Vancouver Canucks: Adidas jerseys for 2017-18 season revealed

The NHL and Adidas have unveiled all 31 NHL jerseys for the 2017-18 season, and the Vancouver Canucks edition looks the same as last season.

As expected, the Vancouver Canucks made no changes to their jersey design for the Adidas takeover. Like, none at all.

The NHL and Adidas unveiled the new looks of all 31 teams Tuesday night, and let’s just say the Canucks were one of the least interesting “redesigns.”

The only thing that jumps out to me is that the jerseys look really narrow, along with the logo being much too low, but that will likely (hopefully?) look different in person and on the ice.

Since the Canucks made no changes, let’s take a look at a few teams that did.

Perhaps the most interesting one is the inaugural look of the Vegas Golden Knights, who will join the Canucks in the Pacific Division starting next season.

In a league that is dominated by blue, red and black, the Golden Knights went with a unique colour scheme. Grey — or perhaps silver like a knight’s armour — with gold and red is a combination we haven’t seen in the league before.

Everyone has different tastes, so some will love it, some will hate it. But the Golden Knights could have done a lot worse here.

Like the Edmonton Oilers.

Okay, I’ll have to admit, they don’t look terrible in the image above. However, the Oilers’ 2016-17 home and away jerseys were some of the prettiest in the league. The orange alternates worked well and helped create an excellent playoff atmosphere for Edmonton’s home games, but this redesign just doesn’t look very good.

Here’s a look at all 31 teams’ home uniforms.

The biggest winners of the redesign are without a doubt the Colorado Avalanche and the Carolina Hurricanes. Colorado finally returned to the design of the glory days, while the Hurricanes ditched their recent redesign that just didn’t work for them.

The biggest losers are easily the Oilers, along with the Nashville Predators, whose design is just a little too simplistic, as well as the Ottawa Senators, who could and should have made their 2016-17 alternates their home sweaters, along with a white version for the road.

Also worth pointing out, the New Jersey Devils decided to go for a new look for the first time since 1992, though their 1982-92 uniforms were basically the same with green striping instead of black. Most fans loved their look, but it was always one of my least favourite in the NHL. Glad they changed it up to a clean, modern look.

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For the Vancouver Canucks, that was a lot of buzz about zero changes. Oh well.