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Originally Posted by YYC in LAX
If true, what a total miss by Ken King and company. That's just awful.
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To be able to play exhibition games in a newly available jersey?
The Flames would prefer to have a bigger debut for their jersey than a midnight exhibition game.
The China trip is an NHL event meant to promote the league in general, and, my guess is the merchandising crew from the NHL has a bunch of merchandise for all the teams packed away in their trunk, ready for sale. Outside of maybe a few extra Bruins and Flames pieces, it's not the Fan Attic getting set up over there in those two arenas...basicslly a new jersey would not get any significant incremental interest.
And talk about an over simplification of the demographic; you're saying fans in China will buy something simply just because it's red and yellow like the flag? Nevermind the Flames jersey is red and yellow currently, with some black, but I think you have to give fans a bit more credit than that.