Derek Medlin

The Struttin' Stormy was a big point of emphasis for these new road jerseys. Canes VP of Marketing Matt Sutor: "We did an audit of all NHL team shoulder patches and saw that there really wasn't a lot of unique marks there, not a lot of creativity. So we thought, 'How can we branch out? How can we be a little bit different than your standard NHL team?' and Struttin' Stormy was right there staring us in the face. ... The big flagship unique portion of this jersey is Stormy. That's not something you see on a typical NHL jersey and not something you see on a lot of sports jerseys in general." Canes President Doug Warf: "What we call Struttin' Stormy is a big homage to our collegiate atmosphere here. Whether it's Duke, UNC, NC State, ECU, you go down the list and everybody has one of these old monikers and it's a mark that we've used a handful of times years ago. It's one we came up with just to see how it played and the fans have loved it and that's what we've heard a lot of. Anytime we've put it out, it's 'When is this going to make an appearance on a jersey?' and I think this is the perfect time to put it on the shoulder."