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Hockey jerseys (or sweaters if you prefer)...they betoken our admired teams. As the cliche goes, you don't basis for the name on the aback of the jersey but for the acme on the advanced of the jersey.
Jerseys change over time, some are classic, others are, well, abominable and best are about in between.
Either way, we apprentice to adulation the jerseys of our admired teams and the memories they represent.
Here is a attending at 20 actual NHL jerseys (and one benefit WHA jersey) that we'd adulation to see aback on the ice. Feel chargeless to add your own choices, I'm abiding I've absent a few favorites. If you accept a articulation to a account of it, amuse try to accommodate it.
For now, aloof sit aback and adore the memories.
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OK, it's a WHA team, not an NHL team, but the Minnesota Fighting Saints had such a altered logo on the advanced of their jerseys, I aloof had to accommodate them here.
The animation angel/saint with wings and a beggarly face on his face aloof altogether fit the apostate appearance of the WHA and the asperous and tumble appearance of this team.
A jersey like this would be a abundant re-addition to the apple of pro hockey. Maybe the Wild could abrasion them aloof already to bless the Twin Cities' hockey heritage.
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I consistently admired these archetypal Dallas Stars jerseys. They accept the franchise's archetypal blooming and gold colors forth with their newer color, black.
The team's name and a brilliant are advanced and center, and the architecture of the logo and brim on the jersey absolutely are shaped like a star.
The actuality that Dallas won its alone Stanley Cup appellation in these jerseys alone adds to the able memories associated with this uniform.
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The white home Blues uniforms from the mid-70s accept the archetypal consciousness-expanding accept stripes and the ample dejected agenda acme advanced and center.
Players like John Davidson, Garry Unger, Red Berenson and Barclay Plager donned these uniforms with class. They aloof announce the aggregation logo and name so perfectly.
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The San Jose Sharks aboriginal jersey was a best agent in the aboriginal 1990s, alike aback the aggregation was accident consistently on the ice.
The azure blush was altered in the NHL at the time and the logo with the Shark bitter a burst hockey stick was tough, acute and again, different.
The black, white and blah colors assorted the azure altogether and clashing the avant-garde Sharks sweaters, the striping was aboveboard and apple-pie looking.
I accept no abstraction why the Sharks anytime afflicted them, but they should at atomic accompany these aback as an alternating jersey rather than the accepted atramentous third jerseys they currently use.
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The Penguins are one of those teams that aloof changes their uniforms every few seasons whether they accept success on the ice or not.
It's been abundant to see their aboriginal 1970s, crumb dejected uniforms acclimated as a third jersey, but I would adulation to see these mid-70s dejected jerseys appear back, alike if the Penguins didn't accept a lot of success in them.
Players like Lowell MacDonald, Pierre Larouche, Vic Hadfield and Jean Pronovost all larboard their mark with the Penguins in these sweaters.
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The Anaheim Mighty Ducks (yes, they were "mighty" aback then), were the aboriginal NHL aggregation endemic by Disney and called afterwards a kids' movie.
Their uniforms looked like they were taken beeline from a childrens' film, too. The Duck shaped goalie affectation in advanced of beyond sticks, the aggregate of purple, teal, gray and atramentous and the askew striping screamed 1990s and signaled a new era in NHL amplification to "non-traditional" hockey markets.
It would apparently be boxy for the Ducks to get permission from Disney to abrasion them, but it would be abundant to see Teemu Selanne skate in these abstract already added afore he retires.
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The Kansas City Scouts alone lasted two seasons in the NHL, 1974-75 and 1975-76. They abutting the alliance forth with the Washington Capitals in the abatement of 1974.
They were one of the aboriginal teams to use all three primary colors (blue, red and yellow) in their jerseys.
Players like Denis Herron, Guy Charron, Craig Patrick and Wilf Paiement wore the Scouts compatible afore they larboard for Denver in 1976. Today, they are the New Jersey Devils.
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The aboriginal Winnipeg Jets adopted these archetypal blue, red and white alley jerseys anon afterwards abutting the NHL in 1979.
John B. Ferguson brought this appearance over from the New York Rangers who had agnate uniforms during Fergie's administration as their GM from 1976-1978.
The Jets never had abundant playoff success cutting these uniforms, but they proudly represented Manitoba in them with some baby variations until they larboard for Phoenix in 1996.
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The California Golden Seals (or Oakland Seals) didn't accept abundant success on the ice, but they had some actual aboriginal uniforms.
In 1974-75, afterwards the alliance bought out buyer Charlie Finley, the Seals afflicted their colors to Pacific Blue, California Gold and white and added accept stripes agnate to those beat by the UCLA football aggregation aback then.
Players like Gilles Meloche, Dennis Maruk, Al MacAdam, Larry Patey, Jim Nielsen and Gary Simmons wore this altered appearance for two seasons afore the Seals headed to Cleveland and became the Cleveland Barons in the summer of 1976.
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The Vancouver Canucks are accession aggregation that has frequently afflicted uniforms over the advance of their history and admirers in Vancouver accept apparent their aggregation abrasion the good, the bad and the animal during NHL games.
The Canucks wisely brought aback their aboriginal blue, blooming and white uniforms recently, but it would be abundant to see them accompany aback these beauties that they wore during their run to the Stanley Cup Final in 1994.
The black, gold and red blush aggregate looked aciculate and the aggregation had success in these uniforms. Players like Trevor Linden, Pavel Bure, Kirk McLean and Cliff Ronning wore these jerseys and it would be abundant to see Vancouver accompany them aback as a third jersey in the future.
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The Edmonton Oilers occasionally use these as third jerseys, but it would be abundant to see them accompany them aback full-time.
These are the jerseys that all the abundant Oilers wore during their absolutism canicule which included bristles Stanley Cup wins and four in bristles years amid 1984-1988.
Names like Gretzky, Messier, Coffey, Kurri, Anderson and Lowe all wore these jerseys and became one of the greatest teams in NHL history.
These uniforms betoken the celebrity canicule of the Oilers and would be a acceptable accession to the NHL if they returned.
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The NHL's adaptation of the Colorado Rockies played in Denver from 1976 until 1982. They confused to Colorado from Kansas City and afresh confused to New Jersey and became the Devils.
The Rockies logo was the Colorado "C" on a abundance ambit with the aforementioned blue, red and chicken blush arrangement that the Scouts had.
Don Cherry accomplished this accumulation for one year and players like Lanny McDonald, Rene Robert, Rob Ramage, Barry Beck and Chico Resch all ill-fitted up for the Rockies.
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The Penguins switched from their aboriginal dejected and white colors to black, gold and white in 1979 to bout the city's added teams, the Pirates and Steelers. Both of those teams were acceptable championships at the time.
The Bruins, who additionally acclimated atramentous and gold, approved to stop the Penguins but it was bent the Boston authorization didn't accept a cartel on the colors.
These jerseys, as beat actuality by Mario Lemieux, were neat, apple-pie attractive and angrily showed the skating penguin logo that the authorization fabricated famous.
It helped that the authorization won its aboriginal two Stanley Cups cutting these jerseys abaft key players like Lemieux, Jaromir Jagr, Tom Barrasso and Larry Murphy.
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The Kings fabricated their aboriginal run to the Stanley Cup Final in these jerseys aback in 1993.
They adopted these jerseys afterwards accepting Wayne Gretzky in what was arguably the better barter in NHL history in the summer of 1988.
Modeled afterwards the Los Angeles Raiders argent and atramentous colors, the uniforms accepted accepted with hockey players and non-hockey admirers in the arena as well.
Besides Gretzky, players like Kelly Hrudey, Marty McSorely, Luc Robitaille and Dave Taylor wore these uniforms.
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The Hartford Whalers proudly represented Connecticut in the NHL from 1979 until 1997.
The Whalers originally wore archetypal blooming and white uniforms with dejected trim. The logo was fabricated to attending like a "W" with a whales account at the top.
Players like Ron Francis, Joel Quenneville, Ulf Samuelsson, Geoff Sanderson and Gordie Howe are amid the players that wore this appearance of compatible which would be acceptable on appropriate nights in Raleigh.
Cue up "Brass Bonanza" and adore these archetypal jerseys.
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The New York Americans were absolutely the aboriginal NHL aggregation to comedy in New York at Madison Square Garden. They lasted until 1941-42. In their final season, they were accepted as the Brooklyn Americans admitting the actuality that they still played their home amateur in Manhattan.
When the Islanders move to Brooklyn in 2015, it would be nice to see them use these as third jerseys or at atomic on one appropriate night to account the region's past.
The red, white and dejected colors with their affectionate stars and stripes would attending chic in any era.
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The "Big, Bad Bruins" of the aboriginal 1970s won a brace of Stanley Cups cutting these jerseys in 1970 and 1972 and accomplished the Stanley Cup Final in them afresh in 1974.
These were the Bruins of Bobby Orr, Phil Esposito, Wayne Cashman, Gerry Cheevers, John McKenzie, Ken Hodge and Derek Sanderson.
These Bruins were tough, concrete and actual talented. It would be applicable to see the Bruins don the archetypal atramentous and gold uniforms afresh in the future.
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The Minnesota North Stars entered the NHL as allotment of the abundant amplification of 1967 and sported variations on these archetypal green, gold and white jerseys for best of their time in the Twin Cities.
They afterwards added atramentous to the jerseys a few years afore they larboard for Dallas, but it didn't attending as acceptable or as adventurous as the aboriginal blush scheme.
Among the stars that wore this compatible for the North Stars were Bill Goldsworthy, Gump Worsley, Gilles Meloche, Dino Ciccararelli, Neal Broten, Lou Nanne and Basil McRae.
It would be abundant to see either the Wild or the Stars abrasion these jerseys for a few amateur as third jerseys to bless their history.
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When Jack Kent Cooke became the buyer of the Los Angeles Kings, he outfitted them in "royal dejected and gold" uniforms. Everyone besides Mr. Cooke saw them as purple.
It was absolutely altered for a hockey aggregation to be outfitted in amethyst and gold. Thankfully, the Kings accept acclimated these jerseys a few times a year as third jerseys, although I'd like to see added of them. Mixing amethyst and atramentous aloof doesn't attending all that good.
Marcel Dionne, Rogie Vachon, Charlie Simmer, Dave Taylor, Larry Murphy, Eddie Joyal and Luc Robitaille all wore these archetypal jerseys.
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There is no jersey absolutely like the crumb dejected of the Quebec Nordiques which the club so proudly wore from the time they entered the NHL in 1979 until the time they larboard for Colorado in 1995.
The altered color, the artistically shaped "n" with a stick and bogie at the end of it and of advance the fleur-de-lis, fabricated it bright that the jersey represented Quebec City.
The Nordiques had one of the abundant rivalries in hockey in the 1980s and 1990s with the Montreal Canadiens.
If Quebec does get an amplification authorization as rumored, it would be abundant to see them accompany aback these jerseys or a aberration of them. Players like Peter Stastny, Michel Goulet, Mats Sundin, Joe Sakic and Guy Lafleur all wore this archetypal jersey.
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When Oakland A's buyer Charlie Finley purchased the Oakland Seals in 1970, he afflicted their uniforms to bout his baseball team's, authoritative them Kelly green, California gold and arctic buck white.
After one division cutting blooming and chicken skates, Finley switched them over to white skates, which bare to be corrective afterwards anniversary game. The result, by the end of the season, layers of acrylic advised bottomward the skates and slowed bottomward Finley's players.
The Seals were the aboriginal NHL aggregation to put players' names on the aback of their jerseys and jersey sales did access beneath Finley, alike if the aggregation didn't advance abundant on the ice.
When the NHL bought out Finley in February of 1974, the white skates were gone, followed by the A's appearance uniforms, which were replaced at the alpha of the afterward season.
They abide a archetypal antique of the styles of the 1970s and one I'd adulation to see the San Jose Sharks abrasion already in a while.
