BUTT UGLY UNIFORMS– NHL- PART 3
Gary Norris Gray- BASN Staff Reporter
In the butt ugly category, it’s the New Jersey Devils…Green, white, and Red, happen to be the Devils main colors, the catholic sisters who went to the games often in the Meadowlands with the convent across the hi-way told the Devils administration that they would never win wearing those Christmas colors and with that name Devils, the organization wanted to recognize the myth of the Jersey Devils in the South Jersey woodlands near the New Jersey Garden State Parkway which some people have claimed to see. New Jersey never won until they went with the Black and Red uniform.
The Arizona Coyotes what kind of logo is that in the middle of their uniform and the colors don’t match anything and don’t tell me that thing in the middle of their jersey is a coyote. The Coyotes came from the Winnipeg Jets in 1996-1998. They completely change the uniform to the desert motif of purple, red, green, and white with the modern art coyote in the middle. The howling Red wolf sweater is so much better.
The Minnesota Wild like all of the Minnesota teams have a love for that dark evergreen colors, This logo is very interesting with the creation of the wolf, the river making the mouth of the wolf, with the north star the eye of the wolf, sun set, and forest full of trees, in the middle of the sweater. One of the lastest expansion teams to join the league in 2000 as they were introduced the song bleared “Born to Be Wild,” by Steppenwolf. The Wild would replace the Minnesota North Stars that moved to Dallas.
Vancouver Canucks– The Canucks became the Canadian northwest team in 1970 with the ocean colors of blue, green, with white trim. Vancouver’s first logo was the Stick-in-Rink logo that formed a ‘C’ from 1970-1978.
Then came the V jerseys with the black, yellow, and brunt orange a few years before the Flying Skate sweaters. The Canucks became Canada’s first team to have three jerseys, White, Black and brunt orange.
Vancouver returned to the blue, green, and white jerseys in 2001 with the big C and the killer orca whale on the front.
Edmonton Oilers-The 2021-22 jersey’s need to be retired. Are they on drugs, the new uniforms were very difficult to see the name of players, the logo, or the name of the team when the lights are turned on the ice, The Oilers need to return to the WHA uniform days of number 99 and Grant Fuhr
Colorado Avalanche– The Aves moved from Quebec, Canada to Denver, Colorado. The Nordiques would move west in 1972 and the Western Conference. The current Aves should have stayed with the black and blue uniforms which happen to be their best uniform but because of the gang ties to the west coast they had to abandon this sweater.
Anaheim Ducks-the Mighty Ducks uniform, a cartoon character does not fit hockey team. The off purple and teal colors was an awful combination together. The Ducks have come up with a few more bad sweaters in the past 20 years, maybe they need to change the name of the team because nobody is scared of a duck but they can be very pesky and they got that right because Anaheim can be seen every year in the playoffs of the western conference.
New York Islanders– the Fisherman sweater or Fishstick sweater was a terrible mistake and the colors were way off, the Islanders were the key to hockey jokes for two years from coast to coast.
New York Ranger – Winnipeg Jet Jersey. Jets took this design and made it their own while the Rangers dropped the jersey after two years.
The Hartford Whalers with that slime lime green, gray, and white with blue trim. The Hartford organization moved the team to North Carolina and joined the red, white, and black uniform club with the Hurricane name.
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