgdkXmjd9
— Ian Thomas (@byIanThomas) April 23, 2018

As per Ian Thomas of SBJ (Sports Business Journal), these will be "the first new pieces of inventory the league has added inside the rink since the 1990s."

(H/T: /r/hockey)