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Wild Fire? Playing with new equipment?
Tonight the Minnesota Wild players were forced to play with begged, borrowed and scratched together equipment after a van fire destroyed most of their gear. Not surprisingly they lost....both goalies lost all their gear so they were in big trouble from the start. Question is for those of us who play the game....what one peice of equipment do you find the hardest to get used to when you replace it with new?
A few things come to mind but for me it was the transition from the old style shoulder pads to the new hard armor shoulder pads. In my beginnings there were no hard shell shoulder pads and the movement is remarkably different (Shanahan never went away from the old gear because of this) and the hard shell elbow pads werent much better. Cant imagine what the Wild must have had to deal with having to adjust to all new stuff in less than a day (but I hear some skaters got lucky and didnt lose their gear...but goalies with new masks, new blockers and glove, new everything....that had to suck).
5 Answers
- The Hockey Guy©Lv 51 decade ago
As a hockey player I find it hardest to adjust to skates. Since I don't play in the NHL I don't get custom sized equiptment etc, so shoulder pads, shin guards, elbow pads, they don't make a difference. The skates however, do. They take a good 2 weeks of solid skating to break in. Also, what you mentioned about the shoulder pads, the hockey companies will specially make older style pads for player type, so they're not getting a different style, just a new set.
I'm not a goalie but I can only imagine. All of the pads they wear need legitimate breaking in-time.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
They all add together as little things, they brought some of their practice equipment from toronto but i could not imagine!!! That would suck SO much!
I would say gloves, if the gloves were to small for the goalies and they were stiffer or looser would be the hardest thing.
- 1 decade ago
The hardest thing to get used to is new skates because u cant do a hockey stop in them right away...u get them sharpend and then u still cant stop it takes me a good 2 weeks to get used to a new pair of skates everything is doesnt bug me