Gear Sightings 2009-2010 Gear Sightings

[adam14 182]

Personally, I think the x60 gloves are gonna look good in single colours, or in black and red. Lots of gloves look worse in us colours I find..

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

s19 OPS on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Easton-S19-Pro-Hoc...id=p3286.c0.m14

Same guy is selling the black s17 skate too.

Haha size 8...oh I'm SO calling his ass out on it today.

[ovechkin_368 0]

Vapor 60 gloves

Wow I was expecting something, to well look more appealing like the rest of the x60 line.

I really thought it was the poor choice of colours that was skewing my opinion of these gloves so i use my primative photoshop skills to make them all one colour and it looks pretty decent in all red

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Yea i agree, the e-pros are freaking terrible! At least release the SE16 with more color choices... I love the glove but the colors are really limited. I assume they don't release the pro gloves to the public for two reasons, to not overload the factory, or because they don't think they will sell at the 150+ dollars.

That's where you are wrong -

Easton does have it available to dealers, it is a 6-glove minimum. They do not do one-offs.

I know plenty of dealers who do orders and then stock them. Where do you think most of the ones on eBay are coming from?

Why don't they let people order the new pro glove? The SE style one?

The SE16 style glove?

It is available. Look at the Easton catalogue.

[Quintin 16]

Is it just me or has hockey equipment got progressively uglier??

[syko_hockey 0]

still not liking it in a solid color and i agree equipment is getting really ugly

[The Dangler 0]

Is it just me or has hockey equipment got progressively uglier??

I coudlnt have said it better. This futuristic look has gone too far. I cant stand the feel of these new gloves and some of these helmets and gloves bauer is releasing .. gross.

[larrivee 3]

Yea i agree, the e-pros are freaking terrible! At least release the SE16 with more color choices... I love the glove but the colors are really limited. I assume they don't release the pro gloves to the public for two reasons, to not overload the factory, or because they don't think they will sell at the 150+ dollars.

That's where you are wrong -

Easton does have it available to dealers, it is a 6-glove minimum. They do not do one-offs.

I know plenty of dealers who do orders and then stock them. Where do you think most of the ones on eBay are coming from?

Why don't they let people order the new pro glove? The SE style one?

The SE16 style glove?

It is available. Look at the Easton catalogue.

Still not seeing it. What page?

[Burning Bear 76]

To me, it's not really the build of the recent crop of gloves that make them ugly. Hell, the Vapor XXXX pros look really good in solid colors and even the S17 pro stock gloves look sharp, too. It's the stripes and the over-complicated "this is the future of hockey even though it's never caught on at the pro level" palms. Those two things have been absolute dealbreakers when it comes to retail gloves. The S19, for instance, is a textbook victim of both.

Just my two cents.

[cptjeff 0]

s19 OPS on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Easton-S19-Pro-Hoc...id=p3286.c0.m14

Same guy is selling the black s17 skate too.

Haha size 8...oh I'm SO calling his ass out on it today.

On another note, does the steel look a little odd to anyone else?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Easton-S17-Black-P...id=p3911.c0.m14

The sheen seems a little off, especially in the second to last photo.

[ovechkin_368 0]

I 100% agree with burning bear complexity only leads to a bad product, simplicty is key but the problem for companys is to keep simplicity in the a line of products but making them look different. Like in the situation of the x:60 glove, they tried to back to basics make a bigger back roll and cuff similar to the xxx's and a two lines to limit the complexity but they tried to hard to make them look like xxx's and now it just looks weird

[GSH13 0]

yeah not really liking the x60 gloves. is it me or does the cuff look really big

Definitely not just you. They seem huge.

I'm definitely not feeling them. But to be fair I prefer a more traditional looking glove.

[Officer Dangle 0]

To me, it's not really the build of the recent crop of gloves that make them ugly. Hell, the Vapor XXXX pros look really good in solid colors and even the S17 pro stock gloves look sharp, too. It's the stripes and the over-complicated "this is the future of hockey even though it's never caught on at the pro level" palms. Those two things have been absolute dealbreakers when it comes to retail gloves. The S19, for instance, is a textbook victim of both.

Just my two cents.

+1. A 4 roll glove and nash palm is all I need. Franchises are great because the strips add a nice touch without being too out there. Anything more than that looks too busy in my opinion.

[K9 Unit 1]

^ totally agree, last years 9k RBKs was pretty good too, just two simple semi circles. nothing beats plain 4roll style

[usahockey22 0]

On another note, does the steel look a little odd to anyone else?

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-Easton-S17-Black-P...id=p3911.c0.m14

The sheen seems a little off, especially in the second to last photo.

Yea. It's Easton's new "nano-glide" runner. Nano Glide

[hockey4me 0]

What's the difference between the Swedish steel they put on their skates and this Nano Glide steel?

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

It is the same steel, polished and then coated.

[Havok19 0]

Its suposed to hold the edge better and glide better.Another gimmick maybe?

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

We'll see. I emailed the Product Manager, I'm always interested in trying stuff like that out.

I am hearing that they will be providing special honing stones to hone the blades with - not sure what they are. Most stores don't invest in proper honing stones. Guess guys don't have $12 stones in their aprons like I do.

[Chadd 916]

There was an article posted a while back that talked about a way to coat steel that would make it extremely tough. Unfortunately, it would also make it impossible to sharpen. It sounds like Easton is trying to split the difference.

[GSH13 0]

There was an article posted a while back that talked about a way to coat steel that would make it extremely tough. Unfortunately, it would also make it impossible to sharpen. It sounds like Easton is trying to split the difference.

I know its been mentioned that there may be some differences in sharpening the new steel, but does anyone have any details?

[stuie7 6]

It is the same steel, polished and then coated.

if this is the case then surely it wont perform any differently.

[steve66 45]

It depends what the coating is and what it's designed to do. If it's purely to elongate the length between sharpenings, then no it probably won't perform any differently. If the coating however is meant to make the blade interact differently with the ice then it could perform differently, it could be both, and as no-one is really too sure, or has tried it publicly it's difficult to say which is the most accurate statement.

[stuie7 6]

will be interesting to see, the step velocity steel is supposed to keep an edge better because of its coating but to be honest i think its more to do with the grade of steel used by step, which is 404a compared to eastons 304 if i remember correctly (its been discussed on here before).

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Which is why I want to try it - to see what it is about.