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Send White Jerseys Home
by Alanah McGinley on 03/14/08 at 12:27 PM ET
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from Terry Frei at ESPN,
[Montreal Canadiens owner George Gillett Jr.] said that because of a couple of requests from the teams involved, the Canadiens arranged to take and wear their red jerseys—in this era, considered part of the NHL’s home uniform—at all four stops on the trip.
Why? Because the red jerseys more colorfully highlight the tradition of the Bleu, Blanc et Rouge.
That’s the most glaring example of why the NHL should go back to having visiting teams wear their “dark” uniforms at every stop. This is another instance when the post-expansion era had it right: White at home, dark on the road was the system from the early 1970s to 2003, and the league should go back to it.
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