The NHL has one week to go, but at MeiGray, it's already playoff time.
Program teams are preparing their playoff sets, and planning for when the sets will hit the ice.
Although we work closely with our program teams, we make it our business NOT to get involved in hockey decisions. If a team likes to wait until the Trade Deadline for making its Set 2s, we wait until the trade deadline. If a team likes to wear its Set 3, the playoff set, late in the regular season to break them in, that's fine with us.
This season, the Washington Capitals have prepared their third home red set so that they can break them in before the playoffs begin ... if the Caps make it. The New Jersey Devils broke out their home red and road white Set 3s in late March. The Boston Bruins and Philadelphia Flyers plan to start their playoff sets in Game 1 of their respective series.
If the Los Angeles Kings make the playoffs, and what a race that is out in the Pacific Division, they will start the playoffs in new Set 3s.
On the ice, it figures to be a great final six days before the season ends with all 30 teams playing on Saturday, April 7. At least one or two playoff spots might be up for grabs on that final day of the regular season.
By the way, we expect Washington and Philadelphia's Set 1s by the end of the regular season, so we will start closing out and shipping those jerseys in time for the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
Hey Barry,
ReplyDeleteHow does the program work with teams jersey as far as the Meigray patches (ECHL and NHL)? Do you guys at Meigray sew them onto the jersey or do the equipment mangers of each team do that?
Thank You,
Dean Stewart
Hi Dean,
ReplyDeleteOur MeiGray logo patch appears on the outer left hem of every ECHL jersey, and those patches are applied by SP and Reebok at their factories, when the jerseys are manufactured.
Our counterfeit-proof, individually numbered security tags are applied to the inside left hems of our NHL program teams and that is done before the jerseys are worn on a case-by-case basis.
Sometimes we sew them in when we acquire the jerseys from Reebok and send them to the teams before names and numbers are applied. But sometimes, depending upon timing, the names and numbers are applied first and then the tags are sewn in.
In both cases, we log the inventory numbers into our database once we know which players are using which garments, in which sets.
Barry
Thank You Barry! I've always wondered that.
ReplyDeleteDean