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Originally Posted by gvitaly
Russian for Greaser is Нефтяник, but this uniform is from the second junior league МХЛ-Б. The team is called Горняк or in translation miner(s). Anyways they pretty much stole the Oiler's Uniforms, both home and away... only god knows why.
You can checkout their site if you're curious:
Хоккейный клуб "Горняк" |
Thanks, I saw that jersey too, thanks to the Burke-cam, but would've never figured out where to even begin looking....certainly wouldn't have looked to the ECHL (or lower) Russian equivalent league.
So a mix of the Oilers logo and the Canucks colors....yeah.