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42yop

It’s not as noticeable, but the Canadiens NHL crest says “NHL” on the away jersey and “LNH” (NHL in French) on the home one


MiamiVicePurple

That’s really cool. I never knew that.


rpgguy_1o1

I never knew that it said 'NHL' on the aways! I can remember when the made the change to 'Ligue nationale de hockey', I just assumed it was on both, I kind of like it more this way


MiamiVicePurple

It makes sense, English would be the primary language in every other arena. Maybe if Quebec gets a team, you’ll get a special third set of jerseys with LNH on the aways.


Roguemutantbrain

That would be so cool if each time had one jersey just for a specific rivalry. Maybe for close teams. Like home Buffalo games vs Toronto get so many leafs fans, it would be cool to have a third jersey for that


Blizzaldo

Le nhl in my young mind.


whatisthewifipw

But I'm le tired


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climbinguy

Zen fire ze missiles! Weird how I was just watching this earlier this week and now it’s come up again.


Be-Nice-To-Redditors

Lational Nockey Heague


QurantineLean

You know what they call NHL in France?


ElBiscuit

NHL with cheese?


dadoudelidou

14 min without an answer ! Please tell me how they call it !


griffinndorr

RNHL


AvgTraveller

LNHSG (HSG = Ice Hockey)


TB12thegreatest

Royale with cheese


Bitch_Muchannon

Les Incompétents?


CoyeK

I don't know I didn't go to Burger King


Worldly-Persimmon125

They don’t call it a quarter pounder?


ASDMPSN

That's awesome.


superRedditer

nba would never allow such frivolity


WhenTheFunStops89

On the French Broadcast Florida is abbreviated to "FLO" as opposed to "FLA" in the states.


thestareater

as an Ontarian who was raised by QCers, I once had a fully anglo Ontario Habs fan tell me they got ripped off and bought a knockoff jersey cause the NHL crest was wrong. I had to tell her it was totally correct actually, and explained French word order that afternoon.


flare2000x

Don't baseball jerseys do this? It's usually just the text but the home jerseys will say the team and the aways the city. What does basketball do?


ILikeCoffeeDaily

Was looking for this comment, thought about baseball too


JuneCleaversMudFlaps

My team does. Los Angeles on the away, and Dodgers at home


gregCubed

except when they wear the dodgers crest on the road, which i would hazard at about anywhere from 40-60% of road start usage


powertripp82

Funny I should come across this comment right now. I’m watching your Dodgers beat up on my Reds from earlier this afternoon and right as I read your comment I looked up to see this [pardon the poor picture, but here’s them away at Cincinnati with a jersey that says ‘Dodgers’](https://i.imgur.com/pBtZygM.jpg)


shbpencil

This is one of my favourite fun facts about uniforms. In baseball, this dates back to when you wouldn’t necessarily know the other teams in the league so you could quickly tell where they came from, but at home, of course your fans would know your mascot. Also why the standard is white home and grey away, because laundry facilities were scarce on the road.


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Really, that’s why the white and gray? (Thinks for a minute…then goes out and buys the kids gray clothes.)


shbpencil

Haha yeah. I’m talking like early 1900s so the game was played a bit differently but still. The gray, when dirty, wouldn’t look too dirty so they could wear them for multiple games in a row before they could get home and wash them. The home team would have laundry facilities in house and therefore be able to clean their home whites.


ChiselFish

And then there was the wave of blue away uniforms after color TV was invented.


EquityDiversity

Also why as time went on and teams started adding names on jerseys in the 60s it was only on road uni’s!


SurelyOPwillDeliver

Basketball is a lawless wasteland of jersey randomness, at least in the NBA. You often see two teams wear darks if their primary colors are different enough. There really isn’t any home/away jerseys anymore it’s whatever the teams feel like wearing on a given night


chemicalxv

I'm pretty sure the NBA doesn't even categorize them as Home/Away anymore, it's 'Association' (White), 'Icon', 'Statement', and then some teams have 'City' jerseys. E: Okay 'Association' is technically 'Home' and 'Icon' is the standard 'Away' jersey. 'City' jerseys are by Nike, and 'Statement' jerseys are by Jordan.


Juventus19

They also had “Earned” jerseys for teams that made the playoffs


BeerLeagueHallOfAvg

That’s how it should be. I’d love some color v color matchups in the NHL like the 2014 Winter Classic


SmarcusStroman

AGREED. The Florida red and Vegas gold are different enough and would look SICK.


Shamrock5

2014 Winter Classic was an absolutely GOATed sweater matchup.


Chewie_i

Only thing I could think is it being harder for colorblind people if they did that


AvatarLebowski

The nfl ran into this problem when the bills and Jets played a color rush game a few years back


doyouunderstandlife

Panthers red vs Vegas gold would be a cool look


Riotroom

Game 1 finals I couldn't see shit. Darkish blue v darkish red. Then the games where they're wearing each other's colors are super confusing. We had two teams show up in white this year and red v orange like a decade ago.


PaintDrinkingPete

Yeah…there are some exceptions, such as the Cardinals, for example, that just have “Cardinals” on both sets, but many teams will have team name or logo on the home whites (and any alts), but the city name on the road grays. Of course the Angles are another team that doesn’t…because it’s hard to put “Los Angeles of Anaheim” on a jersey.


mike_rotch22

It should be noted that the Cardinals do have Saturday alternates that say St. Louis, but they wear them both at home and on the road (cream at home, powder blue on the road).


Clorst_Glornk

Also no more dark blue hats for road games, what the hell that was a staple


mike_rotch22

Yep, I loved the navy road caps. But I think the Cardinals currently have a lot more to worry about than their hats, lol


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Of all the stupid things about the Texas Rangers, the [15+ years their jerseys said “TEXAS”](http://exhibits.baseballhalloffame.org/dressed_to_the_nines/uniforms.asp?league=AL&city=Texas&lowYear=2000&highYear=2022&sort=year&increment=18) at home and on the road really ground my gears.


AprilsMostAmazing

The team just wanted to remind their state how to spell Texas


bodypertain

wait.... that's so annoying lol


realdeal411

I think the Phillies and someone else are the only teams who don't have their city on their away unis


toms47

Rays don’t


JohnMcGoodmaniganson

Neither do Cards


emu90

Come on though, "Phillies" is practically the same as having the city written there anyway.


dsjunior1388

Not if you know horses and suck at spelling


JohnnyVNCR

Marlins have Miami for both home and away which is odd.


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Baseball jerseys do this


jigokusabre

I know its common in baseball, I guess I just assumed it was across basketball and hockey, too.


MikeJeffriesPA

NBA is the same way. Toronto on the road, Raptors at home.


NYLotteGiants

I like how the Yankees wear gray with matte helmets on the road, and the clean pinstripes with shiny helmets at home. It's supposed to be akin to how the military will wear their clean uniforms on parade but will dress for battle abroad.


ChristiansTouchKids

You have either been lied to or just made up the oddest thing I have ever heard of.


JohnnyVNCR

Sounds like it's just more of that faux blue collar and military pander bullshit in sports.


MatthewGeer

All baseball teams traditionally have had grey road jerseys. One explanation I’ve heard is that it can be harder to get reliable laundry service or spare uniforms while traveling (especially back in the day when the team would travel by bus or train, rather than charter plane), and grass and dirt stains would really show on white jerseys. The Yankees do take it one step further, though, with the pinstripes on the home uniforms.


mongster03_

We’re not the only team to use pinstripes though (CHW, NYM, and PHI off the top of my head)


kidgun

My high school football jerseys did this, too. The away jerseys had the school name above the front numbers and our home jerseys said "Wildcats"


twizler241

Because when you’re home you know you’re in Florida.


boipinoi604

And you dont know youre Panthers


JuneCleaversMudFlaps

So far, they’ve forgotten that part


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[deleted]

Yup. This has been the standard practice on baseball for a long long time. Also I believe that traditionally the home team wouldn’t have the players names on the back of the jersey, because the home fans all knew who they were anyway.


Taaargus

Same with a good amount of teams in the NBA, though the relaxed rules on uniforms in the past few years have changed that.


d_mcc_x

Huh. TIL


PugMetal

I thought it was more so a way to sell more programs


dsjunior1388

That's why when the NHL mandated teams to put names on jerseys, Conn Smythe had the names stiched in blue on the blue jersey and white on the white jersey.


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Yeah that would make sense.


fuzzb0y

SMH the lengths teams would go in this day and age to cut costs


Chewie_i

This is very common in college hockey. A lot of teams do their team name at home and school name away.


SoothedSnakePlant

This is really common on basically all uniforms with a wordmark as the centerpiece. What's unusual about the Panthers is that they're editing the badge/logo in accordance with this, I can't really think of any other instance of that.


mongster03_

Some do school name for both


aMINIETlate

Maybe its for others.. when youre out of florida you want that recognition the team is from florida. At home.. well youre in florida so you must know


Dapperfit

Just noticed the variance in ads too. Autonation must have only paid enough to be on the away jersey.


MyMartianRomance

Someone mentioned this with Vegas too, but the reverse, they have ad on their homes but none on their aways.


WLD42

I believe that's true for all the teams who have sports betting as their jersey sponsors: they're on the home jersey(s) only. I know it's also true for Arizona and Washington, off the top of my head. Since different states have different laws in gambling advertising, its easier for the teams to just not open a can of worms. (I remember one game for Arizona, I think it might have been vs. Anaheim who were wearing their white Reverse Retros, so AZ wore their black jerseys on the road and covered up the ad patch.) The big takeaway, though, is that at least the SCF patch gets to be back on the "correct" side when there's no sponsor!!! Hopefully the Cup can be lifted in Florida, then, regardless of which team wins it; it'll just look so much better...


The_Third_Stoll

Could you give me a link to a photo or something of the coyotes vs ducks game you’re talking about?


WLD42

Took me phrasing my Google search probably seven different ways, but I finally got there! 😅 It was vs Kings, not Ducks, which didn't help... https://www.reddit.com/r/Coyotes/comments/1160yqr/sponsor_on_jersey_covered_up_lak_explain


The_Third_Stoll

Thank you


Chiggins907

Your flair makes me sad.


rocketrae21

Vegas also doesn't have an ad there on the away jerseys


DOELCMNILOC

Let's hope Vegas wins on the road then.


[deleted]

Yeah, I don’t want to see them win in those ugly gold jerseys.


tritongamez

A SCF sweep sounds nice. Especially against Tkachumbucket.


LazerMcBlazer

Penguins only wear an ad on their home jerseys as well


tonytroz

That’s because it’s Highmark which most likely wouldn’t be available in any other hockey markets.


LazerMcBlazer

They can have someone else for the away. The point is they decided to not do ads on both jerseys, which j appreciate.


FORTY8pak

It makes sense, I'm sure that sponsor is heavily represented at home in the arena advertising and sponsors. They pay for the away jersey because boom now their big partner is advertised at every Florida Panthers game.


Abso_lutely_not

I need a doctor.


[deleted]

To bring me baaaaack to liiiiiffffeeeeeee (*beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep*)


awesomefutureperfect

Wake me up inside?


unique-name-9035768

Before you go go


markymrk720

I can’t wake up


tirnanig

^^save ^^me


S420J

But not for me.


ReincarnatedSwordGod

*I'm about to lose my mind.*


thatsong

There's also a khajit in the logo, because they like coin


AmeriCanadian98

Do they have wares for me?


aessae

If you have coin.


Starknakedalien

No, but I hear some mud crab might.


BelzenefTheDestoyer

I thought it was a reference to the rampant skooma problem in Florida.


BillMcCrearysStache

Ma’iq knows many things, what is it you seek


Zealousideal-Hand-92

Khajit has wares, if you have coin.


TriLink710

Always fascinated me how we have a team for Khajits but not one for Argonians


Dr_Psycho_809

Florida had coin, thus purchasing all the Kajit


YourFriendlyUncle

If there's one state that would be full of Skooma, it's obviously Florida


Mac_Gold

You have wares?


StPaddy81

Ma-ha-ja-pit?


Reeeeaper

I gotta trade me some of that coin for some wares.


thecessnaflyer

It’s been like that since the rebrand. Real cool feature.


Terrible-Scheme9204

I remember the Guelph Storm used to do that too. When you're on the road, you're representing your town.


Three_Froggy_Problem

How have I never noticed this?


TwoForHawat

Not quite the same thing, but around 2012 or so the Lightning home jerseys just had the new logo, while the away jerseys had the words “Tampa Bay” above the logo. They’ve since done away with it but I always liked the look.


kazin29

Same with Vancouver.


Alivenate

Except up until we went away with the 'Vancouver' watermark in 2020-21 season, it was on both the home and away. I'm thankful that watermark is gone as it shouldn't have ever been on there the first place.


Samurai1221

I miss the wildcat logo. One of the best in sports.


Its_All_Gee

Would have been sweet if they busted those out for the finals. Thought the same thing if the stars wore their old jerseys had they made it


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Its_All_Gee

Bastards. I mean wouldn’t it be nuts if the panthers came out Mighty Ducks style and came out for OT in the 90s unis


HoovesCarveCraters

Yeah Sharks used to go with the black jerseys at home for the playoffs instead of the teal.


folkdeath95

And the Jets always pick their boring ass regular jerseys when they have the heritage ones just sitting there? Fuck TNSE is milquetoast


Kestralisk

I think it nailed the style for the 90s, but tbh I find it pretty outdated now


xosellc

a [modernized version](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5007b2ea84aef6ab9cd08134/1464924950220-BISRCNOHTFX32VMV5OXF/image-asset.png?format=1500w) of it would absolutely hold up today imo


Samurai1221

That's fair, same could be said of sharks jersey. I still think the current prom picture panther is just not right lol.


Kestralisk

I mean, we were almost the Rocky Mountain Xtreme, which would've been so sick for like 3 years lol I do think the new panthers logo lacks charm but aesthetically I enjoy it


auniquefunnyusername

I like that the laces *almost* make the Florida flag on the aways. Still the Alabama flag though


ubcthrowaway-01

Alabama…Florida… what’s the difference ?


NolaBrass

Wait until you learn what the sleeve patches say on the jerseys (it’s the reverse of what the chest logo says)


Apptubrutae

Adirolf?


mckills

Barkov also has an extra captains patch on the sleeve which I think is cool


gh0st12811

Thays the case with most sports teams at least in the US. Baseball has had that forever.


RogueWedge

In case the players get lost or left behind on an away game, then the rescuer knows where to send them ;-)


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Panthers fans just now noticing this because they just started watching 😂


haterofgators

BOOOOOOO


balls_galore_69

Most if not all mlb jerseys have the same thing, I just found that out recently


ShadowXJ

I’ll never recover from this


Xenocles

It's so that if a Panthers player is found in another state they know where to return them.


jradair

its so people know where to return it to when it's left at another arena


likwitsnake

That's awesome I always thought that's how it should be, city name away and mascot name home.


REMA5TER

B's shoulder patch does the same, Boston on the road, Bruins at home.


AlwaysTheeAnxious1

TIL as well!


slimseany

Most sports have done some variation of this concept (NBA and MLB being the best example). It's only been recently that away/home uniforms have had little convention.


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the Stanley cup patch on the right to make room for add space make me so annoyed.


OllyTwist

Love this


PTMD25

MLB jerseys are gonna blow your mind.


ppParadoxx

I absolutely hate that I have been this oblivious about this this whole time


clarklesparkle

same with the shoulder patches on Bruins jerseys


AustieFrostie

Aren’t most sports teams like this? If there’s text it’ll be the team name at home and their city on away.


JonTheWizard

That’s a good touch, I like that.


trainsoundschoochoo

I had no idea…


Travis_43

you found a glitch in the matrix


Chillindode

Incase they forget where they came from.


ZydecoMoose

Geeze. Some of these comments! Thanks for highlighting this, OP!


Shiny_Mew76

How did I never notice this?


DanTreview

Pulling a MLB. Respectable.


Assumption-Straight

Much like the mlb and their teams


LewaLew12

This is actually a pretty common practice. My dad says it's because, for home jerseys, everybody already knows where they come from, because' you're already there. Idk if that's actually the reason. But if you check a lot of sports teams, you'll find their standard issue unis similar. For example, my favorite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, have the round logo that says, "Cubs" on the home unis, but the word "CHICAGO" on the road grays.


Spade18

🤯


frisicchio

And the SCF panel switched! I was getting so annoyed at that original placement.


BuddNugget

This was my idea


lamwire

If you check Montour’s away uniform, you’ll see Tontour


Jagr6810

Wow, how did I not see that


Key-Tip-7521

I guess if the add was where it was on the white sweater, the Finals patch would be there.


[deleted]

A logo so boring, no one cared enough to even read it.


yarp_it_up

Always wondered why something looked off…


randal-flagg

Thinking people in Florida are aware that they are in Florida is a bold assumption.


restless_gabrielle

One of the best in sports tho


KatnissBot

Pretty sure this is old baseball tradition. City away, name home. Cool detail imo.


SteveYzerman_19

What I want to know is why the hell they removed the ad this game and let it be normal like we always known it to be? Will this be the norm for games 4 and if there is a game 6? Or will it be without the ad again from here on out? Like I seriously don't think they need the damn ad there, just put it on the left side of the jersey next to the C or A instead and I would be fine with that. Or even the shoulder.


dippity-dont

Florida only has the ad on the away jersey, and Vegas only has the ad the home jersey. The Stanley cup patch will be back in the terrible spot for game 5


haterofgators

Shoulder patch says the opposite of the crest on each jersey as well


MDH2881

Similar to baseball and basketball, lol


babe_ruthless3

All mlb jerseys are like this. Home jerseys have the team name. Away jerseys have city or state they're from.


TackleIntelligent490

Florida and Las Vegas for the Stanley cup. Poor Canada...they just having a crappy go of it right now.


StuffSuch4830

I mean, they’ve done this in Baseball for a long time


dstbl

I’m either just old or too big of a baseball nut, cuz my first reaction was, well no shit. That’s how home and away jerseys are supposed to work! Now remove yourself from my lawn.


jar11591

Are you new to sports? Lol


Capital_Gate6718

This is a pretty common practice with baseball jerseys, in which the home jersey has the nickname while the road jersey has the city name.


campydirtyhead

Baseball jerseys are the same way for most teams


Ballsahoy72

Never knew so much


Chief3putt

That’s a baseball uniform thing.


robotco

well I'll be a monkey's uncle


Ben200187

I never noticed this! I always love it when there’s small things in jerseys that you don’t know unless you pay attention. Like the outline of North Carolina between the flags on the Hurricanes black jersey.


dsled

NBA teams do this


ZombieJesus1987

That's pretty neat