What you do with your gear after a game

[ambro 0]

I hang mine up in my locker in our locker room:

http://www.wisconsinprephockey.net/gallery..._serialNumber=1

We have an air purifier and a dehumidifier in there so it doesn't smell bad at all.

[odp 0]

Bag outside on my balcony. Gloves on a pair of sticks leaning on the wall. Insoles out of skates. Open bag.

[fastforward32123 0]

A friend from my team and I made our own drying out device that was actually pretty easy and not very expensive. We went to home depot and bought a big garden too holder ( about 5 or six feet tall with plenty of depth for gear.) then we put 2 black lights (to kill the germs)and a dehumidifier inside of it. It works great and keeps our gear dry, smelling good, and bacteria free. But you could also just buy one of the plastic shed things like we did and keep it outside of your house. It has a slot to put a padlock on it also.

[trox_355 0]

I just started playing, so there shouldn't be any reason why I'm stinky yet. After reading all the horror stories about smelly stuff, I have been pretty careful about what I do with my gear. The longest my stuff sits in a car is after a noon stick&puck when I have to go to my last class of the day, so it's usually in there for a couple of hours. Whenever I get back home though, everything goes on the floor and is surrounded by a couple of fans. Gloves sit on top of one for an hour or so to dry them out. For my skates, I have a hairdryer with one of the cool air buttons. Using a ziptie (next best things to duct tape and baling twine) I wrapped around the handle so the cool button stays down. Thirty minutes later, a sopping wet skate is completely dry. Yeah it's loud with a bunch of fans going, but it only takes a couple of hours before everthing is dry.

[kovalchuk71 212]

A friend from my team and I made our own drying out device that was actually pretty easy and not very expensive. We went to home depot and bought a big garden too holder ( about 5 or six feet tall with plenty of depth for gear.) then we put 2 black lights (to kill the germs)and a dehumidifier inside of it. It works great and keeps our gear dry, smelling good, and bacteria free. But you could also just buy one of the plastic shed things like we did and keep it outside of your house. It has a slot to put a padlock on it also.

They are UV lights right?

[ASA_Alex 0]

Home-made Ozone Generator pumping into an old refridgerator:

Close-up:

[crutesie 0]

i do the following in my garage, i put it my shoulder pads over the top of the chair ,my shinguards on the ass bit, strap my elbow pads to the legs of the chair, put my stick upright put my gloves on it as if my hands were there, my bucket on my butt end, and the rest of the stuff i just spread around on the floor. my jersey,cup, skatesocks, underarmour and hockey socks in my laundry bag and put it in the wash every week. i never used to take my laundry items out every week becuase i had to fish it out my bag but with a laundry bag makes it so simple, just chuck it in the washing machine and thats it.

EDIT : im bored, going to make something to hang up my gear. might post up pics if its not too bad :(

[SirJW 207]

I use an old fashion aluminum laundry drying rack in our spare room. It’s strong enough to hold two pairs of skates, gloves and elbow pads on top. I also hang the pants off the top. The laundry and shoulder pads hang in the middle and the helmets and shin guards lay on the floor below. I don’t have a garage but if I did, I’d modify an IKEA shelf w/ hooks and such to make a faux locker. It would look similar to that prep school locker room pic posted in this thread.

[Langenbrunner15 0]

Throw it over my floor down stairs next day after school I put it inside my bag ready to go.

[KYHockey3 0]

ASA_Alex, how do you like that?

its a really cool idea, how long did it take you to figure it all out?

[OhMyGodImOnFire 0]

... then we put 2 black lights (to kill the germs)

blacklights kill germs? cool!

I take out my (goalie)pads and put them under the windowsill in the shape I want them to break in. They're not new, but I keep it there so it stays the way I want it to. I hang my pants by the suspenders up on the edge of this shelf right next to where my pads are. I undo all the straps on my c/a and take the elbow cup things out. Undo the laces on my skates, pull the tongue out, take out the insoles. undo the stuff on my gloves, open it up. Rinse out my mask, clean my sweatband with soap. I also wash my cup.

I really should get a hockey tree, so it's so much easier to lysol all my stuff down. My sister gets so mad when I do it inside the house, so I have to do it in the garage. On lysol day, (has to be atleast 3 days before next time I play hockey, so all the disenfectents die out and I dont get cancer from the lysol) I'm scurrying back and forth with all my gear >_<

[KYHockey3 0]

omygod,, do you so taht after every skate?

i mean the whole washing and taking appart stuff seems like it would be very time consuming, especially to do every day!

[OhMyGodImOnFire 0]

it only takes about 10-15 minutes. I also don't "dissassemble" my c/a unless it's "lysol day", so that shortens about 5 minutes. oh yeah- I forgot to add, I wash my UA, jersey, and socks every time I use em. And for some reason I don't have hockey wednesday and thursday (somtimes sunday, pickup is on friday if I feel like going), which is usually when I lysol my stuff.

[stevoc 0]

I think I have the unpopular method...I wash everything after each use except my helmet, gloves, girdle (washed a few times a season) and shin pads (washed once a week). (don't use shoulder pads for inline) I put my gloves, girdle, and shin pads (when not washed) next to an air purifier for a few days, gloves on top with the air blowing directly into them. No smell for me. :D

I also know some people who never open their bags between games and they smell like something the dog ate a pooped out later.

[ASA_Alex 0]

ASA_Alex, how do you like that?

its a really cool idea, how long did it take you to figure it all out?

The generator setup I have works great. I've cleaned several people's equipment for them, and they've been amazed by the results. My equipment smells as good as new!

Disclaimer: If you build one of these things you are working with HIGH VOLTAGE electricty and deadly gasses. Any one of these can and will kill you.

With that being said....all crazy people like me can read below :D :

I got the idea from Noicingsports.com (it looks like they use a fridge as well):

http://noicingsports.com/hockey_equipment_...or_removal.html

The idea for my generator came from a couple websites:

paranoid potheads : http://www.gardenscure.com/420/security-re...t-ozonator.html and the more scientific type: http://erikmartin.com/

Once I had all the materials together, (had to order the Pyrex baking tube I used), it was up and running in less than an hour.

[crutesie 0]

just incase anyone wants this.. Make your own hockey tree

[Doctor Hook 0]

I've never taken out my footbeds but I think I will start once I get new skates.

[Langenbrunner15 0]

I've never taken out my footbeds but I think I will start once I get new skates.

I'd advise you NOT to take your current ones out. You probably have some nasty fungus and mold growing on your visible rivets.

[Doctor Hook 0]

I've never taken out my footbeds but I think I will start once I get new skates.

I'd advise you NOT to take your current ones out. You probably have some nasty fungus and mold growing on your visible rivets.

Oh I've taken them out to take a peak, and I don't see anything too too bad, just cracks on the plastic footbed underneath the pad. I'm looking for new skates probably by next Xmas. I'll definitely remove the footbeds on those regularly.

[Slapshot25 0]

i hang my jersey over a chair put all my other stuff in laundry baskets(hangin on the side and skates,gloves, and helmet in the basket)

[OhMyGodImOnFire 0]

I've never taken out my footbeds but I think I will start once I get new skates.

check this.Scroll down to the part about "drying and cleaning".