Canucks celebrate First Nations Night with special orange warmup jerseys

The Vancouver Canucks celebrated their fourth annual First Nations Night sporting special orange warmup jerseys before their game against the St. Louis Blues at Rogers Arena on Wednesday.

The jerseys were designed by local Musqueam and Tsimshian artist Chase Gray.
Gray used Coast Salish inspired art to design the Canucks logo. He used three Musqueam colors: tumuth, sunset yellow and black.

"To me, creating this jersey was an opportunity to represent my family, art and culture,"
Gray told the Canucks website.
"It also gives me a chance to do that on a massive scale, while reminding everybody about the current significance of orange, and the orange shirt day movement. To be the person who designed the logo for the game that brings a ton of Indigenous people together to celebrate themselves as well is a huge honor."
The Canucks also held a ceremonial puck drop that featured special guests from various Indigenous people groups, including former player Ron Delorme, who is a member of Cree Nation.

"It's so important," Vancouver captain Bo Horvat said of the First Nations night celebrations. "You go back to those residential schools and think of what they went through and how hard it would have been on their families and the survivors of the residential schools, and I can't believe I didn't know about it sooner. A lot of people didn't know about it, and to obviously be playing a game like this tonight wearing the jerseys and supporting that I think is really important."
NHL.com independent correspondent Kevin Woodley contributed to this report