Your First Equipment

[DamnLocust 0]

Everybody remembers their first set of hockey gear. Many of us started out with hand me downs, others with the cheap stuff you'd find at big box stores. The occassional guy may have actually srated with some decent stuff. I decided this might make for a fun thread, so let's hear it:

Skates: Variflex Sub Zero Inlines (Toys R us special wannabe hockey skates, about as supportive as a work boot with a cheap plastic chassis and rocks for wheels. AND they had brakes)

Stick: Mylec Power-Flo ('nuff said)

Gloves: Bauer Lindros 88 (motoX gloves offer more protection than these did)

Shins/Elbows: none, it was roller hockey in the street. I later got a set of Lindros 88 shins and elbows, but never actually used them.

edit: After doing some thinking, I realized that since this is in the Ice hockey equipment forum, I should probably include what I used to start playing ice, although that was about 10 years after I started playing roller. A lot of the stuff was also used for roller.

Skates: Tour Powerplay XL-45 (not much better than the sub-zeros)

Pants/Shoulders: CCM Powerline

Elbows: Cooper 525L (old school all-foam dealies, which I finally just replaced with Nike V-14s. I never thought I'd be able to wear a newer pad.)

Shins: 11" Easton Air. Yes, they're junior pads. No, I'm not really short.

Lid: Bauer 3000/Itech shield

Gloves: Mission M-1

Stick: Bauer 1000 Woodie. I occasionally used my Cyclone too, depending on whether I had a wood or ABS blade in there

[kovalchuk71 212]

Skates- Mongoose Inline skates (basically work boots with wheels as well) and brakes!

Stick- An old Franklin wood/plastic stick.

Gloves- My dads old 70's cooper gloves

Helmet- CCM x-ray helmet

[James 0]

Skates- got them at target

Stick- Franklin wood with the screw in blade

Pants- CCM

Shins and Elbow and gloves- Franklin package

shoulders- TPS (were extremely big because people from sports authority didnt know what they were doing. Still use them. tried to trade them in at my LHS, but they said that they were too old of a model.

Helmet- CCM

[deadmanjolt 1]

Skates: Bauer Supreme 1000 '99 (played for the first time in Dec 2005).

Stick: Easton Axis Aluminum

Pants: KOHO 4420

Shins, Elbows, Shoulder: Sher-Wood 5000 package

Helmet: Bauer 4000+cage

Gloves: CCM 492 Tacks (those died fast)

[jbyun04 7]

Helmet: Bauer 1000 with 1000 cage

Shoulder Pads: Easton Black Maxx (still using them and i love them)

Elbow: Franklin soft caps

Pants: Bauer 300

Shin pads: Easton Octane

Skates: CCM 159 Tacks

gloves: Hespeler GX200

Stick: CCM V12 wood stick (canadian tire)

[Doctor Hook 0]

Wow. I barely remember 22 years ago, but I believe I rocked very early CCM shoulder pads (what would probably be considered good for beer league usage today), CCM Supra pants, Bauer something skates, a CCM jr. bucket, and a Koho black stick. Oh and Cooper elbows and shin guards.

[whbd18 0]

Skates: Bauer Supreme (1000?) Black/Green ones I think?

Gloves: St. Louis Scheme Vic

Stick: Wood Bauer Impact Straight White with Natural Blade.

Pants: CCM Powerline

helmet: Cooper Messier style

Thats all I can remember.

[hapamatt122 0]

This must be from about 1990...

Skates: Bauer Formula 20 (I still have them in the garage!)

Shins: CCM

Elbow: CCM

Shouldies: CCM

Pants: CCM Supra

Helmet: CCM

Gloves: Winwell

Stick: Cooper

Wow, now that I think of it, I used to rock a lot of CCM gear.

[SickLife 2]

it was all cooper, except for bauer skates. & a titan alum stick, & jofa helmet.

[acollette49 0]

1990ish.

skates: bauer black panters. worst skates ever. im amazed that i kept playing after that first year.

gloves:easton gx30s. finally got around to tossing those a couple of years ago.

pants, shins, elbows:all cheap cooper stuff

helmet: ccm something

shoulders: cooper SBP64s

stick: i think i was using a gretzky titan.

[Dougie8 0]

My first helmet was a white and blue cooper.

Stick was a straight woodie, no clue what brand.

CCM Tack skates (I think)

Little Cooper shoulder pads

and I can't remember what else I had...

[Petey21 1]

Don't remember everything but here's what I remember (early 80's):

Helmet: Jofa 280 (same model Irbe used + same style cage)

Gloves: Cooper

Stick: Kitchener

Shins: Jofa

Skates: Daoust (w/ clear Tuuks)

[RadioGaGa 162]

Helmet, pants, gloves, shins, elbows: All My fathers old stuff. I know the helmet was CCM...the rest was probably Cooper.

Skates: Brand spankin' new Microns...the old molded kind.

Sticks: Woodies (Koho, if I recall correctly). Dont' even ask what pattern/lie.

I didn't have socks...I wore track pants over my shins.

[marc_9 0]

helmet: some crappy ccm helmet from canadian tire.

shoulder: Hespelers

elbow: ccm's

gloves: sherwoods

pants: used ccm supras

shins: hespelers

skates: ccm tacks not sure what ones i think they were 462s?

sticks: some sherwood stick , Koho MVP

[Miike 1]

Helmet: CCM

Shoulders: Cooper

Elbows: Ferland

Gloves: Ferland

Pants: Cooper maybe?

Shins: Cooper

Skates: CCM

Sticks: Titan

[snickersnicker 0]

Helmet: Bauer

Shoulders: JOFA

Elbow: JOFA

Gloves: Nike (I had the best gloves on the team, but they were huge)

Pants: oooold used CCM

Shins: JOFA

Skates: Bauer

Sitck: Koho Jagr

[shotblock 0]

Helmet: Itech

Gloves: Bauer

Pants: I had a pair of tacklas which was pretty cool.

Skates: I had megas thats all i know. I think Pavel used them back in Vancouver. A back ground on the skates would be nice. The rest I dont remember

[GSHL99 0]

Well as best as I can remember:

Helmet: Cooper model and mask, have no idea which model

Shoulders: Cooper, again couldn't remember what model

Elbows:CCM

Gloves: CCM

Pants: Cooper

Shins: Cooper

Skates: CCM

Stick: KOHO with lime green tape, oh yeah I was the man

[rogue 0]

I started playing when I was 6. This December I found all my old equipment in the garage when I needed 2 screws for my new helmet. I have no idea how it survived 13 years, and 6 moves between my mom and dad but it was all still there (how it all ended up at my mom's I'll never know since there were always arguments about who bought which pieces of equipment, etc.)

Back on topic-

Helmet: Blue Cooper SK2000

Skates: Bauer (100's I think, not sure) with ICM holders

Elbows: Cooper (I hardly wore them, they always slid down)

Shins: No idea, they were white with felt for padding.

Shoulders: Cooper SB60

Pants: Blue Cooper

Gloves: Blue Winnwell with the V on the back made of diamond shapes

Stick: Sherwood

Wow I really had some Canstar brand loyalty back then.

[epstud74 24]

Helmet-used Cooper

Pants- used Tacklas

Gloves-new blue CCMs..not sure what model

Skates-new Riedell (only make figure skates nowadays)

Shoulder pads-Cooper

Shins- Jofa/CCM

Elbow- CCM

Stick- Victoriaville/Christian

[mattzilla 0]

helmet was one of those old school COOPER ones that looked like a giant lightbulb, and had the quick adjust buckle thing on the side.

shinpads were some JOFA ones, i forget specifics.

elbow pads, i just finally replaced 2 weeks ago, they were always too big, even 12 years later.

stick was a 2 piece.. some no name brand one.

[Patrick67 1]

Helmet: Jofa 390 with a Jofa Cage

Shoulders: Noname or Pallas (can't remember)

Elbows: Pallas

Shins: Pallas

Pants: Pallas

Gloves: Pallas

Skates: Italien plastic skates first season, second season Graf 70's. Anybody that ever says equipment doesn't make a player better should shut their pie-hole. Biggest leap I ever made in hockey was switching to graf skates.

Stick: Torspo!!!

[tibnyi01 10]

OK, gonna try.

Helmet: CCM

Gloves: Some Cooper junk

Skates: Bauer.. Lightning???

Stick: Some Koho as best I can remember.

Completely lost on the rest. LOL I've had so much gear its hard to remember exactly what I was wearing through H.S. :lol:

[LkptTiger 1]

It wasn't all that long ago (I was five when I first started ice hockey), but I still don't really remember the details. If I were home, I'd rifle through my stuff and find it all, but I'm not, so I'll try to nail down what I can...

Stick: Winwell ???; straight blade.

Skates: Bauer ???

Helmet: Cooper ??? bucket with Itech Concept II Jr. mask

Gloves: KoHo Jr. Lemuiex...

Pants: CCM ???

Shins: Some small-ass Vics that I used until I was like, 10. I loved 'em.

Shoulders: Cooper ???

Elbow Pads: Bauer ???

Jock: Arbitrary generic thing...

[CapsFan 5]

Hmmm, 10 years ago, but...

Helmet- Jofa... Looked like a egghead.

Shoulders- Christian I think

Elbows- TPS Gel

Gloves- CCM

Pants- Koho

Shins- Vic

Skates- 352 Tacks

Stick- Easton aluminium/ TPS woody