What Are The Equipment For The Ice Hockey

Hockey players' equipment includes: ice hockey shoes, ice hockey blades, protective gear, hockey sticks and so on.

To protect the fear

Ice hockey players wear protective gear to protect themselves from injury in a tense confrontation. The protective equipment includes helmet, face shield, shoulder protector, chest protector, waist protector, body protector, elbow protector, glove pants, leg protector, ankle protector, etc. Modern ice hockey protective equipment like the use of light body hard plastic shell, lined with sponge or foam plastic cushion. Goalkeepers wear special masks, gloves, thick chest protectors and thick and wide leg protectors.

sneakers

It is tall waist model, the outer layer such as toe, upper, two ankle, heel all is a kind of hard shoe. The front of the long tongue and hard high waist, ankle can be tight, to help the athlete support and force. Now international multi-purpose nylon fiber upper, plastic bottom ice hockey shoes. They are lighter than leather shoes, hard and resistant to moisture, making them suitable for indoor ice rinks.

Blade

It used to be iron bracket steel blade, now it mostly adopts full plastic knife holder and high quality alloy steel blade, which has the advantages of light weight, resistance to beating and not easy to rust. The ice hockey knife is tall and short, with a large arc and a thick blade. Building, the athlete will not touch the ice when the skate tilts; Large arc of blade body, small contact area with ice, can be flexible to run and change direction; The blade is thick and can resist blows without bending;

The blade has shallow grooves to make it sharp and durable. Goalkeepers skates have special thickened hard leather around the shoe to resist the ball hit to protect the foot. The goalkeeper's skate blade is quite different from the athlete's skate blade. It is made of metal, with a low and flat body and multiple connections between the blade and its holder to prevent leakage of the ball.