Canada's Olympic Jerseys

http://www.icethetics.info/blog/2009/8/12/olympic-first-look-canada.html

meh... to close to a leafs jersey. funny enough i don't think anybody from the leafs will be suiting up for the olympics? was beauchemin invited?

Flo The Action wrote:meh... to close to a leafs jersey. funny enough i don't think anybody from the leafs will be suiting up for the olympics? was beauchemin invited?

Close except this one fills me with pride and not nausea.

The monster may be playing for Sweden as a backup, as well as Komisarek for the US.

not bad at all. Will look good with a gold medal around it

What's that inside the maple leaf? Just random noise or does that not look like a crown and perhaps an eagle or something?

wprager wrote:What's that inside the maple leaf? Just random noise or does that not look like a crown and perhaps an eagle or something?

It's Haida (spelling?) Indian carvings....

My source (and a very good one both in heritage and position) says they are specific to ask the gods for luck and protection.


Sort of similar to the loonie in the ice, but more like a bunch of luck in the crest.

They are very cool, and the meanings behind the engravings are encouraging.

I thought that the IOC prohibited the use of the Maple Leaf though?

Dawg's Wife wrote:

wprager wrote:What's that inside the maple leaf? Just random noise or does that not look like a crown and perhaps an eagle or something?

It's Haida (spelling?) Indian carvings....

My source (and a very good one both in heritage and position) says they are specific to ask the gods for luck and protection.


Sort of similar to the loonie in the ice, but more like a bunch of luck in the crest.

Ah, that makes sense. I'm well familiar with Haida, having helped my son in a school project on that. Plus having read that "O is for Orca" about a million times to my kids (in that book "H is for Haida").

Dash wrote:They are very cool, and the meanings behind the engravings are encouraging.

I thought that the IOC prohibited the use of the Maple Leaf though?

The IOC prohibits the use of logos from corporate entities, which Hockey Canada is, so that logo is out (the red/black maple leaf with a player on top).

Oh, ok then. Imagine they did prohibit the Leaf? I may just buy one of the bad boys.

very impressive design, I definitely look forward to seeing these jerseys paraded in Van City next Feb.

I like it... very nice. What a bunch of stoopid hoopla about not being able to use the Hockey Canada logo on the front. challenged.

EDIT: Challenged? The filter changed retarded to challenged? Now THAT is retarded.

Very nice.... Classic jersey look... Let's see it win the gold.

shabbs wrote:I like it... very nice. What a bunch of stoopid hoopla about not being able to use the Hockey Canada logo on the front. challenged.

The stupid part really isn't even that. The IOC has always had the rule. In the past, though, Canada was able to lobby the IOC for an exemption -- it's been worn before in the Olympics. For some reason, though, they didn't push for it his year. The year the Olympics are actually *IN CANADA*.

The cynic in me thinks it has to do with selling more jerseys with the new logo -- I believe it would be the Vancouver Olympic Committee or whatever they call themselves that would profit from this.

I could be wrong but I believe a little greed is involved.

Heh. Isn't it always about money... I guess where the profits go must have factored there... perhaps Hockey Canada got more if the logo was on the front?