The Carolina Hurricanes are throwing it back a few decades this season for Whalers Night: In White!. The team will don the Hartford Whalers' classic, white home uniforms on February 10, 2024 against the New Jersey Devils. The Hurricanes, who relocated from Hartford for the 1997-98 NHL season, have in recent years celebrated their Whalers past more.
Carolina also announced that they'll be wearing Cooperall pants for warmups before the game. During the 1982-83 season, select Whalers players wore the waist-to-ankle hockey pants before the NHL outlawed them the next year.
"Credit to the Flyers on this one, as they re-introduced the Cooperalls last year in conjunction with their Reverse Retro uniform scheme," Forman said. "The Flyers and Whalers were exclusively the two NHL clubs who wore Cooperalls for a year or two in the 80s and it's a way for us to have fun and feed into the retro vibes for warmups only that night. We've worked with the same manufacturer as the Flyers did last season to make these come to life. They will be worn over the top of the normal green pants that will be worn for the game itself."
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