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Prince Albert Raiders unveiled these alternates on Tuesday, and debuted them in their home game tonight

On 12/4/2023 at 7:00 PM, ruttep said:

Canes are wearing white helmets tonight - my guess is it's because they are playing in Calgary later on this road trip, where they can't wear red helmets, so they decided to just bring white.

 

 

Calgary will be wearing black as it is one of their previously scheduled Blasty games. Carolina would have known that before departing on the road so maybe they just decided to go white for white’s sake on this trip?

On 10/31/2023 at 7:43 PM, JohnnyCowboy5 said:

New 3rd coming

Looks like The Wranglers are teasing it now with a date of November 25th vs Abbotsford

Interesting choice for the Moose Jaw Warriors (WHL) to pair red helmets with their new white jerseys and black pants…which makes the helmets seem more out of place somehow.

As well, the Brandon Wheat Kings of the WHL have unveiled new Home and Away uniforms (a huge downgrade in my opinion). Gone are the unique wheat stalk stripes for a boring and generic look.

For comparison, what they got rid of

The Prince George Cougars of the WHL have unveiled new home and away uniforms:

A different pattern on the shoulders for these ones.

If you watch the unveiling video for these Winterhawks jerseys, near the end when they are hung up in the locker room, on the left hand side you can see what appears to be a red version of this uniform...maybe a third jersey yet to be unveiled?

The sleeve is red with the dark cuffs, and a thin grey stripe; basically the inverse of the look of the main home/road but with a red base. You can even see the shoulder patch at the top.

Spotted through the NHL Draft... The Calgary Flames have an updated logo on the front of their jerseys. The new one has some 3D texturing added to what was there before...a little reminiscent of the raised texture the Golden Knights first used when their jerseys were unveiled. As well, they have gone back to the more traditional materials of a double-layered tackle twill as opposed to a lighter textured material that was used in the last few years since Adidas took over.

Here is the previous version for a comparison:

As well, the jerseys are made from recycled materials and have a printed tag inside the neck and a sewn on tag on the back hem to advertise that.

The same hem tag could be seen by those with a keen eye on the Kraken jerseys worn by the players revealed at the Expansion Draft.

Stampeders Helmets

A look at Stamps helmets for this season.

Stampeders Uniforms

And a look at their home retro uniforms (complete with ad on chest)

I know the Montreal Canadiens had a trade in sale where they offered a discount if you turned in a fake jersey, but it would be really interesting to see what would happen if a pro team really, really took a hard line against fakes.

Not allowing people into the stadium wearing or even possessing fakes, not allowing players to sign fakes, not allowing vendors to sell fakes near the stadium or at team sponsored events, like their fan fests. It sure would be interesting to see how many people would be turned away or would have to surrender their fakes to be allowed in the stadium on a game day. THAT would make the news and draw some real attention to the issue, and it might be worth the possible PR hit to try it if you could spin the media attention the right way and have them cover the anti-American Chinese counterfeit angle rather than have the issue become the greedy team angle.

I heard some interesting news on the local sports station here in Calgary just before the Winter Classic when there was talk in the news about all the counterfeit material being seized in Pittsburgh. They put a bit of a local spin on it and talked about how this thing relates to the Flames. There are often times when a charity group comes to the Flames organization and asks them to have the players sign it so they can auction it off to raise money for their group. Often, the jersey they present to the Flames is a counterfeit and the Flames won't sign it as it is stolen intellectual property. The charities here that think they are getting something great to raise a lot of money just turn out to be a disappointment.

And if the knock-off item isn't spotted right away and gets it's signatures and makes it to the auction table, what if someone there notices that it is a fake? Then the price goes down and that charity loses out on potential funds.

Here is just another example of how someone supporting counterfeits ends up with another victim.