NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

I hate the Leafs sweaters.

They look like fucking t-shirts.

Where are the bands at the bottom?

And I hate the logos.

Bring back the old time one:

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Sirs, Madames,

If the Finn puckblocker goes south, those sweaters will be great. Every white stripe = a Leaf win.

YHS, etc

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Glad I picked up one more Canes sweater before the style changes ... I'm wondering how long it will take for the fans to acclimate. Or will there enough of an uproar to get this system dumped?

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

What's with the lines running down the Oilers' sweaters? It looks so out-of-place.

 

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Thing is, are hockey fans fighting evolution - think football fans and players going from leather to plastic helmets, no facemasks to facemasks, etc. - or is this increasing logo creep (to use Paul Lukas' term) and just unnecessary crap done by Reebok?

I wonder if it's a little bit of both.

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

This fan isn't fighting evolution. But I don't like the Reebok-i-zation of the sweaters and uniforms. It reeks of changing just for the sake of changing.

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Classy move, Sabres, by not helping to pay Teppo's hospital bills.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/09162007/sports/numminen_deserves_better_from_.htm?page=0

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Okay, I want to try my first hockey fantasy league. Are there are any that have room for a newbie? JR promises to help me.

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Mine does!

NHL.com
League name is SportsJournalists.com (it's a private league; sjers only)
and the password is SportsJournalists.com

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Don't pick Luch Aquino.

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

Or Aki Berg.

 

Re: 2007 NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

I was thinking that Reebok was toying with stuff a bit too much myself. The new materials? Fine. Tweaking with piping and doing away with much of what gives these sweaters a decent touch? Yeah, that's too much.