Junior Team to Wear WHA Throwback Jerseys

The Vancouver Giants of the Western Hockey League will be honouring a long forgotten professional team which used to call the city home.

This weekend the Giants will wear the yellow and red uniforms of the World Hockey Association’s Vancouver Blazers, who played during the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons, inheriting their identity from the relocated Philadelphia Blazers. Vancouver relocated to Calgary for 1975-76 where they were renamed the Cowboys.

The Giants, who play in the same arena in which the Blazers did, are wearing the jerseys as part of Legends Night, Hockey Hall of Famer Yvan Cournoyer will be in attendance.

While similar, the uniforms aren’t an exact match — the Blazers never wore their city name on their jersey, player numbers were also on the shoulder rather than on the sleeves.

The Giants won’t be the first to honour the Blazers franchise, the AHL’s Philadelphia Phantoms wore similarly incorrect versions of the Blazers uniforms in a game back in April 2005.