The NHL this season is introducing the new Reebok Edge jerseys to all 30 teams. The jerseys are much slimmer, and reportedly contain a large number of technological enhancements that are supposed to make players faster on the ice. I'm not sure how much I buy that, but I think they look kind of cool. Many teams in the NHL have taken this opportunity to redesign their jerseys. As usual with this sort of thing, the results have been hit and miss. The Calgary flames new jersey seemed to have riled a large number of Edmontonians because they put the Alberta flag on the shoulder. I don't quite understand why people are upset. Sure, there are two teams in Alberta. Just because the flames are putting the crest on their jersey doesn't mean they are claiming that they are the only Alberta team! I don't really care if they put it on their jersey or not ... in fact it's kind of cool since they're obviously proud to be Albertan. The blue patch does look kinda funny on the red jersey though ...

The Vancouver Canucks' jerseys look pretty good. Except for one really poor detail: they emblazoned a large VANCOUVER on the front of the jersey! WHY? This text looks like somebody was confused at what city they were designing uniforms for and forgot to remove it afterwords. I love the colours of the jersey -- the blue and green look really good together in my opinion. The whale logo isn't my favourite, but the colours were cleaned up and it looks decent.

As for the Oilers ... well I'm not sure yet. They look not too bad, but they seem kinda odd. The vertical striping isn't so terrible, but I'm not the biggest fan of it. The elbows look rather odd too. I guess I'll have to watch a few games to see if I actually like them. We'll see how it goes.

As for the season, I can't wait to watch some games! The Oil made a huge number of changes to their lineup, and I'm excited to see what will happen because of it. I'm cautiously optimistic about our chances this year. The league is getting pretty even and tough across the board which makes it really quite difficult to judge which team will come out on top. I figure, we've got about as good a chance as any!

Heraldk