NHL AXES OLYMPIC SEND\u2011OFF EVENT THAT NEVER REALLY MADE SENSE TO BEGIN WITH<\/a><\/p>\nSure, we’ve got some classics, like Sweden’s “tre kronor” sweaters, but over the last few cycles, the sweaters have been, in a word, “booty cheeks.”<\/p>\n
I mean, what the hell were these winged monstrosities in PyeongChang?<\/p>\n
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For real, what was this? \u00a0(Photo by Ronald Martinez\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Well, the first two full sets of sweaters have been unveiled, with Canada and Finland showing off their home and away jerseys this week.<\/p>\n
Honestly, based on what they’ve got, I’m feeling good about the jersey slate this time around.<\/p>\n
Let’s start with Canada, who have uniforms cooked up by the folks at Bauer.<\/p>\n
Those are solid. I’m not crazy about the modernized maple leaf, but that patch with the lead and the Olympic rings? Dynamite.<\/p>\n
There’s even a black alternate as part of the set that is cool too, but kind of looks like a Carolina Hurricanes sweater.<\/p>\n
However, as good as those Canadian getups are, I think Finland may have one-upped them.<\/p>\n
Now, I tend not to like what Nike does with their jersey designs (they’re the ones responsible for those winged abominations). On top of that, I like the classic Finnish uniforms.<\/p>\n
Still, I really like these. It’s a cool modernization of the classic look.<\/p>\n
So far, so good, and surely more teams will be unveiling their jerseys in the weeks and months to come.<\/p>\n
It’s worth noting that while it may not have been an official reveal, Team USA players took photos wearing some classic sweaters this summer.<\/p>\n
Give me a white version of that, and Team USA is set.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Don’t mess this up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far so good on the sweater front… PublishedNovember 7, 2025 4:40 PM EST\u2022UpdatedNovember 7, 2025 2:58 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-279105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}