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Originally Posted by browna
First, glad the font or at least the italics are gone. This was the last style vestige of the terrible pedestal jerseys and is now gone.
My guess is that the reason the changes will be minor is for the next update. Who knows the ins and outs of the Adidas contract with the league, but with no thirds for at least this season, there may well be a clause saying they teams have to keep a certain look for x amount of years. With some minor changes like the font and an Adidas logo,it sets the Flames up for the ability to do a more major change when the new rink gets built in the next 5 years and new uniforms for that, as opposed to a big change now preventing them from doing a drastic change again in the next set.
Owners felt strongly about the flags when they debuted. Likely feel the same way now. The original idea was to have just the maple leaf and the Alberta coat of arms and not the entire flag as patches, but the Flag Rules say you're not allowed to hack up the flag like that in this scenario, so they went with the entire flag.
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The owners likely feel as strongly as they did because the province of Alberta and it's black gold sqishy dinosaurs made them a gagillion dollars.