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.............................. Vancouver Canucks NHL Hockey Club
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The Vancouver Canucks are a professional men's ice hockey team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). They joined the NHL as an expansion team in 1970. The Canucks play their home games in GM Place. The Canucks have twice made it to the Stanley Cup Finals, but lost to each of the two New York teams: the Islanders in 1982, and the Rangers in 1994. The team has gone through several different logo and sweater changes in its history. One of their first sweaters is now worn on the occasional "vintage night"; a blue rink-shaped rectangle with a hockey stick in it forming the letter "C", designed by Joe Borovich of North Vancouver. A version of this logo is still in use, as a shoulder patch on the team's current jerseys, with the team's original colours.
In 1978, aiming for a more "aggressive" image, the team asked a psychologist to design them new uniforms. The new sweaters consisted of a huge yellow, red-orange, and black striped "V" coming down from the shoulders (suggesting "victory", according to its designer) which, depending on whom you ask, is usually considered to be either their best or (more commonly) the worst sweater in hockey history (hockey writer Stephen Cole referred to it looking like 'a punch in the eye'). This "Flying V" theme was abandoned in the mid-1980s to feature the team's emblem on the front rather than the "V" (the emblem had previously been worn only on the arms). The logo consisted of the word "Canucks" in a diagonal slant and is part of the blade of a skate. The logo, with its laser-like design, was sometimes referred to as the "Star Wars" logo or the "waffle iron", or, more commonly, the "Flying Skate" or "Plate of Spaghetti". Eventually the yellow home jerseys were scrapped in 1989 in favour of more conventional white ones, and the triangular shoulder stripes which adorned the post-"V" jerseys were discarded at the same time. The new incarnation was worn from 1989-92, when a subtle change was made — and went largely unnoticed for the rest of the jersey's lifespan. The orange was switched to red, and the deep "gold" colour was changed to a much brighter yellow, reportedly because jersey-maker CCM no longer produced the required hues. Actor Martin Lawrence once wore this edition of the Vancouver jersey during an episode of his 1990s sitcom, Martin. In the mid 90's a "third" jersey was used, retaining the "Downward Skate" logo, but using a Salmon colour graduating to black near the bottom.
In 1997 the Canucks unveiled their new logo, in which a Haida-style killer whale (or orca) breaking out of a patch of ice forms a stylized "C". The logo has been much-maligned, accused of being a blatant reference to their parent company, Orca Bay. At the time, GM Pat Quinn discussed wanting to have a west-coast colour scheme, and overall west-coast themes in the logo; the new colour scheme includes blue, red and silver/white. Beginning in 2001, a new "third" jersey was utilized, with contrasting shoulder patches and a blue-to-maroon graduated colour in the body. In 2006 the Canucks officially abandoned their gradient red alternate jerseys and replaced them with the popular retro stick and rink blue uniforms from the 1970s.
Little more than halfway through the 2006-07 season, the Canucks announced that they would be changing their jerseys once again. While a report in February 2007 suggested the new scheme would be revealed on August 1, 2007, the new jersey was actually unveiled prior to training camp, on August 29, 2007. It featured the same orca whale design present on their previous jerseys, but the colour scheme was updated to their "retro" colours of blue, green and white. Additionally, the word "Vancouver" was added to the chest area above the orca. This move was seen as a way to connect hockey heritage in Vancouver to that of the Stanley Cup-championship team the Vancouver Millionaires, who played in Vancouver in the early 1900s, and wore a uniform with the word "Vancouver" on it. The actual jerseys themselves were changed to the Rbk Edge design, along with all other teams in the NHL. The introduction was largely greeted with disappointment from fans and sports commentators, who criticized them for looking like a copy and paste of jerseys from the past. The Vancouver Sun described the new look as "decidedly unpopular." On October 12, 2007, the Canucks switched their home and away jerseys, wearing the blue version at Edmonton and the white version at GM Place.
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