With all the player movement lately... Let's talk about how many current vs former players jerseys/tshirts I have. 2007 style jerseys/tshirts on. I could only imagine how much money some people lost on all of these trades etc. About half of the jerseys are authentic, the others are just replicas.
Current Tshirts
1) G (2x)
2) Simmonds
3) Couturier
4) Hartnell
5) Coburn
6) Voracek
Current Jerseys
1) Giroux
Former Tshirts
1) Talbot
2) Richards
3) Bob
4) Bryz
5) Carter
6) JvR
7) Briere (2x)
8) Leino
Former Jerseys
1) Richards (2x)
2) Pronger (well I don't mind this one)
3) van Rimesdyk
4) Briere (2)
5) Talbot
Until this organization gets their **** together, I'm done buying any sort of player apparel for a long, loooooong time.
Off hand I'd guess that I have a couple of dozen Flyers jerseys -- Sirtseys, etc. not included -- of which, as I said only two Giroux and one Pronger are current players (if we want to count Pronger)... and now also one Lecavlier. I have some retired Flyers that I can dust off and wear, and a lot of players that were ones I considered to be long time Flyers but were suddenly removed from the ranks... Richards, Carter, etc... I wear them when they visit as opposing players. I hate buying jerseys that I expect to get great use out of, only to get little use from... Such is the Free Agent/Cap Era of NHL Hockey -- one good thing about the Flyers though is that they do bring back players and I got to wear their Jerseys again [Knuble(2), Gagne(2), Recchi(2), etc.]. I hate to buy new replacement jerseys... but the flesh is weak.
... Speaking of which; I was at the Dicks Sporting Goods in The Marketplace at Garden State Park and looked at the Flyers Replica Jerseys... They are funny there as they do no discriminate in pricing between the multilayered stitched customization and the single-layered plastic-ish heat pressed ones, and in fact, I've seen the multilayered go for cheaper than the crappy ones... seems all the numbers are of the smaller than the Players wear sizing type. They had a Clearance rack with many jerseys from the two Compliance Buy-Out players... I was tempted by the Briere Orange ones but they only had the single-ply type ($50.00)... of the many the Bryzgalov Home ones, most seemed to be the better customization ones ($60.00 for either IIRC)... They were nice and better than fairly priced... but while I could see me wearing a Briere one of the better customization, I could NOT see myself ever wearing a Bryz one now (although I could if he were still with the team)... In any case, if anyone is interested in buying them for use or altering to a current player, there are quite a few there in various sizes for the taking. FWIW: I've seen past players jerseys of both type go for well over $100.00 at the Cherry Hill Mall Collectable shop that replaced B&C (I think it was IIRC)... and IMO they should be ashamed of themselves for such pricing for non-current players.
I don't have the $$$ to play that game so I did what i posted up earlier. Picked up Jeff Jillson's #29 gamer from a few seasons ago during the summer sale and got Denver Athletic to make me a MacKinnon name bar.
