Tuesday Morning Fly By: Haunted By John Grahame

The nhl’s best jersey list there loses all credibility when they have put that awful Stars jersey at #4. I mean, isnt that the same jersey that most people said was the worst jersey when reebok made the new ones? Yuk, the other 4 are sweet though, replace the stars one with either one of Edmonton’s jerseys or Pitts blue jersey IMO.

… if we had Cyber Lindros.

Oh well, looks at least like I found a new fantasy hockey team name.

LOVE the DGB piece, too funny…
LOVE the FLYERS making the top 5 on the Jersey list, perplexed by the Stars inclusion, terrible jersey, but as previously mentioned…they (like us here, though perhaps to a lesser extent) are homers…

i dig the name bar, everything about the Flyers jersey emulates the organization and it’s pride. coolest and most creative treatment of a sports jersey.

Any future threats of a work stoppage are likely to be extremely unpopular with hockey fans, many of whom would take it as a devastating betrayal on the part of a sport they’ve cared for deeply since childhood. How convincingly would you be able to fake caring about that?

Gotta love it when DGB starts my day off with a good laugh.

Geoff, I find it interesting that in your article about Riopel you didn’t mention that he would have needed to sign a new contract mid-season in order to ever be called up, and the same applies for this year. If Riopel and Bobrovsky are splitting time in the AHL, it’s more likely for Bob to get the call since his contract already allows him to play in the NHL. I’m wondering the Flyers’ front office has some reason for only signing Riopel to one-way AHL-only deals both years, whether it’s a lack of confidence or a particular concern, or if it’s just their usual management errors. It’s almost like they don’t expect to give him a chance with the big club this year at all.

(For those who might care, you can ink an AHL player to an NHL two-way deal at any point during the season and start the waiver call up process at exactly the same moment you submit the contract to the NHL, so it doesn’t cause a lot of lag time if he were to be upgraded to an NHL deal in a hypothetical time of need.)

Hard as it may be to admit that someone from the Black Hawks did something classy, this is a really nice story… One of their assistant coaches brought it to the pediatric unit of a Monmouth county hospital in NJ yesterday: http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20100831/NEWS02/100831054/Stanley-Cup-at-N-J-hospital

“All three of my kids were born here,” Haviland said, "and so I wanted to do what I can to give back. It’s amazing to see the reaction, the way people’s faces light up.
   As Haviland walked through the pediatric unit, everyone stopped as the cup went past — young patients in pajamas and their parents, nurses, doctors and staff all clamored to mug with the trophy. Haviland obliged every request.

The Sweater link on the Dallas site was cool. Kudos for them.

My top 5 non Orig 6 jerseys (and to be diff I’ll leave out Flyers too):

5 – Minny – Alt 3rd Green Jersey – very retro,looks good
4 – Phx – Home Red, I’m loathe to give this franchise props for anything, but the Red with howling dog is nice
3 – VAN 3rd jersey – great color scheme and like the simplicity of the stick logo.
2 – BUF new /old retro logo home – the crossed sabres and buffalo was always cool
1 – STL Blues logo 3rd alt jersey, the Big D guys got it right.

This was actually pretty hard w/o the Orig Sux and Philly. There are some pretty bad sweaters out there…

I’m so happy someone finally picked a Lightning jersey in such thing as “The 5 Best looking jerseys”. I never thought that would be possible. And I’m glad they chose the road whites. I have a thing for road jerseys… I don’t know why…