Certified Stickers on helmet?

[slipslap 0]

You know how helmets come with stickers that say that the helmet is hecc certified or what not? Well im wondering if its ok to take them off.

Thanks in advance

[Chadd 916]

Technically, without the sticker you can't use them in USAH or HC sanctioned game play.

[mnitishin 0]

I don't think your supposed to but I may be wrong. I have never taken the sticker off. Don't know if this helped you that much.

[devilsrule711 0]

i do but only cause it eventually falls off but so do a bunch of my teammates and we've been doin it for years and never been asked a bout it once in travel or HS play so i say go for it

[jbyun04 7]

i don't really see the big deal

if everyone knows your helmet is certified, why would it matter if you have the sticker or not (other than the fact that it could expire in maybe like another 4, 5 years)? that being said I always remove them just because i hate them

[QandA 0]

As a referee, I couldn't care less, because I know what's certified and what's not, and as a player I don't have the sticker.

[devilsrule711 0]

i don't really see the big deal

if everyone knows your helmet is certified, why would it matter if you have the sticker or not (other than the fact that it could expire in maybe like another 4, 5 years)? that being said I always remove them just because i hate them

all refs will not care one of my teammates who kept his stickers on, his helmet certification expired in like 1999

[hunter4oz 0]

DONT TAKE THEM OFF !!!

I got kicked out of a game for not having the stickers on my helmet before. maybe it was just the ref but i wouldnt even take the chance.and if you do get in trouble, you cant just buy new stickers, only a new helmet.

[j8Zt8r 0]

As long as the matress police don't branch out to look for these stickers I will take them off.

[notorious#29 0]

As long as you are just playing bush league or something like that, why not? I took all the stickers off my 1052 and my 8k, I have never heard anything about it. Wouldn't most refs know it's a certified helmet anyway?

[SyracuseBulldogs04 0]

I've always taken my stickers off of every helmet....you should be fine if you do.

[Chadd 916]

As long as you are just playing bush league or something like that, why not? I took all the stickers off my 1052 and my 8k, I have never heard anything about it. Wouldn't most refs know it's a certified helmet anyway?

Most refs don't care about the stickers.

[devilsrule711 0]

as long as it says a big co. name like Bauer Reebok, CCM theyll know its certified

[hockeyherb 1]

I just put my own sticker over it. I put a Source Canadian flag sticker over the back of my helmet. (the Source is a big snowboard shop in Calgary) After I did it I wondered if I'm supposed to put any stickers on my helmet but nobody in my beer league has said a word. I'm sure if there is a lenient league out there it's a beer league.

[Gongshow11 1]

since i was 8 years old ive been taking them off, no on ewill call you out on it. in fact, i dont know a kid who has them on.

[hockeyblood 11]

anti-sticker here too.

[chippa13 1844]

There is no mention in the USA Hockey rulebook about the stickers. It only states that the helmet must be HECC certified for all players under adult.

[2-Keys 1]

once i started playing travel i ahve been taking all the stickers off teh back. they look retarted in my opionion. plus my team put the team sticker there so it wouldnt really have mattered.

[Fletch 219]

I always take them off....I just took them off of my Intake yesterday and my thumbs are raw from "smudging" the residue off....the HECC one always rips....I hate that.

[Dupes 1]

I've always taken my stickers off of every helmet....you should be fine if you do.

same here, and ive played hockey for 20 yrs or so

[Duder84 0]

try heating up the stickers, it makes the glue moist and easier to take off

I've never taken off the stickers, just didn't care enough for it

[Quintin 16]

I try ripping them off but I usually get too lazy to finish the job. A ref asked me "what's happened to your stickers?" and i told him my dog started scratching my helmet.

[Jason 65]

On my Bauer 5000 I just took off the stickers and stuck them on the inside underneath the padding incase any ref ever called me on it. You'd have to be an idiot not to know that all of the major brands are certified though. It's not like there is a huge market for knock offs when it comes to hockey equipment.

[donkey87 0]

I'm too lazy to take on the stickers. If they start peeling, I'll pull them off, otherwise I just leave them.

[top 0]

no stickers here too, i have a bauer 5000 and the day i got it i took off all the logo's exept the one in the front, and all the stickers off i find it looks better