Top Ten Oddest Pieces of Goalie Equipment ever seen!

Trevor Lahey 😂 I bet he watches trailer park boys

The single, biggest innovation in hockey equipment was the addition of foam and plastics. My first pair of goalie pads were entirely leather, felt and horse hair. They weighed a ton. Goalie pads today are so incredibly light and can attach to your legs so securely that you could never play in the NHL with a pair of 1960s goalie pads.

Regarding the "Two Blockers" and Dan Blackburn, the non-stick holding glove was dubbed a "glocker" on the old GSBB. Look close and you'll see the webbing of a catch glove on that hand. This is because Vaughn essentially added a blocker board to a catch glove. This allowed Dan to have the ability to safely cover a puck as if he was wearing a glove.

The equipment I used in the 60s 70s were primitive heavy wool.arm and shoulder protection not good.I took the shoulder caps off a catchers chest protecter,and sewed it onto the shoulder area of my chest protecter.I cut the material off the catchers chest protecter and sewed it on the sides of my goalie chest protecter to protect my ribs,also sewed a mesh net between the crouch of my goalie pants Esposito did this.Finally in the 80s,Brown,Vaughn,and others started to make a lot lighter and a hell of a lot more protective gear.Remember back in the days you were getting crashed in the net.Got injured several times,but that was the nature of the beast.What a great sport!Thomas A. Filipiak

Fascinating video. Just bonkers how these guys fiddled with designs to make their play more effective. The adjustments to make the goalie look monstrous were so cool. Resourceful guys. :)

You could have included the Heaton puck foils that had an incredibly short life in the NHL; there was also the Brian's Ridge pant that had oversized blocks on the sides that flared out to provide extra coverage when the goalie crouched into their stance.

In one interview, Dominik Hasek talked about having used cylinders made of hard foam which he had attached to the side of his arms. It used to be legal until some point. He admitted that this had helped him to make the save on Ray Bourque during the shootout against Canada in Nagano.

The overdrive blades wreaked my knee. Went to push to one side and the blade stayed in its position while I was sliding back the other way. Was out for the season. And took those blades off.

Fluery was struggling and the year before they beat Ottawa in the playoffs he was sent to a Sports Physiologist in Ottawa (of all places). She suggested the change, and things slowly started to get better from there. He still sees that person to this day.

Jean Sébastien guigere was a a master in using extremely oversized gear

Over drive is banned in many lower level hockey associations and leagues due to advantage and safety. Also for the Cheater, it was discovered that having a reinforced section along the medial wrist actually helped prevent wrist injuries by dispersing the force of the impact and to help keep the glove from twisting when the puck hits the pocket.

Shout out to Dan Blackburn, i played against him in baseball when we were younger. Dude was stellar at baseball and it'd too bad what happened to him with the injury. Canmore had the nicest diamond to play on by far.

I consider myself a big hockey fan and I learned a lot watching this. Extremely well done and I'm going to check out your other content. Cheers!

Enjoyed this video very much, Thank you. 62 years old and still playing. Yes I am a human target. :)

Very Good video. One thing I didn't see mentioned was the improvement to the goalie cup. Sure made me a better goalie. Back in the 60's arm guards and chest protectors were separate pieces. Your arms would get beat up and there were gaps around the shoulders. Most goalies preferred to catch pucks rather then take them with the body. With the better goalie cups going down and stopping with the body became the better way to provide coverage. This helped to create the butterfly style that we see today.

I live in Florida, I dont watch hockey and Ive never played hockey, but your videos are super interesting. Keep it up.

I've used a majority of these... Step steel, OD blades, cheater, "oversized pads". Funnily enough my pads I got after the rule changes were actually larger than the ones I had in the 00's. Going from 12" wide to 11" wide made pads much more maneuverable and the outlawing of the thighboards (which could have made your list) made the ability and the need for taller pads. I never had a Curtis curve, but I always wanted the top curve part. I even went as far as bending my own wooden stick to match that style. Of course you can't really make your own bends in modern composite sticks. I love sweep checking skaters trying to wrap around, the top curve allowed the stick to be flush to the ice on its side because it raised the knob off the ice (from my memory the whole point of the Curtis curve was to have a flush to the ice stick, I don't remember anything about changing the grip for the glove). You might have a point though, they started to disappear around the same time the "Turco grip" became the standard way to play the puck. Using your glove over hand instead of under on the stick.

Overdrive blades are legit. They’re illegal in a lot of leagues, but for guys with hip or knee issues, they’re life changing. They’re also valid in helping build into getting your main blade to bite, or as a backup if you miss your blade in a scrum. When I used them, I’d always try to get some of my main blade to hit and the overdrive. One thing that’s kinda near for goalies.. roller fly. I moved to Hawaii for a while where ice hockey wasn’t so great. There’s a really nice roller facility out west in Oahu. There’s a guy named Io who plays jet out there, him and his buddy designed and we’re behind the invention of the roller fly. Thing makes roller a little more like ice for goalies. Much easier on the knees! Guys going from ice to roller who will drop and try to slide laterally.. your legs stick and can wreck your knees. But roller fly lets you slide a little I liked the trigger finger paddle too! One more tie in to that.. I learned this from Garret Sparks in the GGSU days.. I’d save my teammates fancy broken sticks and I would re shaft some cracked goalie sticks. I had this passau I reshafted with a fancy flex stick. Thing so soooooo nice for smooth sauceys up the ice. That extra little “umph” from the flex just make it so effortless

Re: Garth Snow.....Every time a goalie is playing really well the puck just seems to hit them, and they don't have to make many crazy saves. That's because when an elite goalie is at the top of his game, he's always in position to make the save, and when he's in the right position, the save usually looks routine.

6:53 I believe that these additional goalie blades would help reduce the number of groin, knee, and other injuries we often see in goalies from push-offs that caused injury. I'm sometimes (okay, quite often) left scratching my head at decisions made by the NHL. Okay, perhaps it's an advantage, but if it's available to all goalies, then all goalies will have the same advantage, if they so choose. Most (if not all) goalies take advantage of other "advantages", like the max size of the goalie pads, or catching mitt, etc.