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Yet Another 3rd Jersey
by Alanah McGinley on 10/02/08 at 08:24 PM ET
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From Erik Rolfsen at The Province’s ‘Canuck Nation’ blog,
The Vancouver Canucks will unveil their new third jersey at the team’s Nov. 15 home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, team president and CEO Chris Zimmerman announced on Thursday during a luncheon with the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Promises of new Vancouver Canucks jerseys are always a mixed blessing. It’s like delicate plastic surgery… sometimes it all comes out okay, but one slip of the creative-knife and things can end up looking just plain weird.
So make fun of the current jersey all you like, I really don’t think it’s bad at all. And besides… there’s plenty of evidence that things can end up much, much worse.
Update November 13th: New jersey released. Official.
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Pure vintage for you, huh? Well, I happen to agree. (I really doubt they’d do it, but I’d love it.) 
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 10/02/08 at 07:54 PM ET
Maybe it’ll just be all white. Just to give the eyes a rest from their first and second jerseys.
Posted by Mike from NYC on 10/02/08 at 08:38 PM ET
At some point, your team needs to bring back the Bubla “V” jersey. They just must. The world won’t be right until they do.
Posted by Greg from Atlanta on 10/02/08 at 09:01 PM ET
I actually really like the jersey you have under “much much worse.” People always knock on old goofy colored jerseys, but I love em. As a matter of fact, i think I’m heading over to Ebay right now to buy one… It will go well with my collection.
Posted by Kevin from Pittsburgh on 10/02/08 at 09:19 PM ET
Mike -- You’re more cynical than I am.
Greg -- BUBLA!
Kevin -- Even the dark orange/red one? I know what you mean, in a way. It’s the crazy jerseys that I like most of all. But I think there’s also something to be said for the theory that some things are so bad, they’re good. And occasionally, Canucks jersey history has stumbled luckily into that territory. (After giving us 20 years to get used to the look!)
Posted by Alanah McGinley from British Columbia on 10/02/08 at 09:32 PM ET
I actually like the red and orange 3rd jersey as well. Looks *much* better than that purplish-black gradient one that they used for a bit.
I thought I’d heard somewhere last spring that the 3rd jersey for this season would just be the standard stick-in-rink…
Posted by Rod Templeton from The Canuck Nation on 10/03/08 at 03:05 PM ET
I think the jersey with the skate. but in vintage colors.
Posted by dale from vancouver on 10/05/08 at 06:24 PM ET
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Um, stick-in-rink, no lumberjack (that’s a rumoured look, Johnny Canuck, seriously), no 90’s throwback, no 80’s throwback, no “V,” just stick-in-rink. The end.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 10/02/08 at 07:37 PM ET