Comments on: Best and worst sweaters of all-time: Anaheim Ducks http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/08/best-and-worst-sweaters-of-all-time-anaheim-ducks/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:54:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: hyla514 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2011/08/08/best-and-worst-sweaters-of-all-time-anaheim-ducks/comment-page-1/#comment-15119 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:48:51 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=44909#comment-15119 “Their ‘Wildwing’ third jersey from the 1995-1996 season is the kind of horror inflicted by some ad wizards hoping to capitalize on their cartoony mascot and Disney roots. It was a terrible jersey.”

It seems like almost everyone has forgotten the original idea behind the third jersey program when it was first initiated in 1995. What the NHL had in mind was that teams would have two typical traditional-looking jerseys for their regular home-&-road set and a third jersey that was a little crazy and outside the box to appeal to fans who like that sort of thing. Within the context of that design approach, the “Wild Wing” jersey fit very well, as did the other four jerseys that were introduced that year (Pittsburgh, Vancouver, Boston, & Los Angeles). Everybody now looks back on those jerseys with heaps of ridicule, but they were exactly what they were supposed to be – crazy and wild.

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