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Ok_Top9254
@Ligue nationale de hockey
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Should be a rule for different coloured helmets at least
It was very difficult to watch.
Worst part was I found myself cheering for the states by mistake.
So stupid. Must be confusing for the players too. I hate watching Leafs vs Lightning too, but this seems worse.
Like Foxtrax
There’s stuff in the rules about this so it shouldn’t happen. It’s not like they didn’t know this was a possibility months ago.
USA should’ve done white helmets for this game.
Too many men!
Yeah this game was definitely a tough watch.
Spiderman pointing meme 👉👉
I really don’t get it. Seems like every other competition in every sport has figured this out.
Look up the 2014 game between the USA and Slovakia. The jerseys were even more similar in that game, outcome was similar as well.
I am glad you brought it up cause I thought it was just me. I guess it was pretty much all of us.
I may receive some venom here for saying this but, I think the US team should reconsider their jersey design. To me, and it’s my opinion, their jersey looks like some industrial league teams jersey. Kind of bland and boring. You’d think they’d come up with something more innovative.
It’s like watching Leafs or Lightning in their similar color schemes
Guys are we blue and white or white and blue?
All that to say, we better get red vs blue in tomorrows game.
These colors are absurd.
All teams with a red-white-and-blue colour scheme should have a red version of their jersey as an alternate because this is by far the most common colour scheme in the hockey world (USA, UK, France, Slovakia, Czechia, Russia, Norway). Russia, Czechia, and Norway all have red as their primary colour; these countries should also have a blue alternate jersey. A lot of other countries also use white-and-blue (Finland, Italy, Slovenia) or red-and-white (Canada, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Latvia, Poland), which makes it all more confusing. Only Sweden and Germany have rare colour schemes in using yellow and gold respectively, and black in the case of Germany (nicest jersey, not the best team…).
This literally drove me bananas yesterday.
Only slightly off topic, but remember when the NFL allowed the Bills and Jets to both wear dark jerseys and white helmets? For us red-green colour blind folks, it was literally impossible to tell the teams apart.
USA should have red pants like the 1980 Olympics.
Shoutout to team Sweden for always having unique colors and jerseys. I love the yellow in place of white for the “away” jerseys
The U.S. going lighter blue honestly threw a wrench into it this cycle
I had to turn this off, it was giving me a headache
one of them should have been primarily blue, and the other primarily white.
I feel like USA should have just been a dark navy blue instead, not sure why they went with this blue
Helmets & breezers should definitely be more different.
this was not an easy watch by any means
I thought this was a picture of the US celebrating after the game at first.
Smaller rink + everyone looking similar was frusturating
This isn’t even the first time this has happened with these two countries:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Slovakia_vs_USA%2C_mens_ice_hockey%2C_Sochi_2014_Winter_Olympics.jpg
The difference in that 2014 game was the States using white helmets, which they traditionally wore for in all international tournaments up until this year. I think there’d be a lot less complaints about yesterday’s game if they kept them.
That said, Nike bares a lot of responsibility here, and the designs for this year’s tournament were extra lazy or rushed, mostly just carried over from the 2022 games with a few added details. True will be taking over the IIHF contract after these games and since True has never really been in the jersey game before, who knows how that will work, but you gotta assume they’re watching and making sure the RWB teams don’t clash should be a point of emphasis.
If people can’t tell two teams apart then turn off your live game and stay away as far as you can.
Team jersey colors represent colors of the national flag and it’s not your pro dumbfukistan team which change colors and logos just to sell another jersey.
They asked Eichel about it on the Canadian feed and he said it didn’t affect him at all. If the players don’t care then it won’t change.