The new Mitchell and Ness vintage jerseys are terrible and why I worry about who takes over in 2024

This is what happens when you give someone monopoly on creating merchandise.

CCM should take over jerseys again

CCM or Koho were the best hockey jersey manufacturers.

I want an orange Flyers jersey from the CCM Vintage Hockey line in a medium. How can I get it?

Once Fanatics acquired M&N, I knew not to fall for the NHL blue line “vintage” hype. Great video. Fanatics will only make the bootleg market stronger unfortunately.

The worst part is the price.

Mitchell & Ness used to produce authentic vintage jerseys years back before they lost the rights and well before they were bought out by Fanatics. Those things were well made. I have the 94 Messier & 93 Gretzky. Both are pure quality

I do agree with u LarryNHL Hockey Fanatics jerseys do suck

Thanks for the info. I was looking at purchasing the Lemieux M & N jersey, thought it was cool because it had the Stanley Cup patch and the NHL 75th Anniversary patch. I will be skipping that after watching your video.

Larry, I’m not sure how old these shirts are in the pull over sweatshirts and stuff but CCM has apparel that is available on the NHL shop.. I hope I’m smelling a come back?

I feel your pain. You are absolutely right. None of the newer NFL jerseys are worth the money they are charging. Doesn't matter if it's Nike or Mitchell & Ness. The quality has gone downhill. It's the greed of capitalism. Quality has slowly been diminishing over the years. They figure they can lower their costs while increasing prices and people will just keep buying because they want to rep their team or their favorite player. I've stopped buying newer stuff for the most part. I did buy a recent Mitchell & Ness Ravens jersey only because it went on sale and since it should have never been sold in the first place due to a legal dispute over the old Ravens logo that prohibits anything with the original bird wings from being manufactured. I thought it was funny that M&N didn't look into this or get stopped before they went into production. But they did release them. So I grabbed one just to have a unique piece in my Ravens jersey collection. But the quality isn't great. Not for $160. I paid $110 just because I know these won't be in stock again and also because it is hard to find Jonathan Ogden jerseys in general. It is a nice reference point because I have an original jersey from that era and it is nice, yet sad to be able to compare the original and a reproduction side by side. The differences are staggering. Old ones are so much better. Even the jerseys worn on the field by the players are much lower quality than before. I have a game-worn jersey from the 90s and I have seen the new game-worn jerseys up close. The old ones are way better all around. More durable material. There is a lot more detail as well. I notice that on the new jerseys, sometimes certain details are literally peeling away by the time the players get to the post-game press conference. Particularly the Nike signs on the shoulders. I never saw that happen before the last few seasons and I have been watching football for a very long time.

i think they should let the teams pick their own manufacturer. if one team likes the adidas, they get adidas. if another team likes ccm, then they get ccm. just give them certain specs to keep them official to the nhl, but the rest is up to the team. there needs to be more competition, not less.

hey man. anywhere i can get a throwback stitched jersey?

You are getting better. Keep going.

I feel your pain as I am a passionate collector of baseball jerseys and caps. I’ve seen the same thing happen in that market. The bad news is Fanatics isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. You’re best bet is to start searching the second hand market place for actual vintage jerseys but you’ll be paying top dollar for them as more and more people find out just how crappy these new vintage throwbacks are.

I totally agree with you i think the 90's CCM jerseys cost more to make because of material and labor costing more now. I ONLY buy CCM blanks then send them to the wellsfargo center for numbers and names. GO Flyers!!!

CCM with their replica AHL jerseys has one layer vinyl shoulder patches. Honestly I hate to say it but I kinda want Nike to take over. An underdog I think would be really cool to see is UnderArmour and would love to see them get it. So for me Nike or UnderArmour is what I hope for a take over.

Thanks Larry I totally agree with you. I don't collect M&N hockey jerseys, but I do collect baseball and I am seeing the wrong material used in vintage jerseys and I am like you, I will not buy them! Thanks for your great work, keep it up!

Mitchell and Ness is so wrong for this price point. they would be making massive markup at 40 dollars. it's a total rip-off. heat transfer is fine if you are small potatotes, but you still can't gouge your customers. no one should be charging the same as an actual pro-stitch jersey for heat transfer.

These things or atrocious. It’s such an insult to the people who have an undying passion and love for hockey jerseys. I know that the average consumer or fan who buys hockey jerseys most I would say don’t care about all the small details; the quality of the logo, the material, the stitching, the embroidery, all the stuff that we pay attention to. Those are the majority of the people they just don’t have that passion, and Fanatics caters to the crowd to those consumers. I had a feeling Mitchell and Ness would make jerseys. That was my first guess was Mitchell and Ness. This horrific attempt at making vintage jerseys may be a test run to see how many people are interested in buying hockey jerseys with the Mitchell and Ness namebrand. I don’t care about the namebrand what I care about is what you care about and what a lot of us care about but I just think we’re like a small community. We want good quality jerseys. The best thing about the Adidas jerseys are the comfort I don’t like the sizing, the fit that much & how easy they snag. The logos especially the primegreen logos and the collars, I just love them. When Reebok took over, they got worse as the years went on and honestly, I’ve never bought any Home or away jerseys from teams other than my favorite team the Penguins and I hardly ever wore them. The only other Reebok jerseys I’ve bought were 3rd jerseys & the outdoor games only because those jerseys would be in a limited quantity. They would get harder to find over time. It’s crazy to me how cheap these things are and the Jack the price of the 200 because they’re calling them “vintage” & some of the jerseys were made not too long ago. Something tells me they’re not gonna sell very many of them and what a waste of money how can you be so out of touch with hockey fans and how passionate we are about jerseys but then again like I said, they just cater to the the average consumer, who just doesn’t pay attention to all the details that goes into the quality of a jersey.