Your top 5 most ugly/annoying hockey gear inventions?

Question

Mine-

1. Cooperalls - shame on you Philly

2. Yellow and tinted visors - Kyle McLaren looks silly

3. Those shiny/reflective Eagle gloves - silver gloves, Eddie Shore is rolling in his grave

4. Aeroflex Goalie pads - Anyone who remembers Reggie Lemelin rebounds remembers those annoying box pads

5. Those replaceable blade systems they came out with the super thin skate blade. Everytime I hear somebody digging into the ice with those, its like nails on the chalkboard.

What are yours??

Answer 1

1) T-Blades. The first time I experienced those was officiating a Flyers Alumni game. Michel Petit was wearing them and it took me a few minutes to figure out where that annoying sound was coming from.

2) Shiny/furry/neon colored gloves. (This includes any equipment made in pink not worn by a woman or as a fund raiser for something) I was a coaching a HS hockey team which wore Dallas Stars colors. A kid showed up wearing neon green gloves. I told the kid he wasn't playing until he put the black gloves back on. It took him almost a month to figure out why his ice time dropped.

3) Cages in general. I believe this is one of the biggest reasons we have some many issues with stick fouls at all levels of hockey. Players do not appreciate the damage a stick can do to an opponent because they do not catch a stick up high until they are at least playing junior hockey. I learned at the Squirt level that I needed to keep my stick down.

4) Armor type equipment/over sized shoulder pads. Again, players do not have the necessary respect for each other because they have worn full body armor their entire hockey careers.

5) Tinted visors. It's all for attention. A player does not need a visor tinted in blue, yellow, pink or brown. If they were playing outdoors I could buy it, but it's just not necessary.

NOTE: I loved my cooperalls. I had the originals in black with the thick white stripe, my Little Flyers pants with Tropicana down one leg and in HS a pair of Tackla pants with yellow stripes and zip off legs which could be worn as long or short pants. That ended in college and beyond when they supplied our pants, but I even reverted to a girdle/shell combo for a few seasons later in life.

Answer 2

1. The Helmet and Cage mask. I preferred the 70s fibreglass mask

2. Easton's extremely shiny aluminum sticks in the early 90s

3. Micron skates. A solid plastic shell that was endorsed in the 70s by Larry Robinson, Ian Turnbull, and Scotty Bowman.

4. Goalie pads wider than what Ken Dryden wore

5. The new Reebok jerseys.



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I loved the Caps white pants and the Kings gold pants. But then, I loved that the Kings didn't have a white uniform until Gretzky and McNall came along

Answer 3

I have a hard time coming up with 5. I can think of a lot of things I thought were great like combining the garter belt with the jock strap.

Ever see those hockey sox that you pulled on like leotards/pantyhose. They sucked.
How about that thing for sharpening skates. A whetstone embedded in plastic. That worked well (not)
The long pants just seemed wrong but I like the way the padding fit. Was way better than some of those pants I used to wear.

Answer 4

Those gloves hockeygirl linked to are hilarious. Do they come in rabbit fur too? Can't believe those are sold out.

Reebok jerseys( as mentioned numerous times)

I'm going back a bit, before inline skates,but anything made for street hockey by Mylec.(I think that was the co. name)Had those white plastic shin guards that almost wrapped around your leg. They cracked in a week. The pucks wouldn't work on concrete and that hard rubber ball hurt like hell if you weren't padded.

Answer 5

1. Cooperalls.
2. Helmets with cage masks. (Like Hasek wears...)
3. Redwood forest tree trunk-sized goalie leg pads.
4. The new Reebok Edge jerseys.
5. Those fugly gloves "hockeygirl" linked to.

Hey, like TB, I dig tinted visors. I think Ovie's are sexy. Maybe Zam just can't handle the sexy. :P

Answer 6

Eagle Goalie Pads

Answer 7

5. tinted visors
4. arturs irbe's goalie mask.
3. the St. Louis Blues third jersey from a few years back that Keenan vetoed.
2. the full length pant that Hartford wore (Did Philly wear it too)
1. The capitals white pants in their inaugural year.

Answer 8

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Answer 9

Okay, I am going to give you one and trust me you will agree this is the WORST hockey gear invention EVER.

Its called a Rinky Fur hockey glove. Just look at it it's hideous!

http://www.hockeymonkey.com/rinky-hockey-fur-glove.html

Now I know you asked for 5, but I really think THAT makes up for all of them. I just can't get over how horrible it is! It's worse than pink gear!

Answer 10

I can't think of 5
Going by what the players ve said I'd say the new Reebox unis. Soaking in your own funk is awful.