Everything old is retro

Retro is officially back in.  How do I know?  Clothes, cars and other fads long forgotten are suddenly cool again. Everyone and their mother is doing it.  But the surest sign is that companies and corporations are on the bandwagon.  And they're usually the ones who are last to the party.

Now there's nothing wrong with retro.  In fact, there are plenty of examples where retro is awesome.  Take for example some of the throwback jerseys in sports; more specifically, some in the NHL.  The Vancouver Canucks and the Buffalo Sabres are in their respective 40th anniversary seasons.  They also both have great retro jerseys going on.

However, I think the Canucks missed a great opportunity to go all out and do retro right.  What do I mean?  Well, during the preseason the Sabres played a game against the Flyers where there were no advertisements on the boards.  Sounds rather trivial, but I can't remember the last time I saw an NHL game without advertisements all over the rink.

The game looked amazing.  Don't believe me?  Check it out:



That is how you do retro.

Teeks

And so, it begins again...

Is anybody else super excited that the 2010-2011 NHL season is starting?  I certainly am.  Could it be that my beloved Vancouver Canucks enter the season as one of the favourites to take it all?  Perhaps.

Or perhaps it's been a loooooong summer of what could have been.  But I think it's more because of what was done by the Canucks to make this year the year of all years.

In any case, it should prove to be another awesome season.  And if it my short post wasn't enough to get you pumped up, the NHL's new marketing campaign should do it.



Game on, bitches!

Teeks