The end of stupid birth year sweater numbers.

[Eleven]

This was it.  This was the last draft class eligible to use their birth years as sweater numbers for quite some time.  99 is retired league-wide and 00 is no longer allowed.  Since I'm generally not a fan of NASCAR numbers on hockey sweaters, I'm happy about this.

[Mustache of God]

[pi2000]

we need a thread for this

[WildCard]

we need a thread for this

Better than some of the other threads that have been appearing lately 

[Randall Flagg]

acceptable hockey numbers: 1-30, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39, 44, 47, 48, 55, 66, 77, 88, 90-95, 97

 

Underlined are goalies only

 

I can't remember why I put 38 in there

Edited June 26, 2017 by Randall Flagg

[Sabres Fan in NS]

This is great news.

 

Can we strip 87 from 87?  How about 88 from 88?

[dudacek]

I can't remember why I put 38 in there

That's the one you use for the call-up.

When he makes the team for good he gets to pick a number under 35.

 

And when a goalie establishes himself as the number one, he gets assigned number one, no exceptions.

 

This is really very simple as anyone who can yell at a cloud can tell you.

[Eleven]

There was an Ottawa coach, I don't remember who anymore, who wouldn't allow a number over 49.  I loved it.

[dudacek]

There was an Ottawa coach, I don't remember who anymore, who wouldn't allow a number over 49.  I loved it.

Should be 39.

And stop retiring the numbers of very good players.

 

Perreault and Hasek. Nobody else.

[Eleven]

we need a thread for this

 

And yet this thread gets more attention  than the HHOF one.

Should be 39.

And stop retiring the numbers of very good players.

 

Perreault and Hasek. Nobody else.

 

I think you've got to retire the number of a guy who dies while on the roster, but otherwise I'm with you.

[Brawndo]

Better than some of the other threads that have been appearing lately

 

Sorry :(

[WildCard]

Sorry :(

No I like your threads :lol:

[Doohicksie]

acceptable hockey numbers: 1-30, 31, 33, 35, 38, 39, 44, 47, 48, 55, 66, 77, 88, 90-95, 97

 

Underlined are goalies only

 

I can't remember why I put 38 in there

 

Nathan Paetsch's legacy runs deeper than most people realize.

[That Aud Smell]

The cloud-yell is perfect for this.

 

But we all have our slightly irrational hills on which we choose to die (metaphorically). 

 

You go, Eleven. You go ahead and rail against your birth year NASCAR numbers.

 

For me, I think I was permanently softened on the subject when, as a young man, I developed a full-blown man crush on #93, Doug Gilmour. (And I have no idea why he chose that as his number either.)

[darksabre]

The only numbers that bother me are Rip Simonick numbers. 

[Taro T]

This was it.  This was the last draft class eligible to use their birth years as sweater numbers for quite some time.  99 is retired league-wide and 00 is no longer allowed.  Since I'm generally not a fan of NASCAR numbers on hockey sweaters, I'm happy about this.

:huh:

 

The majority of kids in this draft were '99's. Only those that missed the mid-September cutoff & overagers are '98's or older.

 

Shouldn't this have been last season's rant? :unsure:

[That Aud Smell]

The only numbers that bother me are Rip Simonick numbers. 

 

Which I also enjoy.

 

There's some sort of symmetry between Eleven not wanting the kids to wear what they want, and your not wanting some old codger to prevent the kids from wearing what they want.

[Wyldnwoody44]

Is eleven rip?

[Weave]

Which I also enjoy.

 

There's some sort of symmetry between Eleven not wanting the kids to wear what they want, and your not wanting some old codger to prevent the kids from wearing what they want.

 

Never caught that.  Funny stuff.

[darksabre]

Which I also enjoy.

 

There's some sort of symmetry between Eleven not wanting the kids to wear what they want, and your not wanting some old codger to prevent the kids from wearing what they want.

Yeah but I'm right and Eleven is wrong so :nana:

[pi2000]

And yet this thread gets more attention than the HHOF one.

 

 

sorry, wrong universe.