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<td class="bodytext" align="left" valign="top">On October 9, 1970, the Vancouver Canucks played their first game. Named after 1950’s super hero ‘Johnny Canuck’, Vancouver was thrilled to finally have a NHL franchise. It had fifty years since the Vancouver Millionaires’ had had their hockey heyday in the 1920’s. The Canucks blue and green uniform was marked by a hockey stick slashed ‘C’.<BR>
For the 1978-79 season the Vancouver Canucks premiered a dramatic new orange and black uniform with a vibrant ‘V’ splashed over the chest. Accepted warmly by some in the NHL, most mocked the jersey, even calling it “the ugliest and most gaudy in all professional sports.”<BR>
The radical ‘V’ logo was eventually replaced in 1985-86. The new Vancouver Canucks jersey featured a skate logo (taken from the arm of the former sweater). Still skating around convention, the Canucks replaced the traditional white colours of a jersey for home games with a vibrant orange on the ice of the Pacific Coliseum.<BR>
After the team was sold to Orca Bay in the mid-1990’s, the new owners tried to change the name of the Vancouver Canucks to the Orcas. After a public uproar, a compromise was met through a new jersey. Orange was replaced by more marketable black and white with red, blue and silver, and the skate was changed to the current killer whale logo, nicknamed ‘Free Willy’.<BR>
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<img src="images/thumbnail/8_54_1975JERSEY.jpg" width=125 height=172 alt=" NHL Vancouver Canucks - 1975 Jersey" border="0" align="top"></a>
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<img src="images/thumbnail/8_54_HOMEJERSEY.jpg" width=119 height=186 alt=" NHL Vancouver Canucks - Home Jersey" border="0" align="top"></a>
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<td class="artworktitle" width="100%">Home Jersey </td>
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<img src="images/thumbnail/8_54_AWAYJERSEY.jpg" width=96 height=151 alt=" NHL Vancouver Canucks - Away Jersey" border="0" align="top"></a>
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<td class="artworktitle" width="100%">Away Jersey </td>
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<td class="artworksize" width="100%">Hand Painted Polyresin
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<img src="images/thumbnail/8_54_1985JERSEY.jpg" width=96 height=141 alt=" NHL Vancouver Canucks - 1985 Jersey" border="0" align="top"></a>
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<td class="artworktitle" width="100%">1985 Jersey </td>
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<td class="artworksize" width="100%">Hand Painted Polyresin
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<img src="images/thumbnail/NHL_Vancouver_Canucks_1970_Jersey_504_29.jpg" width=96 height=150 alt=" NHL Vancouver Canucks - 1970 Jersey" border="0" align="top"></a>
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<td class="artworktitle" width="100%">1970 Jersey </td>
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email the gallery</a> to view more works by NHL Vancouver Canucks.</p>
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