That I would sign-up for. I'm all for using old stuff on special occasions and celebrating the past.
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That I would sign-up for. I'm all for using old stuff on special occasions and celebrating the past.
100%.
Also hopefully they will do a 50th anniversary thing with it in 2028, and that would also tie in with the 50th anniversary of Smyl/Gradin's debuts.
The only uniforms I really don't like are the 97-07 blue/red orca unis. It's just not my team's colours, not a logo that means anything, and I have zero emotional connection to it at all. When I watch old highlights it actually takes me a bit to process that I'm watching the Vancouver Canucks.
as a middle millennial child who was 11 years old during the peak of the WCE, my visual reference from that era of franchise history is the gradient jersey lol
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Yep, and we have a couple of new players. Only played with them once, (husband and wife) but we had a good game, and they made money. I lost money for the first time in a while. We mostly played Omaha hi-lo all night. As usual, it was only $200 - 300 for the winners and losers, and most were under $100.
Edit - speaking of jerseys, I always go to games wearing my dad's 80th birthday sweater he got in 2003, the year before he died.
Enough, time to go play geezer hockey.
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ha, same. but that doesn't mean it should be brought back just to appeal to our demographic. similarly, not surprised that guys in their 40s love the (ugly!!!!) jersey of their childhood!
another jersey thought - a couple retro theme nights would be fun, especially if they were original throwbacks. but really hope they don't do the nba thing (one of the few things the nba has done horribly in comparison to the nhl) where they pump out a different version of a theme (city jerseys, etc.) every single year and water down the meaning of the team's look altogether.
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Nothing special is too extreme. I don't think they can't be touched by non-original 6 teams or anything, but at least two or three of them are legitimately immaculately designed and perfectly considered. I didn't grow up with any more nostalgia for those teams than I did the freaken Minnesota Wild, but it's hard to beat that Red Wings and Bruins logo/jersey combination, and the Canadiens one is really rock solid as well.
I do personally find the Rangers logo/colors really ugly and overrated, though.
Also, while I wouldn't go as far as to say that I like the no-logo V uniforms, I find them a lot less objectionable than the Skate or Orca, personally.
Detroit and Boston's are terrific, yeah.
The rest? Nah. Montreal's is literally as boring as it gets but there is 100+ years of history attached to it that give it a much deeper meaning.
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with the skate jerseys, i actually have very very different relationships to it depending on the colours
the black one, yes i do associate it with the post-courtnall/ronning trade up to the ’94 run, but i also associate it with the earlier dan quinn, jim sandlak, early disastrous years of larionov/krutov, paul reinhart era. because i started watching in ’89 and that was our jersey then.
but our home jerseys at that time were the skate logo on yellow.
so here’s kirk mclean’s home and away during the season we pushed the ’89 flames to seven games:
props for the ugly yellow helmet whose background he later painted white.
whereas the white home skate jerseys, that’s what i associate with the golden era of pat quinn.
iirc, the home whites were new in the 1989-‘90 season. so that’s a year earlier than when we traded dan quinn and garth butcher at the deadline for courtnall, ronning, big mo, and robert dirk. the real beginning of the pat quinn golden age was 1990-’91, with the big trade, but also the first year of linden as full captain, the first full year of lumme (he was a 1990 deadline acquisition), gino’s rookie season, and the year we got diduck and murzyn to fill out our D. but because the black skate jersey preceded my fandom, it was really the home whites that felt to me like the dawn of a new era. (for those keeping score at home, bure came over in the fall of 1991 and then absolutely everything changed.)
all to say, if you want to hit my nostalgia bone, it’s gotta be those white skate jerseys. the black ones just look weird and out of time to me.
but to maybe put those admittedly ugly skate jesreys in context, i think you have to remember late 1980s cyberpunk. forgive my armchair cultural criticism here but after the popularity of blade runner, we had like tekwar and ridley scott and the first terminator all the way up to johnny mnemonic in the mid-90s. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that versace made that canucks sweater right around the time of the late 2010s blade runner revival.
the black one, yes i do associate it with the post-courtnall/ronning trade up to the ’94 run, but i also associate it with the earlier dan quinn, jim sandlak, early disastrous years of larionov/krutov, paul reinhart era. because i started watching in ’89 and that was our jersey then.
but our home jerseys at that time were the skate logo on yellow.
so here’s kirk mclean’s home and away during the season we pushed the ’89 flames to seven games:
props for the ugly yellow helmet whose background he later painted white.
whereas the white home skate jerseys, that’s what i associate with the golden era of pat quinn.
iirc, the home whites were new in the 1989-‘90 season. so that’s a year earlier than when we traded dan quinn and garth butcher at the deadline for courtnall, ronning, big mo, and robert dirk. the real beginning of the pat quinn golden age was 1990-’91, with the big trade, but also the first year of linden as full captain, the first full year of lumme (he was a 1990 deadline acquisition), gino’s rookie season, and the year we got diduck and murzyn to fill out our D. but because the black skate jersey preceded my fandom, it was really the home whites that felt to me like the dawn of a new era. (for those keeping score at home, bure came over in the fall of 1991 and then absolutely everything changed.)
all to say, if you want to hit my nostalgia bone, it’s gotta be those white skate jerseys. the black ones just look weird and out of time to me.
but to maybe put those admittedly ugly skate jesreys in context, i think you have to remember late 1980s cyberpunk. forgive my armchair cultural criticism here but after the popularity of blade runner, we had like tekwar and ridley scott and the first terminator all the way up to johnny mnemonic in the mid-90s. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that versace made that canucks sweater right around the time of the late 2010s blade runner revival.
I think the flying V with blue and green would be hideously awesome. The wordmark years were the worst jerseys ever
Yeah, I was thinking more of Toronto and Montreal when I wrote that - fair enough.
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I was at that game. So good.
Although the highlight was the uproariously drunk fellow next to us yelling “COME ON, TERBUZZI, SCORE A GOAL!”
with the skate jerseys, i actually have very very different relationships to it depending on the colours
the black one, yes i do associate it with the post-courtnall/ronning trade up to the ’94 run, but i also associate it with the earlier dan quinn, troy gamble, early disastrous years of larionov/krutov, paul reinhart era. because i started watching in ’89 and that was our jersey then.
but our home jerseys at that time were the skate logo on yellow.
so here’s kirk mclean’s home and away during the season we pushed the ’89 flames to seven games:
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props for the ugly yellow helmet whose background he later painted white.
whereas the white home skate jerseys, that’s what i associate with the golden era of pat quinn.
iirc, the home whites were new in the 1989-‘90 season. so that’s a year earlier than when we traded dan quinn and garth butcher at the deadline for courtnall, ronning, big mo, and robert dirk. the real beginning of the pat quinn golden age was 1990-’91, with the big trade, but also the first year of linden as full captain, the first full year of lumme (he was a 1990 deadline acquisition), gino’s rookie season, and the year we got diduck and murzyn to fill out our D. but because the black skate jersey preceded my fandom, it was really the home whites that felt to me like the dawn of a new era. (for those keeping score at home, bure came over in the fall of 1991 and then absolutely everything changed.)
all to say, if you want to hit my nostalgia bone, it’s gotta be those white skate jerseys. the black ones just look weird and out of time to me.
but to maybe put those admittedly ugly skate jesreys in context, i think you have to remember late 1980s cyberpunk. forgive my armchair cultural criticism here but after the popularity of blade runner, we had like tekwar and ridley scott and the first terminator all the way up to johnny mnemonic in the mid-90s. i don’t think it’s a coincidence that versace made that canucks sweater right around the time of the late 2010s blade runner revival.
To me the 85-89 uniforms were actually legitimately ugly, and the black road unis are tangibly different from the 1990s versions. The striping is different, the shades of yellow/orange are different, and it ... just doesn't work. And the yellow homes are just ick. They're taking the 78-85 uniforms and removing everything that was special and weird about them and just leaving the bad elements.
I love the '90s home whites as well. Great uniforms.
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I hate that era, cause I am perpetually reminded of the following: Messier, Keenan, post-season failures, Dan Cloutier, Bertuzzi/Moore, Brad May, etc...
The WCE was great, but that era was totally pathetic in many respects and I just see misery in those jerseys. Thankfully this franchise began transitioning to the green/blue scheme by the 07 Playoffs.
There were a few notorious drunks from that era. It was downright intimidating being a young teen and situated in the upper bowl.
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I 100% agree. It's always been a major pet peeve of mine.
Personally, I have nothing but pure disdain and disgust for the entire concept of nostalgia and the effect that it has on people, primarily because I find that it only unnecessarily muddies perception and gives present-day people ammunition to dismiss/disregard the specific old things that are ACTUALLY legitimately great and that withstand the test of time, without nostalgia having anything to do with it. I find that incredibly unfortunate and annoying.
Hell, even a lot of the things that I feel has true substance but a lot of nostalgia attached to them in general end up giving people the wrong impression of what actually makes them good (they end up only focusing on the superficial things about them that they liked as a kid), and that can result in future decisions that ruin them.
Beyond that, it's just a bad form of irrationality-- The LAST thing I would want is for the same crappy tastes and sensibilities that I happened to have as a child to dictate how I still feel about things today.
Don't get me wrong, I can be susceptible to it at times as well, but it's so incredibly overvalued and overstated. It's the easiest thing in the world to recognize your own nostalgia and snuff it out immediately, with all the reason in the world to do so as early as possible, IMO (I'd want to nip it at the bud in the same way I would other irrational and ultimately negatively influencing feelings like jealousy/rage, in my view).
This would actually be the perfect sentiment for the unpopular opinion thread, if it weren't mostly non-hockey-related.
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Bring back the skate. Millions time better than the Orca. I don’t like the logo, C reminds me of the word “
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