Canucks jersey ranked 17th in ESPN power rankings

I agree with their first choice!

I’m a Canucks fan and a graphic designer so trying to be objective here. I agree that the Canucks have always struggled with jersey design and I couldn’t agree more with the author’s comment about “Vancouver” looking out of place on the front. It seems so much like VANOC had a hand in this decision… “hey!, we hosted the Olympics. Let’s remind everyone that the Canucks are from Vancouver!” #17 is about right. We deserve much better.

Rivalries aside, the entire Adams, and Patrick division jerseys are all favourites of mine (google it kiddies), with Chicago, St. Louis, Boston, Detroit, Montreal and Toronto being the all-time classics. Philly is ranked kind of high for having such a Post-modern graphic (dated like the old Whalers jersey). The Canucks’ hockey stick is about as PoMo as it gets. 

Least favourites: Dallas Stars’ underwhelming type play and bland, black and green bruise colour scheme (yawn); Hurricane’s atrocious puck storm; Calgary’s modified Helvetica C; Panther’s foreshortened (spinal injury withered) cat; and Tampa’s seriously awful oblique, all-caps typography (which reeks of the owner’s grankids’ creation). 

Alas, I’ve not been objective at all. Give me a jersey designed before 1968 and I’ll usually be happy. 

The Canucks’ home and away jerseys deserve to be ranked where they are.  The blue and green are great colours and represent Vancouver and BC perfectly.  It’s the orca that has long overstayed its presence.  It’s time to make Johnny Canuck the primary identity.  The name of the team is “Canucks”, not “Orcas”.  The “VANCOUVER” has to go as well.  A return to the block-style numbers would be a welcome addition as well.

Forgot to proof-read and tried to delete this initial post before re-typing it.  Unfortunately, couldn’t delete it.  Sorry for the somewhat double post.