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How Tall Should A Hockey Stick Be?

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 10 24 2018

It’s important to know the proper hockey stick length. Playing with an improperly sized stick can slow players’ development, make their shooting less accurate and powerful, and even throw off their skating. How Long Is a Hockey Stick? That’s a question with many answers. The proper hockey stick len [[..]]

Blade Grades: Having A Feel For Hockey Steel

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 10 10 2018

In the equipment-centric world that is hockey, perhaps no bit of gear is as important as your skate blades. The wrong hockey skate blades can make you work too hard, tire too easily, move too slowly or wobble too often. The best hockey skates have blades that make you feel kinetic and connected. Ch [[..]]

Should You Grab a Hockey Stick Grip?

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 09 25 2018

Almost forever — OK, since the early 1900s — hockey players have been applying tape to their sticks. While the blade gets most of the attention, for reasons of both protection and performance, the butt end of the stick requires equally careful taping to enhance a player’s ability to hold onto [[..]]

Choosing Between Hockey Pants and Girdles

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 09 11 2018

When choosing hockey pants, you don’t want to make a mistake. We’re not even talking a Cooperalls-level mistake. Long pants have, thankfully, been consigned to the clearance rack of hockey history. Rather, your choice is between traditional ice hockey pants and ice hockey girdles. They do [[..]]

How To Tape A Hockey Stick Toe Like A Pro

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 08 28 2018

Most hockey players take their tape jobs seriously. David Pastrnak, not so much. The Bruins forward has blamed his drunken candy cane swirl of a tape job on penny-pinching ways born from his Czech upbringing. And he celebrated the Islanders’ signing of his friend, ex-Russian leaguer and fellow Czech [[..]]

Home-Baked Skates Might Be The Right Fit

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 08 07 2018

You want to bake your skates. Maybe you bought them online or got them as a gift. Maybe you don’t have time to get to a pro shop, or maybe your local shop is charging too much (FYI, a chain sporting goods store will do it for $25 if they don’t sell you the skates, free if they do). Maybe you just like doin [[..]]

Best Hockey Helmets: 2017-2018 Season

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 07 24 2018

With increased attention being paid to concussions in all sports, increased attention is being paid to hockey helmets. Deciding on which is the best helmet, however, can be an exceedingly individual choice. Simply, no matter how well the helmet is constructed, if it doesn’t fit properly, it won’t func [[..]]

Best Hockey Skates: 2017-2018 Season

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 07 11 2018

It might seem logical that, in the arena of hockey gear, skates would be an especially cluttered segment of the market. After all, shoe designs seem to be as individual as fingerprints in the NBA, and why should NHL feet be any less special? But in ranking the best skates — by use among NHL players o [[..]]

2018 NHL Draft

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 06 21 2018

Each year, when the Stanley Cup Playoffs end, only one team can really be happy, right? OK, this year, maybe two. The expansion Las Vegas Golden Knights and the perennially cursed Washington Capitals merely making the Stanley Cup Final marked a historical achievement. For everybody else, elimi [[..]]

Best Hockey Pants: 2017-2018 Season

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 06 19 2018

As seriously as anyone can take short pants, the NHL takes its pants seriously. So seriously, in fact, the league famously banned a style of full-length trousers that plagued the sport briefly in the 1980s. In 1981, the Philadelphia Flyers took to wearing long pants, known widely as “Cooperalls” [[..]]

Pro Stock Hockey Mobile App

Posted by AJ Lee on 05 30 2018

The people have spoken … and we’ve listened!Introducing the brand new Pro Stock Hockey mobile app! Take the same quality products and services that you’ve come to expect from Pro Stock Hockey on the go! Buying pro stock hockey equipment is quicker and easier than ever with hundreds of new sticks, gloves, pants [[..]]

Guide To Hockey Hair

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 05 25 2018

Picture this:You emerge from the locker room, hair flowing as you're about to take the ice. You had no idea this many people would show up tonight, and you've never been so ready for a game. Even the ref is so mesmerized by the mane you’re sporting that he gives you a nod of approval. The puck is dropped. Nobody c [[..]]

Best Hockey Gloves: 2017-2018 Season

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 05 21 2018

Most people probably pay attention to hockey gloves only when they’re being dropped. But players pay great attention — and they’re particular. There were 40 different glove models in use by NHL players at the end of the regular season, sold under eight different brands. CCM was the most-used brand, b [[..]]

Best Hockey Sticks: 2017-2018 Season

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 04 30 2018

Confession time: “Best,” as used in the above headline, is a misnomer. Face it: Most of the time, “best” is subjective at, um, best. And when it comes to hockey sticks, we’re not going to gauge personal opinions or count sales. Our list is ranked by usage among active NHL players in the 2017-18 regular se [[..]]

3 Mental Skill Tips To Help You Train And Perform At Your Best

Posted by Adam Rosenbaum on 04 16 2018

With the NHL season in full flow and the playoffs in the early stages, ice hockey continues to demonstrate why mental skills training is so important in athletes’ abilities to train and perform at their best when it matters most, such as the playoffs!Just as physical conditioning and technical training are vital c [[..]]

After Vegas Success, NHL Watchers Ask Who Gets Knighted Next

Posted by AJ Lee on 04 09 2018

In Vegas, the house always wins. Or in this case, the Fortress. That’s the castle-like deal at one end of T-Mobile Arena, above the ice that the Las Vegas Golden Knights call home. And winning is virtually all the Knights have done since entering the NHL this season, rapidly hitting the expansion jack [[..]]

Top-Paid NHL Players

Posted by AJ Lee on 03 06 2018

Let’s get one thing straight: Connor McDavid is the highest-paid player in the NHL. Sort of. Certainly, the Edmonton center’s contract extension, signed in July for eight years and $100 million, gives him far and away the highest average annual salary — $12.5 million per — over the life of a deal when it [[..]]

Top Hockey Equipment Brands

Posted by AJ Lee on 01 29 2018

Thousands of places across cyberspace will sell you a hockey stick, skates, or a helmet. GearGeek will simply tell you what you really need to know about that equipment — and gloves, and pants. What do the NHL players use? Essentially, each and every one of them. Updated daily and sliced just about an [[..]]

A PT's Guide to Lower Body Injuries

Posted by Dr. Jonathan Moshenberg on 09 28 2017

We all know the secret to long term athletic success: proper warm ups and cool downs. While these activities help prevent injuries, it’s what you do in between the hockey games and practice that is equally if not more important in. In every sport, it is important for athletes to maintain a "Ho [[..]]

Sparx: The Pros Are Using It & You Can Too

Posted by AJ Lee on 08 16 2017

You don’t have to look much further than Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to see that Sparx Hockey has edged its way into hockey at pretty much every level. We first connected with the folks at Sparx online, but recently met them in person at the SPHEM (Society of Professional Hockey Equipment Managers) confe [[..]]

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