“Eu penso que você verá patins quebrar abaixo mais rapidamente por causa dele; they’ll absorb more [perspiration], because it’s all going down into your skate and your socks.”

Back in the good ‘ole days of tradition, hockey equipment managers had heavy lifting to do at games’ end each night loading and hauling wet gear from arena to bus to airport back to arenas in new cities — in the middle of the night. So from the sounds of things this fall, Reebok has actually managed to make the jobs of some of the hardest working men in hockey harder. If Mark Recchi’s right, equipment guys could soon be faced with a doubling of their gear packing gigs each night. Additionally, the increase in moisture about gear and rooms is an increased health risk to the players, especially in winter.

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Posted at 10:23 am. Filed under Gary Bettman, Morning cup-a-joe, National Hockey League, Prospects, Reebok, Sweaters, Washington Capitals.
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9 Comments

  1. Mark Tucker wrote:

    “The National Hockey League; Excellence in fixing what isn’t broken since 1993.”

    :-(

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 10:29 am | Permalink
  2. Strikeman wrote:

    Man why does Betman have to change everything, that guy sucks.

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 10:34 am | Permalink
  3. Kurt wrote:

    Well, this is disconcerting news. Hopefully we’re not looking at a situation like the NBA had with the synthetic balls; and if we are, hopefully the NHL will have the real ones to admit a mistake and fix things.

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:07 am | Permalink
  4. odessasteps wrote:

    Is that 9% more water collecting in the skates and skates?

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:10 am | Permalink
  5. pgreene wrote:

    ok, here’s what’s stupid. weight in moving parts is FAR more apparent than weight in static parts. something about angular momentum or some physics term. it’s the reason cyclists (like myself) will look to shed weight in wheels before weight in the frame. so what ol’ gar’s uniforms have done is to relocate all the sweat weight to the hands and the feet, the two most dynamic parts on a hockey player’s body. result? slower skating, slower shots, worse stickhandling. BRILLIANT!

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:11 am | Permalink
  6. pepper wrote:

    As was obvious already to most OFB readers, Reebok has scant knowledge of hockey and its atheletes designing, but nevertheless they went about designing a flawed and ridiculously expensive product, with the blessing of a commissioner with an equivalent lack of knowledge of hockey and its athletes.

    I’ll never play a game in any new Reebok jersey, and I feel sorry for all the pros who have to deal with all this nonsense. Anyone who’s played knows how miserable it is when you’re constantly concerned about equipment problems.

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 11:52 am | Permalink
  7. Caps Nut wrote:

    Didn’t Reebok buy up CCM “The Hockey Company”?

    Yes, yes they did…

    Monday, September 24, 2007 at 2:06 pm | Permalink
  8. exwhaler wrote:

    Yes they did, and Reebok in turn was bought up by Adidas in 2005. The real question is who is making the decisions, and who led the redesigns. Usually, in takeovers, the company that got bought is usually the company that gets gutted, especially at the leadership level.

    Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 12:03 am | Permalink
  9. Gustafsson wrote:

    Here’s more from the Calgary Sun:
    http://calsun.canoe.ca/Sports/Hockey/2007/09/25/4523909-sun.html

    Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 9:22 am | Permalink

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