Trivial but why not? Should the NHL allow players to wear 0 and 00 ?

[The Moose]

A while ago I played in the math department's softball team. We were the Edmonton Eulers and had Greek letters on our jerseys. Fun nerdy times.

 

[Oddbob]

No, that would be stupid!

 

[Kevinsane]

00 is a very cool number for a goalie. Marty Biron was awesome for wearing it.

 

[LeafalCrusader]

 

[Backcheckmonster3]

Yes as well as three digits

Why not 4? Let them wear rainbow colored digits maybe with an occasional letter to make their jersey number look like a password.

..For real, obviously not, it is just really stupid. Beyond stupid. Makes 0+0 sense.

 

[SwedishFire]

Ok, but what about #69? Perfectly good number, has a certain symmetry to it. But no one wears it. Can’t figure out why.

Oh noo. I cant see if youre joking or not.

 

[Norwegianoiler]

What's redundant? 00? What about 11,22,33, etc?

I'm all for it. 0 and 00 are good goalie numbers lol

Not a mathematician, eh?

Allow 00, but also allow any mathematical symbol like

or Ω or

!

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

Why not it is a number.

 

[DingerMcSlapshot]

Biron mentioned that the scoresheet shorthand for a misconduct was double zero so he was asked to change his number.

Find that hard to believe. Read many places that it was because 0 and 00 screwed up their data base at the time.

 

[PK]

Is 98 numbers to choose from not enough?

And “00” is not a number.

 

[Legion34]

Ok, but what about #69? Perfectly good number, has a certain symmetry to it. But no one wears it. Can’t figure out why.

Some do. I’m pretty sure Greg mckegg wore it in toronto

 

[Statto]

Databases even back then were able to handle it. It was lazy NHL developers who couldn’t.

You’d have to go some way to make it not handle it. Any RDBMS back then could handle it, MS Access could and Excel could.

Web development was in its infancy though. After all a 56k modem was bleeding edge technology

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Oh noo. I cant see if youre joking or not.

I am a innocent numberphile. I think the symmetry with 3 is cool. 3X23=69. Two threes make a 9 when multiplied, a 6 when added. It’s a very cool number. Please help. When I google I just get dirty results for some reason.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Trivial but in some countries 00 means WC. .Maybe 01?

 

[SomeDude]

Would like Shesterkin to wear 00.

Then whenever he shuts out the Pens he could pull up the crest of his jersey showing the numbers and mock the fans. Would be awesome lol

I think he would be wearing it in honor of the number of rings won by his predecessor Hank.

 

[Channelcat]

0 is an integer, so probably should be allowed. 00 is the same......so you couldn't have both on one team.

 

[Chainshot]

Find that hard to believe. Read many places that it was because 0 and 00 screwed up their data base at the time.

Pardon? The way he explained it was very much exactly that. The zero/double zero he has said messed with how they did the data input - the coding (shorthand) for the penalties and their jerseys numbers caused problems.

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And by the time I was full-time in the NHL they had made the rule change that I couldn’t use 00, but I got to play a few games with it because Jim Pizzutelli, who was the athletic trainer with the Sabres, and Rip Simonik, the equipment manager, were like, “We’re giving the kid 00.” So when I got to Pittsburgh for my first NHL game, they had my 00 jersey made up. They were the ones that allowed me to wear it.

 

[LuckyDay]

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C+/C++ systems, until recently, used 0 and 00 as the null terminator so it was problematic.

There is debate whether the NHA or PCHA first used numbers. 1911 was the first year the NHA officially required it. The PCHA did it as a marketing stunt to sell programs so people would have to look at the guide to see who's playing.

The PCHA first used numbers on their sweaters but they were set according to position. i.e. Cyclone Taylor wore #3 or #4 depending on whether he was playing Rover or Counterpoint. This is probably how those numbers became traditionally associated with defensemen as well as #1 for goalies.

This obviously couldn't continue as rosters grew from 6 and 7 players.

Later, the legend (or fact), is the numbers indicated the order of the players who came off the bus. For this reason a teams #1 goalie had the lowest number (#1) and the backup had the highest - usually in the 30's for some reason.

 

[seafoam]

I used to wear #00, best number.

should be allowed

 

[LuckyDay]

Other numbers players wore in Blernsball were 4, 5/8, 2/9, and IIRC, π. Everything else was retired. We should use that

 

[Chuck Norris Trophy]

Why not? I don't care if they want to celebrate Puljujärvi's hockey IQ.

 

[EdJovanovski]

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[miscs75]

anyone named Bond in the system somewhere? He should be considered for having 007 on his jersey.

Why not? I don't care if they want to celebrate Puljujärvi's hockey IQ.

I thought 00 was Lafreniere’s odds of not being a draft bust like Nail Yakupov.

 

[BigEezyE22]

Ok, but what about #69? Perfectly good number, has a certain symmetry to it. But no one wears it. Can’t figure out why.

That would be a real turnaround.

 

[Sasha Orlov]

Why not 4? Let them wear rainbow colored digits maybe with an occasional letter to make their jersey number look like a password.

..For real, obviously not, it is just really stupid. Beyond stupid. Makes 0+0 sense.

Cool opinion, into the trash it goes