2017-2018 Gear Sightings

[strosedefence34 175]

Another thing I noticed is Dougy is wearing Frans Nielsen gloves.  Man do I miss him.

[Jamarquan 201]

2 hours ago, strosedefence34 said:

Another thing I noticed is Dougy is wearing Frans Nielsen gloves.  Man do I miss him.

He wasn't even offered a contract by the Isles, if I remember correctly. It may have just been that he wanted out, and I don't blame him, but they (Garth) didn't even try. Okposo too, I think.

Good player, and one of my favorites, but I'm not sure why he went to Detroit If a Cup was his goal.

[flip12 714]

On 9/18/2017 at 6:18 PM, strosedefence34 said:

Whenever I see Ho-Sang's skates...

[GregHenn19 6]

4 hours ago, strosedefence34 said:

Another thing I noticed is Dougy is wearing Frans Nielsen gloves.  Man do I miss him.

Dougy was the Best, Never forgave the Oil for letting him walk

[Jamarquan 201]

1 hour ago, GregHenn19 said:

Dougy was the Best, Never forgave the Oil for letting him walk

Doug is awesome - it's sort of funny that he played with Tavares (and was captain at the time) and now coaches the team. I think that sort of relationship can really help JT and convince him to stay (if he's thinking of leaving, which I don't think he is at all.)

[IPv6Freely 2092]

Who is Dougy?

[chippa13 1844]

Doug Weight

[flip12 714]

27 minutes ago, IPv6Freely said:

Who is Dougy?

[UCMnumber8 32]

https://www.russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2017/09/20/alex-ovechkin-considering-changing-equipment-brands-experimenting-ccm-gear/

 with

So I'm beginning to believe that Ovi is considering switching back to CCM. There's been various photos of him out there using CCM sticks during off-season skates with the Caps, and then there's also this that I saw earlier: he was wearing what looks like Tacks line skates. 

[GoalForFun 176]

He's been switching back and forth with his gloves but it seems like he likes the skates and the stick.

[jared9356 39]

Wearing a Resistance/Tacks 710 as well.

Hard to believe that he's never experimented (to my knowledge) with any Warrior products. 

[JR Boucicaut 3797]

Warrior has sampled him.

[aintitthelife98 28]

It will be interesting to see if he goes exclusive with anyone or switches around all year.  Looked like in the game last night he was all CCM except his gloves and pants though I was watching on my phone so may have missed something. 

[215BroadStBullies610 435]

Him going back to CCM reminds me of when he first played in the NHL. Fun for him when he didn't have to the win the Stanley Cup each year...

[JGraz15 53]

Tacks AS1?

[Fletch 219]

What kind of steel is that?  Step black?

[GoalForFun 176]

Yup. What radius does he use? He only has like 3" of contact.

[Cavs019 708]

Drouin was using something akin to the old AK27 last night. My first thought was he found some old Kovalev stock lying around in the MTL stick room :)

[JR Boucicaut 3797]

29 minutes ago, Cavs019 said:

Drouin was using something akin to the old AK27 last night. My first thought was he found some old Kovalev stock lying around in the MTL stick room :)

Nope.  It's new.

7 hours ago, JGraz15 said:

Tacks AS1?

Yes

[JR Boucicaut 3797]

7 hours ago, GoalForFun said:

Yup. What radius does he use? He only has like 3" of contact.

3" of contact on a skate blade that size is actually a pretty long radius...

[Jason 65]

Here is another look at the Drouin Warrior stick. Does look a lot like an AK27 and has what seems to be an AK logo on it. 

[Stewie 721]

I think warriors doing another retro run with AK stick graphics on Alpha sticks similar to the QRL "dolomite". not sure what levels though. 

[Jason 65]

Makes sense. When is the Covert line due for an update?

[tcraig 42]

2 hours ago, Stewie said:

I think warriors doing another retro run with AK stick graphics on Alpha sticks similar to the QRL "dolomite". not sure what levels though. 

That's my bet as well - this pic from the Warrior twitter account a bit back points to that as well. 

https://imgur.com/sfkHg3T

[GoalForFun 176]

4 hours ago, JR Boucicaut said:

3" of contact on a skate blade that size is actually a pretty long radius...

Is it? Doesn't seem like it. Interesting.