This week Team USA and Nike unveiled the sweaters to be worn by the Americans at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver next February, including a 3rd sweater.
Our reaction?
OrderedChaos:
A clean & classic look. The Nike swoosh is an unfortunate, but unsurprising, blemish.
OFB intern Andrew:
It is certainly a nod to the past and the history of USA Hockey, but I can’t help but think about the New York Rangers when I look at the white ones.
Gustafsson:
A classic in their simplicity with a nod to the past.
pucksandbooks:
The throwback white offers a classic simplicity and invites warm nostalgia, as a kissing cousin to the threads of Lake Placid. But of the other two sweaters, tell me there’s some functional defense for the queer-looking collars. Yuck!
What say you?
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I appreciate the throwback unis. Hopefully they can capture the magic of 1980. I will say, though, that they could wear pink mumu’s for all I care, so long as they bring the gold medal back to the US.
It is a shame about the Nike logo. But if we’re gonna have a logo, how about a local one? Say, Under Armour? I’ve always wondered how’d they do a hockey uniform.
Im guessing one of the white ones is the 3rd jersey. Seen several posts on this on various none say which is which
They’ll look a lot better with a gold medal around the necks of the wearers. Any chance we could get the back of one of them to say Ovechkin 8 by Feb ?. Gotta be somebody in State Dept could pull some strings.
@ BlackAces, I’m with you: would love to see UnderArmour get into hockey jerseys — perhaps starting with the Olympics or Worlds, then some day in the NHL. For now it sounds like they’re making a play for the NFL next year.
The diagonal white ones are a throw back to the 1960 Squaw Valley jerseys, not 1980. They are the thirds.
I’m ok with the jerseys. I miss the fancy USA logotype. Silly bureaucratic nonsense that they can’t wear that logo.
As for the collar, I have one of the original Nike Swift jerseys with that collar type, and I must say I like it for some reason. In fact, while playing hockey, I’m a very big fan of the whole Nike swift jersey. So light, moves well, breathes great. Beads water.
The style of the USA team is without a doubt a throwback to the classic style and the NIKE tag is symbolic of the Capitalism behind the team. I cant think of a better brand to spnsor except maybe Under Armour but they dont have that kind of loot.
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