2012-2013 Gear Sightings

[steelnation248 101]

I guess nobody bought the 'white blade hides the puck' thing that they reminded us of very eight seconds with the Mako?

I thought the white was to help the stick blend in with the boards/ice, not really to hide the puck.

[SirJW 207]

re: adds on jersey's

The only way this will work successfully is if it is a league wide add campaign not team by team. The rich teams already make more money with the local ad revenue and the small market teams can barely sell all of their board and television ads as it is right now.

[hornethockey21 3]

Just saw a high school game where a kid was using one. It really looks good and is really noticeable from the stands. I obviously can't post a picture, but there were all kinds of other kids there wondering what kind of stick he was using. Looks like a good marketing move for Easton, lets just hope it plays as well as it looks.

[kenneth 5]

I thought the white was to help the stick blend in with the boards/ice, not really to hide the puck.

my goalie buddy said same it blended with the boards but actually makes the puck easier to see.

[Viking 1]

I thought the white was to help the stick blend in with the boards/ice, not really to hide the puck.

Yeah, that was it. Either way, apparently it didn't wreak the havoc on goalies that they expected.

[Harv 86]

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

[perh4ps 1]

I love the new easton mako stick, it looks amazing... If the stick is anything similar to a SE16, I'm getting 2 kreps curve when they get released!

[flaming_june 2]

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

The old man on the right looks like Kane's dad. Or rick tocchet.

[HockeySavants 5]

Winnwell's Pro Stocks are looking awesome from what I've seen.

[Jagrmullet 8]

Is that Steven Stamkos on the right? This picture must have been taken last year, no snow/ice around yet so far this year.

[Louie 28]

Is that Steven Stamkos on the right? This picture must have been taken last year, no snow/ice around yet so far this year.

Nope, just taken at Gary Roberts house in Toronto per his Twitter.

[Kessel'sOversizedSuit 18]

Is that Steven Stamkos on the right? This picture must have been taken last year, no snow/ice around yet so far this year.

That is definitely stamkos. Gary Roberts in the leafs socks. I can't ID anyone else.

[mcawesome 1]

4th from the left, is that Steve Downie?

[flaming_june 2]

Yeah. But I swear the guy on the far right looks exactly like Pat Kane's dad.

[The MAD Line 2]

Roberts probably still out works all of them.

[lennyboi 9]

4th from the left, is that Steve Downie?

Definitely Downie for sure.

Stay tuned.

Lookin forward to it JR, Thanks!

[flaming_june 2]

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

See what I mean? Just too fat to be him.

[aarondevera 0]

Yeah, that was it. Either way, apparently it didn't wreak the havoc on goalies that they expected.

It wasn't really the white blade that was supposed to throw goalies off... it was the shaft. Harder to predict the flex/load on a shot. Seemed to confuse a goalie friend of mine quite a bit lol.

[flaming_june 2]

Danny Briere trying out Grafs..

That was going to be my next glove, but the hockey monkey discount codes would not work on them ever. So I ended up buying the luxes instead. Too bad, I loved their seemless pointer and pinkie.

Do you guys know which page or who uses oggie grips?

[dsjunior1388 81]

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.

[Neal 41]

Do you guys know which page or who uses oggie grips?

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.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

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.

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.

[steelnation248 101]

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.

I thought he stopped using it. I remember seeing an article that was posted after he got his first hat trick. It mentioned that he did a few things different and one of them was that he didn't use his Oggie grip

Edit: here's the article: http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=610663

He changed his pregame route to Jobing.com Arena and his entire pregame routine. At the urging of equipment managers Stan Wilson and Tony Silva, he changed the unique, curved knob of his stick – a constant source of ribbing from teammate – and went back to a more standard knob.

So I don't if that means that he didn't use an Oggie or a different one.

[JR Boucicaut 3789]

Yeah, that wouldn't be training camp.

[Harv 86]

Yeah, that wouldn't be training camp.

Some kind of charity game? Looks like Chelios has USA mitts on and Fedorov white based gloves.