Junior hockey team dons special Blue Jays-themed jerseys
Canada's favorite summer birds are hitting the ice.
The Regina Pats, who play in the Western Hockey League - one of Canada's three top-level junior hockey circuits - hosted "Toronto Blue Jays Night" for their game against the Calgary Hitmen on Friday, and the Pats went all out to welcome the country's lone baseball team to Saskatchewan. As part of the festivities, the Pats donned sweaters modeled after the Blue Jays' home white uniforms, which will be auctioned off in support of the Blue Jays' official charity after the game.
Many Pats players are Blue Jays fans, and they seemed quite excited to wear their favorite baseball team's logo onto the ice for a night.
Blue Jays jersey night tonight. @MStrooo6 what do you think? @BlueJays @WHLPats pic.twitter.com/VFPgO7ZxwJ
— Chase Harrison (@ChaseHarrison_2) January 6, 2017
Hey @russellmartin55 rockin your number tonight for bluejays night. #favouriteJay @WHLPats @BlueJays pic.twitter.com/FUK7jBAavX
— liam schioler (@Lschioler7) January 6, 2017
The Blue Jays weren't going to sit back and miss this winter party, as outfielder Ezequiel Carrera stopped by to take in the game. Carrera even managed to look like a hockey player when he modeled some equipment in the Pats' locker room.
Hey @WHLHitmen, mind if we use Zeke tonight? #JoinTheRegiment pic.twitter.com/NMnYIaHSav
— Regina Pats (@WHLPats) January 6, 2017
Carrera was attending his first hockey game Friday night, and though it looks like he knows how to keep his stick on the ice, the Venezuelan was quick to admit hockey is a new world for him.
"I do enjoy watching the fights," Carrera said before the game, according to Murray McCormick of the Regina Leader-Post. "I know that a lot of people follow hockey, but I really don't know much about it."