Canadiens test NHL's new jerseys

[SirJW 207]

Nothing new here but it's "news".

http://www.canada.com/topics/sports/story....040&rfp=dta

[D3nZ 0]

Yeah a saw some footage of them about 2 days ago of them trying them out. They didn't make a big fuss out of it.

[Aussie Joe 0]

9% drag reduction? Thats like when I offer customer's 10% off, they laugh at me! ;)

[LkptTiger 1]

LOL. Working at A&F, I get 10% off at the mall's food court; I usually don't even bother going through the trouble of waiving the store's "Associate Card" around to take advantage of the deal.

[Jason 65]

Hey, if we didn't make small progressions, we would never get anywhere. Use your discount card and at the end of a year you will have saved more than you think. Sure, these jerseys aren't going to make the game way better, but I'm pretty sure that they will improve the comfort of the players slightly and that is important.

My team recently bought new jerseys. We got pro style heavy jerseys with the patches on the elbows and such and they feel so heavy compared to our old jerseys with the iron on crest. They look great, but I get hotter in them and I just prefer the feel of the old ones better.

I have a new Team Canada Nike swift jersey. I don't use it for hockey, but I think if I did, it would be awesome. So light and airy.

I'll admit, I'm not crazy about the iron on style crests that the jerseys will have, or the fact that they might change some nice classic jerseys into modern rags (hopefully not the HABS!!), but we have to wait and see about that. So far I have quite liked what I have seen of the new jerseys. The All-Star game jerseys looked awesome.

[GSHL99 0]

Do I think the new sweaters have anything to do with the players? Not in the least. Gary the idiot probably thinks that putting tight jerseys on guys in top shape will get women more interested in hockey. I think they look queer.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

There was a bit in the washington post about the caps testing them last week at training. Also let slip about the caps color change coming up.

Reebok outfitted the whole team with the new form-fitting uniform "system" (jerseys and socks) the league is switching to next year. The guys looked much smaller, especially the guys who are already small to begin with. The uniforms were just plain colors, not the red, white and blue the Caps will be switching to next year.

Rumours have been abound here about the change, this seems to be confirmation that they are actually on the way, whether or not it was meant to be leaked out