The New York Times lays out how longtime Montreal Canadiens equipment manager Pierre Gervais decided to include the accents in players' names on their uniforms this season, as idea on which GM Marc Bervevin signed off. Montreal is now the first N.H.L. club to have a policy of rendering players' names accurately on their uniforms.
Gervais said the accents were made possible by technology. Until recently, the strip of cloth for name bars was too shallow.
"I would have had to sew the accent mark onto the uniform itself, above the name bar," said Gervais, who started working as a Canadiens equipment manager in 1987. "Until a few years ago, we used to reuse the uniforms, so I couldn't do it."
Now, he said, the name bars are taller, and machines can print any diacritical mark.
"All of that together, I was sitting in my office last summer and said to myself, You know, why not?" Gervais said.
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