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Sunday Scramble: A Canadian miscue, New York’s historic run, and soundbites from the week

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10.11.2025
Here I was on Saturday night, the Edmonton Oilers game set to PVR as I travelled to do the Bonnyville Pontiacs game in Drayton Valley. I was riding high. A competent, strong Yaks win, and I’m thinking, here we go, I’m going to get home in time for the 3rd period. Should I start from the beginning?

Should I hop right into the game? I avoid the score, resist the temptation to turn on the radio. But my phone was buzzing over and over and over, and I was bombarded.

Then I look at the score. Let’s just say I watched the goals against, poured a bourbon, and focused my efforts on this ragtime column…whoops, this just in. The Avalanche have scored again.

Da da Canada

Give a team the chance to shoehorn black into their jersey designs, and they’ll take it eight days a week. It’s too bad the Team Canada jerseys swung and missed, but what’s funny is how bizarre they are.

Black on black? Why?

Why don’t the bottom bars connect? Why are the bars different shades of red and appear, frankly, Danish?

The detail within the maple leaf shows well from different perspectives, but I just don’t get it.

This design just reeks of being too cute. Last year’s Four Nations jerseys seemed cheap; these seem incorrect. The dark red of the home jersey doesn’t look like Canada-red.

Look, I’ve waxed lyrical about hockey sweaters in my brief era of the Sunday Scramble. I may come across as an annoying purist. The hockey sweater matters more than any other sport, and Canada is the ultimate hockey nation.

The jerseys should reflect that.

Team Canada has a closet full of tremendous national team jerseys, so there’s stiff competition. There’s pressure on the creative and graphic teams to produce something new, yet old.

The cherry on top was the press photos of McDavid and company airbrushed with them on.

Like any sweater, seeing them in live game action tends to change minds. I remain unconvinced.

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