Hockey Canada was excited today to unveil their new Team Canada jerseys to be worn in all upcoming international competitions, including this year’s World Championships and the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Everyone should be nervous when they mess with jersey designs. (As any Canucks fan can tell you, it’s been known to go horribly wrong rather often.) So I was pleasantly surprised to see the officially-issued photos of the new style. Looks almost the same as it was before, really. No complaints here.

But then I saw them being ‘modeled’ on Team Canada members Patrick Sharp and Gillian Apps at the press conference…