Ok i have a question for you all.

back in the days of the flying v jersey, was it that the v was the logo and the skate was the secondary mark or was it that the skate was the logo and the v just a pattern on the jersey.
i always thought the skate was the logo and the ve was just there, but i was never 100% sure. does anyone know for sure what it is?

i would think the skate would be the logo

the V was the logo


The skate was secondary till i think it was 86'

The V was the logo until later on when they made the skate the logo.

Exactly.

we were so good we didnt even need a logo!

(cause you know when youre in the colliseum baby)

Yep.

when i saw it for the first time , i thought it was a joke, but they kept the uniform .

Took me a while to figure out the skate arm patch was the team logo, and the 'flying v' meant 'vancouver' .

They were the only team in the whole league (besides the rangers ) who didnt actually have a logo on the front of their jersey.

I am not sure the skate patch on the arms was even an original element of the first flying v jerseys, and that picture of (Gary Bromley?) seems to indicate this. I remember it was supposed to be very 'modern' compared to the stick-in-the-rink logo, and designed by a firm in San Francisco that had apparently never seen a hockey uniform before...

An interesting tidbit about the flying v:

- Stan Smyl was the only Canuck to have worn all of the Canucks' jerseys (that had existed up to his retirement in 1991). The original stick-in-the-rink he only got to wear in the preseason of his rookie year, then they "introduced" the flying v, which none of the players had seen prior to the game, at the season opener in Minnesota (where the Canucks' owners lived). As Smyl said: "I've never been ashamed to wear the Canucks' uniform, but that night none of us wanted to leave the dressing room."

Actually, the 'V' was supposed to represent victory - the idea being (as they were designed by a psychologist) that when you looked around the ice and saw victory, it would inherently lead to you being victorious.
Hey, they got to the '82 Stanley Cup finals in those jerseys.

And to answer the original question, the skate logo was the actual logo of the Canucks, and the 'V' was just the styling of the jersey.
The 'V' jersey is probably my favourite of all the Canucks jersey's, it's so outrageous it's cool.

Best Jersey Ever...

They should make a "Flying V" in the game tonight.

Trick or treat?

The colour scheme from the design agency Beyl & Boyd of San Francisco was supposed promote agression after the passive blue green and white of the original uniform.

The theory was the colour combinations were designed to intimidate - it worked. It scared the heck out of the Canucks players who had to wear them and provided untold hours of hilarity for the other teams in the league.


BTW here is a history of the evolution of the first three jerseys:
http://www3.telus.net/dmarchak/canjers.htm

Also see:
http://canucks.nhl.com/team/app/?service=p...rticleid=341298

iwant that jersey..

V was the logo

My god, do replica Flying Vs ever suck (quality-wise).

Hall, Germaine, Conway, Averman, usually Fulton

thanks alot to everyone that answered. i really appreciate the info on this one.

im telling you, when the canucks put it on and SWORE it was their new jerey, I nearly hung myself (I was 12 at the time).

Now, almost 30 years later, I would actually like to buy an original one off someone.

I want #23 gradin's jersey.

The skate was the logo. The V was just a striping design element, and a nickname for the jersey itself.

All of the team merchandise (penants, t-shirts, mugs, pucks, etc.) had the skate logo on it.

According to the CDC sweater history when the new jerseys were introduced this season the skate logo was the secondary logo.
1978–1984

http://canucks.nhl.com/team/app/?service=p...rticleid=341298