[Dion]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

Did they really have a Helmet Night? That's hilarious!

It got banned by Jets owner Mark Chapman

The Winnipeg Jets are banning any fans from showing up at tonight's game against the visiting Chicago Blackhawks wearing a helmet — the brainchild of a local radio station to mimic the Blackhawks fan who earlier this month grabbed the helmet off Jets player Adam Pardy in Chicago.

Jets owner Mark Chipman made the announcement Wednesday at the MTS Centre to nix the "stunt," noting, "Whatever was planned was not official. It wasn't anything from us. We think it reflects poorly on the entire situation.
"It's almost absurd for us to participate in something that brought us down to the base act that caused all this."

Chipman said no fans would be allowed in the arena with a helmet.

The decision seemed heavy-handed to some fans and downright dictatorial to the radio station promoting the "Helmet Pardy."

"I guess I was surprised by the objection... because it appears to be strictly political," said Scott Armstrong, general manager and program director at 92 CITI FM. "Clearly it was more important for the Jets to show support for the Blackhawks than show support for their fans.

"We're not asking them (fans) to do anything untoward like pour beer on someone's head, like Chicago fans do."

The promotion, said Armstrong, started as a good-natured lark: a parody of the Chicago fan who on Nov. 6 snatched the helmet off the head of Pardy after the Jets defenceman had crashed through the Plexiglas. The photo of the fan, holding a beer and wearing Pardy's helmet, went viral.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/lo...232794891.html