It was speculated to be worn for one night time solely again in 2022, however the Prince Albert Raiders knew their fiftieth anniversary jersey was too good to gather mud of their locker room.
The Western Hockey League group has introduced again a fan- and player-favorite jersey from their fiftieth anninversary season in 2021-22 and added it to their everlasting rotation as an alternate jersey.
The jersey is predominantly black with a gold brand on the entrance depicting a cranium carrying a pirate hat. The collar is black with a inexperienced insert on the entrance and black laces. Inexperienced stripes lengthen out from the collar and taper towards the shoulders. The hem has a broad inexperienced stripe, whereas the sleeves have inexperienced and gold stripes.
The Raiders’ primary logo seems on every shoulder, whereas a inexperienced panel runs underneath every arm. The numbers on the sleeves are gold, whereas on the again they’re inexperienced with a gold define. The title on the again is one-color gold.
The brand new jersey is nearly an identical to what the Raiders wore in opposition to the Saskatoon Blades on March 19, 2022, throughout their fiftieth anniversary season. It was touted on the time as a one-night-only look, however Raiders enterprise supervisor Michael Scissons instructed the Prince Albert Herald they have been too good to not carry again.
“I think these ones were overwhelmingly well-received and thought of as unique and appropriate for the Raiders to be wearing,” he stated. “(There are) a couple of small changes. We put our regular logo on the shoulder this time because that’s another logo we’re incredibly proud of and changed the shading a little bit on the main logo.”
Each variations of the jerseys have been designed by Montréal artist Alec Des Rivières. “It’s really cool to finally see something you made in real life. I don’t really see the results because I just send the design off and they do whatever they want with it or they print it,” he instructed PANow.com in March 2022. “(The Raiders) sent me a jersey, it’s in my room. It’s really cool to see. I saw photos of the pucks they’re going to use for the game. It’s really awesome.”
Scissons stated that whereas a lot of the fiftieth anniversary festivities in 2021-22 seemed again on the Raiders’ historical past, the black jersey was meant to be a step ahead.
“We worked with an artist out of Montreal, who we gave some direction to what we’d consider a futuristic pirate look, something that would take us into the next 50 years. This is what he came up with,” he stated. “We made a couple of small changes, but here they are today now as our permanent third jerseys.”
The Raiders wore the brand new jerseys at residence in opposition to the Calgary Hitmen on Friday, December 8, a sport they received 4-3. Ahead Ryder Ritchie was a giant fan.
“I love ’em. I wish we could wear them more,” he stated in a video posted to the Raiders’ website after the sport. “I think we look mean in black. I love the jerseys; they did a great job with those.”
