Category: Hockey

New PAW Goalie Gear

My new Protective Athletic Wear gear finally arrived! It replaces an almost exact set I had made back in 2014-15!

The extreme curve of my old leg pads is due to me storing them upside-down, for a curve that is more appropriate by the time I get to the rink. I’m not going to do that anymore, though, as I’m trying to seal the opening when I drop into the butterfly and I think that curve was detrimental to doing that.

I ordered back in May, but it was expected to take this long, and that isn’t uncommon for custom gear like this.

Very glad to have this new set. I average two games a week, so over 7-8 years, I was having to use glue on a lot of areas of my old leg pads. Thanks to Smokey (Former Avalanche equipment manager) moving his shop into the Ice Ranch, I can have him fix things before they get too bad.

Seacrest Inline Hockey Rink

This is the rink where I started playing hockey, along with USA on Wheels (Now part of Skate City). It was pretty easy to go over the boards here. There also wasn’t that big fence at the end, so if you shot too high, you were spending time in the grass looking for your $7 puck. The concrete was smooth, but it would wear a stick down faster than ice does. Sometimes the weather was wonderful to play in, sometimes you just played despite the weather. But at least there were no real limits on rink time, or zambonis to wait on. Just show up and play.