Picture from New Year's Eve skate
I think most people can get away with wearing a personalized NHL jersey as long as it isnt' Gretzky, Mario, Sid, or Ovy and you're not being all Massengill.
I've got a buddy who's got nothing but Sabres gear and some authentic player jerseys he picked up somehow. Helmet to socks home and away. He gets crap all the time just because of how inept the Sabres were last year but that's it.
Conversely, there's this younger guy head to foot road or away in Toews kit. One of the better players in the skate but he gets a lot of flack because he's playing for the Stanley Cup every shift. It's one thing to pull fancy stuff on a break away or leading the rush. Nobody cares. But it's another to forecheck like a mutha and rub guys out trying to be all Toews'esque. It's a drop-in.
It kinda sounds like you're trashing him cause he's playing harder than everyone else.
In response to the previous post one of the groups my dad used to be in on Sunday mornings plays red vs blue (some of the blue guys had black jerseys and one of the red guys had a white jersey with red - basically an uncrested white Red Wings jersey).
Most other groups have had white vs colour (preferably darker colour due to a sometime vocal minority). Surprised at the posts where people are concerned about the colours of the shoulders of the jerseys or sock colour.
Five of so year ago played in a beer league - our jerseys were orange and one of the teams was red; refs and players didn't have any problems with colours that close. Our goalie was even wearing his red and white jersey that game.
Here's one pic:
I can't believe nobody noticed this yet, but that goalie's mask = AMAZING