2009-10 Minnesota Wild Alternate Jersey & Hockey Birthday

Since today's events in hockey history are about as uninspiring as they get and don't remotely relate to anything in my collection,

Former NHL left winger Guy Delparte born in Prince Albert, Sask.

Delparte played in the NHL 1976-77 with the Colorado Rockies.

I'm taking the day off to go to the Minnesota State Fair and see the Minnesota Wild's new alternate jerseys official debut.

By now you've probably already seen the leaked photo of them, which takes some of the shine off the affair, but that's life in the gottahaveitnow world of the internet I suppose.

Not bad at all, but personally really liked this concept by jlentz823 on the Chris Creamer's Sports Logo Community's message board best, which had more red in the sweater and paired it with the red breezers along with a better font choice for the numbers.

Hockey Birthday: Another reason to give myself the day off is that it just happens to be my birthday today, so I'm going to go gorge myself on various food-on-a-stick items and enjoy some time out in the sun and away from the computer.