Puck Daddy’s own Justin Bourne played for the ECHL’s Alaska
Aces in 2006-07, and passed along his former team’s new Valentine’s Day 2011
jerseys, which debuted on this Facebook page and will be worn on Sunday night
against the Stockton Thunder.
So we asked him: If you were handed this sweater on a game day,
what would your reaction have been?
"I don’t know I could take the game seriously, let alone
myself or my team," he said. "It would make a mockery of my whole career."
That positive, huh? From Junkyard Athletic, on their hockey gear ode to romance:
The Alaska Aces Professional Hockey Club of the East Coast
Hockey League will be wearing this specially designed Junkyard Athletic jersey
this Sunday night, Feb. 13th versus the Stockton Thunder. The jersey, designed
by our main dood Justin, was designed with a classic Valentine’s Day greeting
card look in mind. We made an embroidered Aces logo, as well as custom
SubliTWILL name plates and numbers to keep the feel of a traditional jersey by
sewing these items onto the jersey.
Some additional info from Marcelo Cordoba of Junkyard Athletic:
Fans fail to realize that the teams approve the designs for their "themed" jerseys; either they create designs and send them to us, or, we design and they approve. At the end of the day, they auction the jerseys off for charities in their area and that in itself is the best part of a themed jerseys program.
Somehow, this jersey ends up being way too much and yet not
enough. Stripes, hearts, more hearts, hearts on top of those hearts … too much.
Yet if you’re going to go to that extreme, why not alter the logo into, say, a
snarling bear dressed as cupid?
So, with that, we ask:
Pass or Fail: The
ECHL Alaska Aces’ Valentine’s Day 2011 jerseys.
Ah, but the Aces are far from the only team to have dabbled
in the pink around Feb. 14.
Witness …
According to Hockey Blog in Canada, this was the
Bakersfield Condors V-Day jersey from 2010:
The ECHL’s Bakersfield Condors broke out the candy hearts
and red and pink colours for their
2010 Valentine’s Day jersey. The words on the candy hearts actually said
familiar hockey phrases like "Go To The Net" and "He Shoots He
Scores". Perhaps the funniest part are the checkboxes for
"single" and "taken". At least Bakersfield knows how to
have fun with these jerseys. I’ll give this one a thumbs-up due to the great
work they did and the fun they had with the jersey. Well done, Condors!
Well, it certainly is … thorough.
The
IHL Las Vegas Thunder’s 1996-97 Valentine’s Day jersey. Very close to
being an
improvement over their usual duds.
Richmond
Renegades (ECHL) ’00-’01 Ryan Van Buskirk St.
Valentine’s Day jersey (Via
stolldog1960)
The 1996-97 IHL Muskegon Fury Valentine’s Day sweater. (Via MrMario66)
AHL Grand Rapids Griffins Valentine’s Day sweaters from 2007. [HBIC]
From reader Rob Oliva: An old Lousiana Ice Gators Valentine’s Day jersey, modeled by none other than Derek Boogaard.
The UHL Missouri River Otters
Valentine’s Day jersey, circa around 2005. (Via this
collection)
Laredo Bucks 2007 Valentine’s Day jersey, via Sidearm
Delivery.
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Finally … wow. This is from the Southern Professional Hockey
League’s Huntsville Havoc and … wow. From
the auction:
The Havoc are a minor professional "A" team
competing in the Southern Professional Hockey League. This jersey is tagged as
a size 54 and measures out to 27" from arm pit to arm pit. As you can see
this is a Valentine’s Day themed jersey and is a definite rarity! The
Huntsville "H" logo patch is on the shoulders as well as the Intergraph
sponsor patch just below the neckline. This is an excellent looking jersey and
is an authentic on ice jersey, just like the ones the Havoc use in competition.
Since this is an authentic jersey, the fight strap is sewn inside the jersey
and double fabric is sewn in the elbows and shoulder areas.
Looking back through the years … yeah, the Aces’ jersey is
still mind-blowingly bad.
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