News Article: How do you feel about an ad on the ole Blue Blanc et Rouge?

[beowulf]

Report: NHL to begin selling ads on jerseys for 2022-23 season

Starting in 2022-23 teams can sell a small ad on their jersey...about 3.5 inches in size and in the area of where the C or A would normally go.

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[Skip Bayless]

I don't mind it.

 

[Crusher117]

****ing hate it.

Disclaimer : I hate ads in general so this one actually makes me upset lol.

 

[shamrun]

Report: NHL to begin selling ads on jerseys for 2022-23 season

Starting in 2022-23 teams can sell a small ad on their jersey...about 3.5 inches in size and in the area of where the C or A would normally go.

Well that size is not too aggressive. I guess the recent revenue generated based of covid is forcing the league to get creative.
But it wont stop there. I just hope the adds dont get bigger than the team emblems.

 

[holy]

Hopefully the Habs sponsor the Habs. Need more Habs logos.

 

[Schwang]

Like "wanted. #3 centre who can take faceoffs. Willing to trade". "Bilingualism a must". Call Marc.

 

[Deebs]

It sucks but that's today's NHL. Adapt or be left behind

 

[Tonneau]

I could barely stand to watch the NHL over the last few years. Ads will merely guarantee that I'll never watch another game.

 

[SakuKoivu11]

Why? The NHL makes billions of dollars.

I can see ads on Arizona jersey. But not Montreal. Molson is rich.

 

[Adam Michaels]

I'm good with it. Knew this was coming.

Watching Laval games, where ads have been on the jerseys for years now, you won't notice them in the game.

It was the same with the helmets. It was a big stink. No one said a thing about them when the games were being played.

 

[JuicyHam]

Well it was bound to happen. The ads on AHL jerseys aren't too intrusive but still silly. I don't like it but covid really accelerated the excuses from owners to act like they don't make enough money

 

[calder candidate]

It is not great but as long as it remains small I have no issues with it.

 

[beowulf]

A small one like this or at the bottom back of the jersey I can probably live with. Just as long as it does not get to the point of some of the more crazy Euro league teams where you are not sure what is a team logo and what is an ad. Or like the quebec Semi pro league...no teams being named after a sponsor like the Saint-Georges Cool Fm 103.5

 

[WinterLion]

Please M. Molson buy that ad and don't do anything with it.... (then let it leak you did that and get mad respek)

 

[sheed36]

I'm good with it. Knew this was coming.

Watching Laval games, where ads have been on the jerseys for years now, you won't notice them in the game.

It was the same with the helmets. It was a big stink. No one said a thing about them when the games were being played.

I get why they're doing it but I don't like it one bit. I don't care how small the ad is gonna be to start but they should never slap a companies ad on that iconic Habs jersey ever. The Stanley Cup final patch or a patch to honor a recently fallen Habs great is fine but placing a companies ad on that Habs jersey is not fine to me even if it is small.

Placing a small ad on the helmets wasn't really much of an issue for me but placing ads on some of these iconic NHL jersey's is just so very sad to see for me.

I guess I'll be watching any future games after ads have been placed on NHL jersey's on an old black and white 4" TV so I won't have to see them.

 

[ZUKI]

It sucks but that's today's NHL. Adapt or be left behind

Maybe they can use transparent fabric for the adds ?

 

[expy]

Up to the teams, it's not mandated or anything.
It's also not explicitly stated where the ad will be.

The advertisements will be three-inch by 3.5 inches in shape, although it's unclear where exactly they will be placed. The NBA introduced jersey patches ahead of the 2017-18 season which can be seen on the front left shoulder of the uniforms.

 

[beowulf]

Up to the teams, it's not mandated or anything.
It's also not explicitly stated where the ad will be.

Saw that but the "example" jersey in a tweet I saw has it around the area of the C or A of the captain and assistants.

 

[Redux91]

Dont love it, but it was always coming

they have it on the basketball jerseys, its really only noticable on close ups at the free throw line

 

[beowulf]

An example Chris Creamer made back in 2015 at sporslogos.net

 

[habsfan92]

Helmuts & pants I would be ok with.
Ruins the jersey.

 

[OldCraig71]

Bush league move.

 

[Non Player Canadiens]

An example Chris Creamer made back in 2015 at sporslogos.net

gross

 

[BLONG7]

Bush league move.

Absolutely..........not good folks....not good at all.
Yes, knew it might happen, but man it looks awful. Helmets, ok, but not uniforms...

 

[beowulf]

gross

Especially when the add color is so different and pops out so much like the Rogers logo example on the Leafs jersey.