Habs Offer $10 Haircuts at 30 mph

Onfrozenpond.com
By Pucksandbooks
February 2, 2009

If you’re not talking about the Super Bowl this morning, chances are you’re talking about this.

That was what the Habs wore for their Sunday showdown with the Bs. Wow. Some might call it an adventurous foray into third sweaters; other of a less charitable spirit might suggest it’s a sweater best never sewn. Greg Wyshynski, while understandably characterizing it as a Barbershop pole look, also wonders, “Isn’t this look even a little bit awesome?”

I confess, I have some warmth for the look. Not sayin I’d wear it out on a first date, mind you. But it would seem to look perhaps well-matched with a pair of really beat-up bluejeans. And there’s something Ray Meyer DePaul Blue Demons novel about it; if it’s ’80s, I’m into it. And of course that means potentially wearing it while swaying to Dead or Alive’s ‘You Spin Me ‘Round.’ (Or perhaps the sweater’s wearers would be forbidden from spinning.) I’d note, too, that the contemporary DePaul Blue Demons hoopsters are harkening back to that look.

I wanted another opinion on the look, so I emailed Comcast SportsNet’s Lisa Hillary this morning, and attached the adventurous look to my message. Lisa, ever stylishly snazzy in her fashion comportment, brings what I regard as a broadcast chic look to each and every press box visit for Caps’ games. Plus, she’s Canadian, so she has a dog in this fashion fight, I think.

Lisa more or less told me that she wouldn’t be seen in public anywhere near the sweater.

“Brutal,” she called it.