# Canada loses its Identity \[Hockey Jerseys\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 26, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176 "2009-10-26T14:00:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/1 "2009-10-26T14:00:37Z")
Yesterday, CBC unveiled the new [hocky jersey](http://www.hockeycanada.ca/index.php/ci_id/16980/la_id/1/ss_id/25001/nr_id/67087.htm) to be worn by our national junior hockey team at the IIHF World Junior Championship in 2010 in Saskatchewan. It is a green jersey. I don’t give a flying frick why Hockey Canada chose to depart from tradition. It may be Saskatchewan’s colour, but it is CANADA’s team and we always wear red. It is simply Canada’s colour and most of us like it. I suspect conservative influence to undermine the association between Canada’s colour and the colour of the Liberal party. They chose to introduce a different colour in a somewhat less high profile international event to get us used to the idea that Canada can be blue as well and doesn’t have to be red. Its going to be painful to watch Canada play in these games. ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/2 "2009-10-26T14:04:54Z")
They’re only wearing them twice. “Canada’s National Junior Team will wear the jerseys twice – once in a pre-competition game and once during the championship.” They’ll be wearing the red and white when they win their 6th straight gold medal. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/3 "2009-10-26T14:12:10Z")
Oh what melodrama. Did you throw this big of a fit over the mustard yellow jerseys for the 2004 World Cup? ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_A\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Kid\_A\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_A_1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/4 "2009-10-26T14:16:40Z")
Or the [black](http://www.icejerseys.com/images/olympics/canada_2006_jersey_black_big.jpg) jerseys in 2006. Now the [mustard yellow](http://www.totalprosports.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/team-canada-mustard-jersey.jpg) ones are ugly but it’s not a conspiracy by Harper and I typically blame everything on the Conservatives. ---
**Author:** ![Raygun99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Raygun99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raygun99)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/5 "2009-10-26T14:22:12Z")
I kind of liked the mustard yellow ones. I also recall seeing clips of the world juniors wearing powder blues back in the early 80s. ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/6 "2009-10-26T14:47:44Z")
Ahahahahahahahahahaha. You think a change in hockey jersey colors are a barometer of the EVIL CONSERVATIVES trying to destroy Canada from within. ---
**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/7 "2009-10-26T15:04:18Z")
Moved from The BBQ Pit to The Game Room. **Gfactor** Pit Moderator ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/8 "2009-10-26T15:32:23Z")
I don’t imagine the Conservatives are hatching a conspiracy to upset what years of tradition and certain pieces of legislation have dictated are the official colours of Canada. From this [Canadian government page](http://www.pch.gc.ca/pgm/ceem-cced/symbl/index-eng.cfm) on Canadian symbols: > [@](#): > > The [Canadian] flag is red and white, the official colours of Canada… > > Red and white became Canada’s official colours as a result of the proclamation of the arms of Canada by King George V in 1921. So a hockey jersey is green to honour the host province. I don’t believe the colour of a hockey jersey that is to be worn twice is going to somehow overcome tradition and rewrite all that legislation. Besides, if the Tories were really hatching a conspiracy to undo all that Liberal Party red, why wouldn’t they make the jerseys blue? I always understood green to be one of the NDP’s colours. Or, naturally, the Green Party’s. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/9 "2009-10-26T15:37:07Z")
> [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](#): > > I suspect conservative influence to undermine the association between Canada’s colour and the colour of the Liberal party. They chose to introduce a different colour in a somewhat less high profile international event to get us used to the idea that Canada can be blue as well and doesn’t have to be red. You were writing a really interesting post up until this silly, paranoid nonsense. ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/10 "2009-10-26T16:06:01Z")
No conservative conspiracy, but dear OG those are ugly. I’m not sure honouring the CFLs ugliest uniforms is such a great idea. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/11 "2009-10-26T19:27:49Z")
Green pride! Okay, the green jerseys are weird, but there obviously is a precedent, and honouring the host province doesn’t bother me. Conservative conspiracy - heh. I truly hope the federal Conservatives are making better use of their time than designing Junior-level hockey jerseys to subvert the nation. ---
**Author:** ![BMada](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/96bed5/32.png) [@BMada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMada)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/12 "2009-10-26T20:06:34Z")
> [@Cat\_Whisperer](#): > > Green pride! > > Okay, the green jerseys are weird, but there obviously is a precedent, and honouring the host province doesn’t bother me. Conservative conspiracy - heh. I truly hope the federal Conservatives are making better use of their time than designing Junior-level hockey jerseys to subvert the nation. i thought the conservative conspiracy is supposed to be for the Olympic clothing not the green Junior’s jerseys. The Olympic emblem was supposed to have like a big “C” on it like the symbol of the Conservative Party. [http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2056136](http://www.nationalpost.com/sports/story.html?id=2056136) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/13 "2009-10-26T20:34:14Z")
If Canada’s identity is defined by the color of its junior hockey jerseys… no, nevermind. The jokes write themselves, but I can’t bring myself to type 'em. ---
**Author:** ![Gorsnak](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gorsnak/32/7587_2.png) [@Gorsnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorsnak)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/14 "2009-10-26T20:59:47Z")
Green is the colour. Hockey is the game. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HongKongFooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c4cdca/32.png) [@HongKongFooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HongKongFooey)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/15 "2009-10-26T21:22:05Z")
If Stephen Harper were picking the uniforms they’d be wearing sweater vests. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@The\_Flying\_Dutchman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Flying_Dutchman)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/16 "2009-10-27T02:52:39Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > You were writing a really interesting post up until this silly, paranoid nonsense. C’mon. I wasn’t serious about the conservative angle. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/17 "2009-10-27T05:22:51Z")
> [@HongKongFooey](#): > > If Stephen Harper were picking the uniforms they’d be wearing sweater vests. 😃 Okay, that made me snort out loud. 😃 At least they’d be warm. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 7:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/18 "2009-10-27T07:59:05Z")
> [@Gfactor](#): > > Moved from The BBQ Pit to The Game Room. > > **Gfactor** > Pit Moderator You Yanks just don’t get the vitriol and heated tempers aroused by the intersection of politics and hockey up here! Move it back! 😛 [QUOTE=mnemosyne] I’m not sure honouring the CFLs ugliest uniforms is such a great idea. [/QUOTE] Them’s fighting words! We’ll see what you think when the Jolly Green Giants are drinking from the Cup again this year! ---
**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/19 "2009-10-27T13:07:52Z")
You mean when the Larks are drinking from the Cup, right? You pick odd things to fight over. 🙂 I actually don’t particularly like the Al’s uniforms either, though they are much better than the Riders’! The Ti-Cats all black are the best, IMHO. Ninja kitties! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/canada-loses-its-identity-hockey-jerseys/515176/20 "2009-10-27T18:37:45Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > You mean when the Larks are drinking from the Cup, right? pfft. they’ll coast to the Grey Cup and then fold, just as in 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, and 2008. that’s the problem with being the dominant team in the weaker division. The Riders, on the other hand, have to fight for every scrap, and win when they’re not supposed to.