D&R Skating Helmet - an updated "Gretzky helmet"

[Doctor Hook 0]

Here in Massachusetts, I still see OG's rocking the mythical Gretzky Jofa helmet at various pickup skates. Not surprisingly, these are also the same types of dudes who wear windpants instead of hockey pants, Cooper gloves from high school, etc. Not sure if many of you are wanting for that bucket, but D&R makes a reasonable facsmile.

I personally wouldn't wear this for hockey, as I like my 4500 and my brain, but for dudes scouring eBay for the original Jofa canoeing helmet, this could be your answer in trying to replicate The Great One. Or Marty McSorely.

Comparison:

[IPv6Freely 2087]

haha awesome

[hunt3rsean 44]

haha played with a guy (old timer, but not really) who used the old Gretzky helmet for sooo long. The team finally convinced him to buy a new/updated helmet. But it was definitely fun to chirp him about it sometimes.

The guys I see at pick-up or adult league that use these helmets....don't play that hard to often. You definitely don't see them fighting for position along boards or in front of the crease.

Great find.

[hockeymass 11]

Almost 30 years later, nothing has unseated the 235 as the worst looking bucket ever made. Not even the Itech Techlite lids that looked like bowling balls.

[Apes44 7]

Almost 30 years later, nothing has unseated the 235 as the worst looking bucket ever made. Not even the Itech Techlite lids that looked like bowling balls.

the Nike bubble helemts Mario wore when he came back was pretty bad! http://www.gamewornauctions.net/images/products/secondary/3458.jpg

[hockeymass 11]

the Nike bubble helemts Mario wore when he came back was pretty bad! http://www.gameworna...ondary/3458.jpg

Those were atrocious for sure. All the Nike branded stuff in the early 00s was brutal-looking (the creamsicle sticks, the gloves).

[goblue9280 33]

Almost 30 years later, nothing has unseated the 235 as the worst looking bucket ever made. Not even the Itech Techlite lids that looked like bowling balls.

I beg to differ, my dad rocked this helmet into the millennium:

[empirehockey 1]

I dunno I had a pretty nasty Winnwell/cooper helmet back in the day, forest green, made me look like a ninja turtle...

But that XL7 is pretty scary..

[Doctor Hook 0]

I rocked an XL-7 in house league squirts and the thing pinched my nog something fierce. Exchanged it for a CCM after one use and that's that. Hated that XL7 bucket.

[hockeymass 11]

I beg to differ, my dad rocked this helmet into the millennium:

It's rough looking, no doubt. I think the tiebreaker is that, in addition to being absolutely hideous, the 235 provided virtually no protection whatsoever.

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

Gretzky made it look good.

[empirehockey 1]

Esa Tikkanen did not... the helmet accentuated the fact that his head was way too small for his body.

[hockeymass 11]

Esa Tikkanen did not... the helmet accentuated the fact that his head was way too small for his body.

McSorley also looked like a clown in it.

[chippa13 1844]

And it definitely didn't look good when Kurri put a visor on one.

[th6252 25]

hated the guy but always thought phil bourque looked perfect in it.

[chippa13 1844]

The pride of Chelmsford, MA.

[cooperalls 4]

Isn't the XL7 the Corvair of hockey helmets? "unsafe at any speed"

Looks aside, both the XL7 and the 235 would be ranked just behind a chinet plate stapled to a toque in terms of protection.

[Vulcan7905 88]

I wonder if hockey has reached that era where everybody wants old school gear now.

[bryceepoo 0]

Gretzky made it look good.

Hahaha. I know I certainly couldn't pull that one off! :)

[danno25nh 3]

Here's he first helmets we wore in bantam days. We complained bitterly as helmets were for wussies.

[Jordan 13]

Foligno's always cracked me up...

[jere26 5]

If you're going for this throwback look and (lack of) protection, you can get an Irish hurling helmet. Still made in the Cooper brand.

[hoppa 0]

Foligno's reminds me of Lanny McDonald's. I think we have a challenger for #1 right here though:

[danno25nh 3]

Dan, I still have mine somewhere! I'll have to dig it out.

Talk about holding on to things! Did you wear a hat over it playing outdoors and have to take it off to show the ref there was a helmet under there?

My first time on indoor ice was Alfond Arena (U-Maine) in 8th grade right after it opened.

[ibeck 38]

#1 ugliest helmet, those neon colored xray see through ccms that came in orange, red, blue, lime green