The 2022 Winter Olympics are well underway from Beijing, China (yes, that’s the same Beijing, China that hosted the *Summer* Olympics a mere 14 years ago). Today, I’m taking a country-by-country look at the uniforms which will be, and have been worn so far during the ice hockey competition, both
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Back in the USSR: Russian Hockey Team Wears CCCP Throwbacks
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, the Russian national hockey team was Back in the USSR this past week. To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Russian Ice Hockey Federation, the senior Russian national team wore two different throwback USSR/CCCP uniforms over three games during the Channel One Cup
Czech It Out! Whole New Look for Czech National Team
The Czech Republic National hockey team has announced a whole slew of changes recently including a new logo, new uniforms, and even a new name. Yes, after more than 25 years the “Czech Ice Hockey Association” is no more, changing its name to the more succinct Czech Hockey. Czech Hockey has also done
Nike Unveils All 2018 Olympic Hockey Jerseys
Nike today unveiled the jersey designs for all thirteen of the countries participating in the 2018 Winter Olympic and Paralympic hockey tournaments. The uniforms were all designed to be as lightweight as possible, in fact they’re calling them Nike’s lightest hockey jerseys ever. To do this there has been a
2018 Olympic Hockey Jerseys Unveiled for Canada, USA
The National Hockey League will not send their players to the 2018 Winter Olympics… maybe they saw the uniforms they’d be wearing and decided against it. Nevertheless the hockey games will still go on. Today the uniforms that the top non-NHL hockey players from Canada and the United States will
Team Europe, Your 2016 World Cup of Hockey Phantom Champs!
Team Europe, ladies and gentlemen! The team people expected to roll over and die, lose their three round robin games and completely forgotten about. Not so much, eh? A surprise run to the 2016 World Cup of Hockey Finals ended last night for the team of misfit players belonging to European
USA! USA! Baseball Team Wears Miracle on Ice Jerseys
Do you believe in miracles?! Well you better, because the Rochester Red Wings and Buffalo Bisons are about to pay tribute to the biggest miracle to hit upstate New York since Kodak colour film. Tonight those two Triple-A International League clubs, Rochester (affiliate of the Twins) and Buffalo (AAA Blue
SAP Announced As Jersey Sponsor for World Cup of Hockey
The National Hockey League today announced that SAP, a software engineering company headquartered in Walldorf, Germany, will be sponsoring every team jersey for the upcoming 2016 World Cup of Hockey. A SAP logo will appear as a patch on the shoulders: No details, that we can find, were made about
Team Canada Unveils Their Newest Hockey Uniforms
Just in time for the Summer Olympics, Team Canada has unveiled their new international ice hockey uniform. The uniforms, designed by Nike and unveiled by Hockey Canada at a ceremony (which I’m being told was) in Toronto earlier today, will make their debut during series of friendlies in Plymouth, Michigan, the first of which
“Illegal Logo” Forces Change to World Cup of Hockey Uniform
Who says logos can’t be serious business? The uniforms designed for Team Czech Republic to be used in the upcoming 2016 World Cup of Hockey was forced to undergo a bit of a change due to what local media referred to as an “illegal badge”. When the uniforms for World Cup were unveiled
2016 World Cup of Hockey Uniforms Unveiled
The National Hockey League today unveiled the new uniforms for the eight teams which will be competing in the 2016 World Cup of Hockey, to be held this September in Toronto. Six countries and two combination clubs make up the class of the next edition of the World Cup, the
First Look at 2016 World Cup of Hockey Logos
Thanks to a Tweet from the Canadian based Sportsnet television network, we’ve got an early look at the logos which will be used for each of the countries and teams in the upcoming 2016 World Cup of Hockey. It’s a combination of old school designs (Finland, Czech Republic), modern day designs (Russia,