Nice stick

I like the Stealth better than the Synergy, and I’m saving up for the S17--think of it as an “O-Stick” that actually works.  Those orange Synergy Grips are OK, but that’s a legacy model at this point, and the grip is overrated anyway. 

I’m sorry, but I still see Ms. Milano as “Sam” from “Who’s the Boss.” It’s like the Olsen Twins, except that at least Ms. Milano grew up to be an attractive young lady instead of two anorexic Ethiopian boys. 

Put Maria Sharapova in a Red Wings jersey, on the other hand…

Sharapova in a Wings jersey?? Pfftt… you haven’t seen me in the Luongo jersey!

Boring.

Standard borderline-tart-wear with an expensive logo on it, apparently.  Without the logo I can’t see how it’s different than anything in any other overpriced department store.

(And you better not even think about those shoes until your concussion symptoms are gone!  I can feel my ankles aching just looking at them.)

Put Maria Sharapova in a Red Wings jersey, on the other hand…

You should have been around a few months ago when there was a discussion of marketing ideas for the NHL - I think Angelina Jolie in fishnets and a jersey came up then along with other similar ideas…

Ohhh...the clothes?  Yeah, you are right...standard ‘tart-wear’...indeed.  My guess is the NHL’s fashion marketing team is in a time warp in the early 00’s...and doesn’t realize we are in ‘08 already.

I still like the stick…

Nothing wrong with tart-wear—my wardrobe could only improve by such measures.  (*though it’ll be a cold day and hell before I’m convinced to prove that theory...)

And don’t worry, Baroque… I barely trust myself to even walk in bare feet at the moment. Those shoes would kill me.

**Incidentally, Sherry at Scarlett Ice has posted a bunch of photos of Milano’s fashion initiative with MLB.

Yeah, I’m just not sure that LA Kings top would be appropriate for a cold arena! Under a blazer or a cardigan it’d be cute, but then you can’t see the logo which...kind of defeats the purpose.

No, not so good in a cold arena! 

But I don’t think that the goal of logo-covered fashion is to wear it to the arena at all, but everywhere else.  Make a girl into a walking billboard and the NHL gets exposure beyond it’s small surrounding market.

Okay the purse encrusted with hundreds of Swarovski crystals caught my eye - haha good lord!

At least we know they are real.

Make a girl into a walking billboard and the NHL gets exposure beyond it’s small surrounding market.

In that case I want them to pay me.

Although I just hate someone expecting my to spend $50 for a $20 shirt because they did some slipshod embroidery or silkscreening on it.

That’s the thing that drives me nuts!  I’m a fireplug of a guy, so hockey jerseys, um...cater to my figure...but who the hell is going to pay $70 for those pink-and-white, silk-screened monstrosities that the NHL calls “fashion jerseys?”

They keep on marketing those black-on-black silk-screened t-shirts and hats to guys for $10 over what a regular t-shirt or hat usually costs, and I keep thinking to myself, “Why would I want to buy that?  $40 for a hat and you don’t know which team I’m supporting unless you walk right up to me.  That’s dumb...”

I support a team whose main colour is a primary one.  I want that support to stand out.  I want people to say, “Hey, he’s a Red Wings fan” before they say, “What the hell is that, a cactus on his face?” (my goatee is a little bushy)

Mind you, my fashion sense is suspect (my favourite colour is plaid), but I can’t imagine somebody spending extra for something that a) doesn’t fit right or b) panders to one’s gender.