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2016 World Cup of Hockey Jersey Teasers, Full Reveal March 2nd

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The National Hockey League gave us a glimpse of what “jersey life” may be like once Adidas takes over their uniform contract in 2017. A series of Tweets today from the league showed teaser images of three new uniforms for the upcoming 2016 World Cup of Hockey – Team Canada, Team Czech Republic, and Team Sweden. (UPDATE: Team North America, and Finland now too)

First of all, yes, there are three stripes. Adidas just can’t help themselves. Not satisfied by simply having their logo placed as a small patch somewhere on the jersey like every other manufacturer, they have to go that one step further and make their brand the basis of the overall jersey design. So as it would seem, in the eyes of Adidas, their brand is just as important as your country is. Pledge allegiance to that.

Three Adidas stripes on Team Canada jersey
Three Adidas stripes on the new Team Canada 2016 World Cup of Hockey jersey

And yes, I do realize this is nothing new, Adidas has been doing this for years in soccer, on the ice we saw Reebok throw giant logos on the shoulders of their national uniforms during the 1994 Winter Olympics, and Tackla (hey kids, remember Tackla?) was even worse in the 1992 Olympics when each one of their uniforms featured fifteen(!) logos in the design. FIFTEEN!

15 Tackla logos in 1992 (left), giant Reebok shoulders in 1994 (right)
15 Tackla logos in 1992 (left), giant Reebok shoulders in 1994 (right)

Back to the teasers.

Canada’s uniform looks to be incorporating a large white maple leaf onto a red jersey, stunning I know… these two teaser pics below, however, suggest that leaf may be on the sleeve this time:

2016 Team Canada Jersey Teaser 2

2016 Team Canada Jersey Teaser 3

 

This one below is interesting… primary jersey crest? The top half of an ultra modernized maple leaf? Whatever it is, it’s nothing we’ve seen Team Canada wear before.

2016 Team Canada Jersey Teaser 4

 

Skating across the pond, Team Czech Republic also had three teasers of their new look shared. Nothing too out of the ordinary here for the Czechs, their jersey crest looks to be the same national coat of arms shield they’ve been wearing for years:

2016 Czech Republic Jersey Teaser 1

 

This next pic shows lettering, are these the first two letters of “CESKA”, the local designation of Czech? Could be. 2016 Czech Republic Jersey Teaser 2

2016 Czech Republic Jersey Teaser 3

 

Finally, the team which has never done much with their national hockey uniforms, Team Sweden. The one nation who looked at what Nike was proposing for the 2014 Olympics and told them to stuff it. Seriously.

Well, that was their Olympic Committee, they won’t be involved with this tournament, so… time to get nuts!

2016 Sweden Jersey Teaser 1I have no idea.

2016 Sweden Jersey Teaser 2

Crown! I see a crown, maybe.

2016 Sweden Jersey Teaser 3

Well, at least it’s blue and yellow.

In all there will be eight teams participating in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, which gets underway in Toronto on September 17th. In addition to the three countries listed above – Finland, Russia, USA, Team Europe, and an Under-23 Canada/USA mixed squad will be participating. All the full uniforms and each team’s rosters will be unveiled March 2nd.

 

UPDATE (Feb 24/16 11:45am ET)

A new sneak peek, this time for Team North America’s Under-23 team. Uniform looks to use a black and orange colour scheme with a Roman Numeral 23 XXIII patch:

2016 North America U23 Jersey Teaser 1

 

Main jersey logo has at least a stylized “A”, perhaps part of a “NA” for “North America” graphic:

2016 North America U23 Jersey Teaser 2

The close-up of the collar gives it that old school Vancouver Canucks look, but it’s not:

2016 North America U23 Jersey Teaser 3

 

UPDATE (Feb 24/16 4:00pm ET)

Finland!

Also, another local country name spelled out? (That does look like it could say “SUOMI”, doesn’t it?) That’s a bad sign, we could be seeing some templating in this series:

2016 Finland Jersey Teaser 1

2016 Finland Jersey Teaser 2

We’ll keep updating this post as we get new images!