What Your Hurricanes Replica Jersey Says About You
by JoshCVT on Nov 15, 2009 3:52 PM EST
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PrintWalking the halls of the RBC Center, we've all wondered at times how to make character inferences from the Hurricanes replica jersey you so lovingly sport. Well, this admittedly incomplete post is here to help. Read on and learn.
Eric Staal (with 06 SCF patch or 2006+ with assistant captain's A), Rod Brind'Amour (2005+ with captain's C), Erik Cole (any age, male wearer): you are a Carolina Hurricanes fan with enough money to invest in a personalized jersey.
Ron Francis, Staal/Brind'Amour (older): the Igor Larionov-in-3OT flashbacks never really go away, but 2006 made them a lot easier to deal with.
Erik Cole (female wearer): helLOOOOOOOO, puck bunny!
Cam Ward: you are eight or nine years old, and your parents have been told that he's the grandson of a preacher and a good role model. Your parents know little about hockey, though, and even less of the common mental state of goaltenders. This will come back to bite them when you reach high school.
Tuomo Ruutu: you'd had your eye on it for about a year, but finally committed the $180 and retired your old Cole jersey to the attic a week before the 2009 trade deadline.
Chad LaRose: look, buddy, when you're 275 pounds, you shouldn't buy a jersey that makes people wonder whether you ate the midget that made it famous.
Justin Williams: you've had season tickets for several seasons, you kept the faith through the lean years, gritted your teeth through injury after injury to your boy, and this is how JR rewards you? People trying to sneak hard liquor through the security checkpoint should ask you for advice.
Brandon Sutter: this isn't your first jersey purchase, and you've watched a lot of hockey. Problem is, nobody who sees you at the rink knows whether the one hanging in your closet is Tanabe (bad) or Dineen (good).
Joe Corvo: Italian or from Fayetteville, quite possibly both. Far, far more willing to resort to physical violence than Corvo himself is on the ice.
Jussi Jokinen: you moved to Raleigh and/or discovered the existence of hockey in the spring of 2009 -- or there's a bit of repressed Dallas Stars fandom in you. You kinda like the shootout, but after the reaction you got from Sutter/Dineen guy, you're careful about who you share that with.
with apologies to the genre-defining Lookout Landing post
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I'll give Timmy G a try, at least:
Tim Gleason: if you ever met Jack Johnson, you’d punch him. That goes for the singer, too.
That 17-year-old Hokie sitting in the rafters in Greensboro didn't see any of this coming.
by JoshCVT on Nov 15, 2009 6:20 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
You have, so far, been fortunate.
The problem with Tanabe/Sutter isn’t either individual jersey per se. It’s that, if you have already bought Sutter a year and change into his pro career, you’re repeating the pattern of buying a young prospect that got you in trouble once already with Tanabe.
Adult CWard jerseys vary widely, and it’s tough to impeach that choice because even if he was young when you bought it, he was coming off the Conn Smythe.
That 17-year-old Hokie sitting in the rafters in Greensboro didn't see any of this coming.
by JoshCVT on Nov 15, 2009 6:49 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Hmmm. I actually bought the Sutter jersey less than 4 months into his pro career so that probably makes it riskier. Although, right now I look like a genius!
what if you have a brindy and a staal, but You REALLY want a sutter jersey..
i mean, who doesnt these days?
What's in my closet?
elskling and I have several hockey jerseys in the closet, including USA Olympic, Suomi (Finnish), and Latvian (Irbe) jerseys. There’s also obviously a few Canes jerseys, but of all our jerseys, only the Latvian Irbe one has a name on it.
I guess I cut my teeth on ACC sports, so am used to seeing the players come and the players go. I always joke that my favorite Canes hockey player is the last player that scored (so, currently it’s Sutter, although I also have a huge man-crush on Jokinen for the sole shootout goal). In fact, if pressed to add a name to the back of a new jersey, I would choose to wear the Sutter name with pride, for this is what hockey is all about.
My go-to jersey is usually an old-school white “home” jersey with two Stanley Cup Final patches. This is why we play. To compete for and win the Cup.
Those two patches serve as a constant reminder of the very good times that I have had within the confines of the ESA/RBC Center…even when the times are not currently so good.
I'll come clean:
Right now, my closet has a red 2000 model I bought un-customized and had the RBC crew put Cole on in 2003, and a white 2005 Cole I picked up cheap from a Dick’s in Durham a couple years back. I’m currently in tossup mode between Sutter and Jokinen for the black jersey I’ll eventually get.
That 17-year-old Hokie sitting in the rafters in Greensboro didn't see any of this coming.
What if I have a Stillman jersey that I refuse to retire?
by Andrea's evil twin on Nov 15, 2009 7:14 PM EST reply actions
It means you are just waiting for the inevitable. JR brings everyone back at one point or another. Just wait. LOL
don’t tease me like that! by then he’ll have lost a step (or three) and we’ll end up wishing JR had left him in Fla…
by Andrea's evil twin on Nov 15, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
don’t tease me like that! by then he’ll have lost a step (or three) and we’ll end up wishing JR had left him in Fla…
by Andrea's evil twin on Nov 15, 2009 9:54 PM EST up reply actions
LOL-that doesn’t surprise me at all LTD. In fact, if you weren’t buried in it, I would be surprised.
Of course, two years ago I said the same thing about my 2006 SCF replica Brind’Amour jersey.
Sisu
by Jamie Kellner on Nov 15, 2009 10:23 PM EST up reply actions
If you wear a Primeau jersey it means you need to turn in your Caniac Card.
by wylde4canes on Nov 17, 2009 11:53 AM EST up reply actions
what Jersey?
I have probably one of the few of these in existence. It’s about 10 years old. Great guy. It is a authentic (shirt off you back night) #14 Halko. Doubt you could ever buy one.
I’ll be in it like I always am (unless it’s 3rd jersey night) in Section 120 every home game!
What does that mean?
Go Canes!
Shirt-off-your-back night winners get a pass.
That’s a separate class from people who deliberately chose their jersey. As for some of the other questions above:
Josef Vasicek: occasionally, late at night, you go back into the dark corners of your hard drive and find that carefully-preserved set of late-night e-mails from college with the girl you thought you might marry one day. Though it didn’t work out the way you planned, and you’re not upset with how your life has gone since, thinking back to those more innocent days still makes you smile. You hope she’s happy too.
Keith Primeau: while JoVa guy was surviving on Mountain Dew, Ramen and dreams, you were making big decisions about your financial future. What kind of numbskull would invest in an online bookstore named after a river in Brazil, anyway? Pets.com is the kind of business that’ll set a guy up for life!
Pavel Brendl: mmmmm, forbidden donut.
That 17-year-old Hokie sitting in the rafters in Greensboro didn't see any of this coming.
Sami Kapanen jersey?
Probably my favorite Cane.
What about a Whitney?
I guess it just shows that you are a great judge of talent and personality!
What about a Francis Whalers sweater,
that was stolen or I put it someplace and it is terminally AWOL?
Or a Francis Canes sweater from 2002?
Also stolen/missing.
Or an Irbe sweater from 2001?
Also stolen/missing.
When all else fails, read the instruction manual.
If I ever bought a Jokinen Canes jersey, it’s because I still love him. He was my favorite Star before he got traded, and now he’s my favorite former Star.
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