[The Darkest Canuck]

screw the original 6.........this is where its at.

could that thing want to be an Oilers jersey any harder?

[tragicallymike]

actually the original sabres jersey was modeled after the leafs jerseys.

[The Darkest Canuck]

which leads me to this question...






WHY cratch:?

[tragicallymike]

yeah ya got me on that one? i have no idea.

[soquester]

screw the original 6.........this is where its at.

could that thing want to be an Oilers jersey any harder?

Weren't the Sabres around before the Oilers?

Anyway, I quite like that jersey... I wish they'd stuck with the blue and gold colour scheme with the new jerseys... It would have looked awesome...

[Roy-at-tth]

NASHVILLE!

WHO DOESN'T LIKE SILVER ON THEIR UNIFORM!

[The Darkest Canuck]

haha!


yeah, and the Thrashers have real nice jerseys too :roll:

[Chris Tanz]

re "leafs" vs. "leaves" (someone mentioned awhile back):

Who sez that the plural of Maple Leaf is supposed to be Maple Leaves? Maple leaves fall from maple trees. Maple Leafs are more than one of our national symbol. A Canadian flag has a Maple Leaf on it; two Canadian flags have two Maple Leafs on them, not two Maple Leaves. A Toronto hockey jersey has a Maple Leaf on it; the bag at the end of your curb has maple leaves in it. The Toronto hockey team is not nicknamed after foliage, it is nicknamed after the Canadian emblem worn by our World War I soldiers.

CT

[skippy the wonder dog]

Well, I'm unaware of any style guide that promotes the use of "leafs" when writing the plural of leaves used as symbols. The Oxford Canadian dictionary doesn't agree with you, either.

Canadian flags bear maple leaves.

[The Darkest Canuck]

that's why Canadiens is a much better name :mrgreen:

[Chris Tanz]

Well, I'm unaware of any style guide that promotes the use of "leafs" when writing the plural of leaves used as symbols. The Oxford Canadian dictionary doesn't agree with you, either.

Canadian flags bear maple leaves.

Boo! Boo! Hiss! I've got some sitting down to do with the people from the Oxford Canadian Dictionary then. And let's haul out the style guides and see where they deal explicitly with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Canadian flags bear Maple Leafs. The "Maple Leaf" is the symbol on the flag. The "Maple Leaf" symbol is a representation of a maple leaf (i.e. the leaf of a maple tree). A dozen Maple Leaf flags would have representations of twelve maple leaves, but each would have one Maple Leaf, and there would be twelve Maple Leafs on those flags.

Each player on the Toronto Maple Leafs is a "Maple Leaf", he is not a "maple leaf" or a "Maple leaf" or a "maple leave" or a "Maple Leave" or any kind of foliage whatsoever.

The foregoing is not so much "argument" as it is "Assertion of Truth",
CT

P.S. And, yes, "Canadiens" is a fine name.

[The Darkest Canuck]

leaves is the plural of leaf, it's really that simple.

[Chris Tanz]

*blood boils*

ok, you win. I'll phone up MLSE and get em to change the shirts.

CT

[skippy the wonder dog]

In the Leafs' defence,* who would follow a team called the Maple Leaves?

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* they don't have one, so somebody has to provide it....

[soquester]

Apparently, leafs is the conjugated form of the verb to leaf (ie, leaf through a book)...

Somehow I don't think that's what the Leafs are going for... In any event, I have no problem with it being Leafs....