2012-2013 Gear Sightings

[shooter27 116]

Random question - I noticed that Jagr is wearing the Gretzky broomball helmet in the Czech leage, what's the reason he didn't wear it in the NHL last season? Is it simply a protection thing or does the NHL no longer allow players to wear that helmet?

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Actually bandy, not broomball.

Yeah, not allowed in NHL.

[The MAD Line 2]

Yeah - HC95, notice his and Fedorov don't have helmet stickers, and Lidstrom is wearing his Easton reverse-engineered Bauer 2000s (he had told me that they were doing that for him, he was never in one of their boots until the original SyNergy.

Is it one of Ferdorov's helmets? The tinted visor seems like it might be his as opposed to Stevie's.

[Gummer12 134]

He used tinted a while right after he returned from his eye injury. But plausible it could be one of Sergei's.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Looking at the sticks in the picture, it's 2002-03. Explains the USA gloves.

[dsjunior1388 81]

Looking at the sticks in the picture, it's 2002-03. Explains the USA gloves.

Fedorov left Detroit after the 2003 season, and Yzerman's eye injury occured in the '04 playoffs, he didn't start wearing the visor until after the lockout, so the theory that it's Sergei's seems to make a lot of sense.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Wait...no...I think I've got it.

2004. Look at small logo on Cheli's helmet; that is World Cup Of Hockey. Explains the gloves, and the Itech helmets (Itech pushed extremely hard to get guys in the helmet for it; they paid guys hard.)

Yzerman didn't play due to the injury, so this must be after that, and the timeframe when he wore tint.

Fedorov is wearing the first-gen composite Grafs.

[dsjunior1388 81]

Wait...no...I think I've got it.

2004. Look at small logo on Cheli's helmet; that is World Cup Of Hockey. Explains the gloves, and the Itech helmets (Itech pushed extremely hard to get guys in the helmet for it; they paid guys hard.)

Yzerman didn't play due to the injury, so this must be after that, and the timeframe when he wore tint.

Fedorov is wearing the first-gen composite Grafs.

But why would Fedorov be suited up as a Wing when he had left for Anahiem before the 2003-04 season?

[stuie7 6]

Ilya Kovalchuk's Warrior Luxe gloves - Looks like the same palms he wore on his Vapor XX's, not sure if he had the same on his Franchises'.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

But why would Fedorov be suited up as a Wing when he had left for Anahiem before the 2003-04 season?

Why would the Red Wings wear an Athletic Knit jersey when The Hockey Company had the league contract? Because those aren't Red Wings jerseys.

It probably was some charity event or something. I thought the vinyl numbers and small names established that it wasn't training camp (I'm aware they don't wear vertically-arched in preseason)

[Gummer12 134]

And that isn't Traverse City's rink.

[TBLfan 25]

In the NHL, the only player I know of who uses Oggie grips is Shane Doan. There is a picture somewhere on MSH that shows him in the penalty box where his grip is very apparent.

haha, I was the one that originally took and text-ed that pic to Joe. Here it is.

[The MAD Line 2]

Ilya Kovalchuk's Warrior Luxe gloves - Looks like the same palms he wore on his Vapor XX's, not sure if he had the same on his Franchises'.

Would be awesome if that was a custom option. Loved those palms.

[TBLfan 25]

That's a similar cut(kinda) to the Vapor XX palm overlay but the material isn't even close.

[Harv 86]

Ilya Kovalchuk's Warrior Luxe gloves - Looks like the same palms he wore on his Vapor XX's, not sure if he had the same on his Franchises'.

My Fedorov MIAs have a similar overlay..

[Homersonic 7]

Not a new sighting at all, but I was still very surprised to see it. Clearly a training camp shot, and Yzerman is wearing either a Mission Intake or an Itech HC95/100 or similar. Most likely Itech. I've never once seen him in anything other than his CCM until now.

It was from one of two charity hockey games held at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor to raise money for the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center, which took place during the 04-05 lockout. Current and former Wings and several local NHL'ers played against the National Team Development Program during one game, and they played against the University of Michigan's players (Angela Ruggiero played for the Wings in one of the games, too) in the second game.

Fedorov got a mixed reception for the Red Wings-and-NHL'ers vs. NTDP game because he had indeed left the team, and he also brought both his squeeze at the time, Tara Reid, to drop the puck alongside one Kid Rock.

I attended both games and got tons of autographs (Yzerman needed a police escort to get out of the rink, too), and Steve Duchesne of all people gave me one of his Mission M-1 hockey sticks.

[mack 44]

Kid Rock and Tara Reid at the same event? Talk about white trash overload.

[EBondo 232]

Late on this, but I'm surprised Neal was in the Winnwells..this was just a day or two after Operation Hat Trick, where he had Eastons and the new Mako.

Neal in Winnwells tonight .. Really showing that thing off..

*Picture*

[dsjunior1388 81]

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151266798455480&set=vb.47297078796&type=2&theater

Kind of a funny blurb ad from Bauer. But why, if you're using the Staal brothers, would you make it so damn hard to recognize them. What's the point if they just blur by in 3 seconds?

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

It was from one of two charity hockey games held at Yost Ice Arena in Ann Arbor to raise money for the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center, which took place during the 04-05 lockout. Current and former Wings and several local NHL'ers played against the National Team Development Program during one game, and they played against the University of Michigan's players (Angela Ruggiero played for the Wings in one of the games, too) in the second game.

Fedorov got a mixed reception for the Red Wings-and-NHL'ers vs. NTDP game because he had indeed left the team, and he also brought both his squeeze at the time, Tara Reid, to drop the puck alongside one Kid Rock.

I attended both games and got tons of autographs (Yzerman needed a police escort to get out of the rink, too), and Steve Duchesne of all people gave me one of his Mission M-1 hockey sticks.

Thanks for the clarification, George.

[icewalker_bg 126]

Late on this, but I'm surprised Neal was in the Winnwells..this was just a day or two after Operation Hat Trick, where he had Eastons and the new Mako.

What is the jersey shore guy doing behind the bench?

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

He was the coach.

[chippa13 1844]

Late on this, but I'm surprised Neal was in the Winnwells..this was just a day or two after Operation Hat Trick, where he had Eastons and the new Mako.

Probably just a case of stuff he had laying around from wooing manufacturers.

[EBondo 232]

He was the coach.

"Coach." Man I wish I got a video of him being interviewed. Never heard so many boos.

[stuie7 6]

That's a similar cut(kinda) to the Vapor XX palm overlay but the material isn't even close.

I can't even remember what the the retail Vapor XX palms were like, I was referring to these from memory (not as similar as I remembered..)

If that's the same as the retail glove I assume he's just stuck with it since then. FWIW most comfortable gloves I own :)

My Fedorov MIAs have a similar overlay..

It must be a Russian thing.. nice gloves!