Help me understand - New Hurricane Long 5 - Provincial team W968 - Letters not on the handle ?

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Hello Everyone ! I finally received my order from prott for the "Provincial team W968 - Letters" sold at 260$ right now, and the blade seem nice but it's the first time I see a W968 with the letters on the paddle and not the handle, is it new ? should I complain ? (I checked it on dhs site, it says it's genuine) and more than anything - I paid extra for a W968 provincial team, and I feel it might be just a classic HL5, how can I check if it's truly a provincial version ? Thank you very much for your help
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The new productions are on the blade and not on the handle anymore. I can't tell you when this started, but letter should stand for 2023.09.24

Few years back you could identify if the last letter was E (provincial) or F (commercial), but they fused all of them into F.
 
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my Prov Hurricane King (aka Q968) has the same. Number is on the head of the blade not on the handle, and on the added sheet there is only weight with serial number but I have also Q968 Nat version, number is on the handle there is a lack of sheet, but has sticker with all details, number, weight, etc. and what surprised me the most. My Prov version is the best quality blade I've ever seen from DHS. Yeah, funny but it's true.
 
Hello Everyone ! I finally received my order from prott for the "Provincial team W968 - Letters" sold at 260$ right now, and the blade seem nice but it's the first time I see a W968 with the letters on the paddle and not the handle, is it new ? should I complain ? (I checked it on dhs site, it says it's genuine) and more than anything - I paid extra for a W968 provincial team, and I feel it might be just a classic HL5, how can I check if it's truly a provincial version ? Thank you very much for your help
Newer DHS blades will have the serial number printed on the blade head (above the handle) instead of the handle. I know it started from year 2023 but not sure which month. DHS changes the serial number of newer Provincial W968 to start with HL5 instead of W968 and only National and specific player W968 will start with W968 (including Q968 and S968). Does your blade come with the box?
 
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