I wouldn’t bank on it, but it’s almost like Alain Vigneault has been reading my blog or something.
New ‘Nucks dig old looks
Coach, players excited about retro jerseys for home opener
Elliott Pap
Vancouver Sun
Thursday, October 12, 2006OLD SCHOOL: The Canucks will wear their vintage uniforms for Friday’s home opener but if head coach Alain Vigneault had his way, he’d order them up more often.
The Canucks are scheduled to skate in the old duds 15 times this season. Vigneault loves everything about them right down to the stick-in-empty-rink logo.
“It’s a beautiful colour and a beautiful sweater and I prefer this one,” Vigneault said Wednesday. “I gave my opinion to Dave Nonis [Canucks GM] and I’m sharing it with you. I don’t know if I should, but I am anyway. For me, the Canucks’ old sweater is what it’s all about.”
Goalie Roberto Luongo has come well prepared for vintage night, too, and was practising Wednesday in vintage coloured pads, gloves and mask
“I love them, I think they’re great,” said the Italian stallion. “I like vintage jerseys in any sport so it’s fun to wear them. The old logo is simple but, at the same time, it’s got a lot of history behind it.”
Former Canuck Anson Carter had the best description for the vintage uniforms, saying they were like “a boutique hotel, simple with not a lot on the walls.” [vancouversun]
I forwarded this over to Alanah over at VCOE and have to agree with her. “Italian stallion”? She said she nearly spit up her coffee when she read that, and I can’t say that I was too far off the mark. Regardless, bring back the old school Canucks jerseys full time!
Additionally, Salo is out for the game this Friday according to the rest of this article. Groin injuries are never good and take a long time to fully heal. I would expect to see Salo bouncing back and forth from this injury all season, especially if it’s bad enough to take him completely out of a game in the second period. Hopefully he’ll make me eat my words.
It was never the ‘old’ look for me. Sure it’s nice but as I commented on VCOE… “this stick in rink thing is entirely new to me (cept for when they brought it back for the sake of being vintage what, like 2 years ago?) it seems so foreign and actually new… i don’t get a vintage feel from it at all. “MY” canucks i grew up with were in the hidious orange deep V … the colours were so bright they bled on our crappy old colour TV – godblessem.”
I actually wrote “stink” on my comment oops, typo… or WAS it…
Just as long as the skate never makes a return. I could stand to see the V’s making an appearance, but that’s about it. Afterall, I am a bit of a newbie, but you know I’ve always loved the orginal logo.