Ice hockey equipment, gear, accessories, and supplies are the focal point of this part of our web guide.
Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, where players use sticks to shoot a puck into the opposing team's goal. Further information and resources for ice hockey can be found in the corresponding category within our Sports & Recreation area. Since this is the shopping area, we'll focus on the products involved in the sport here.
Central to the sport is the specialized equipment and gear that enhances performance, promotes safety, and contributes to the experience of the game.
Ice hockey skates are designed to provide a balance of speed, agility, and stability on the ice. Leading manufacturers such as Bauer, CCM, and True Hockey produce skates tailored to different skill levels and playing styles. Catering to both amateur and professional players, Bauer's Vapor and Supreme lines are appreciated for their fit and performance.
Hockey sticks are used for shooting, passing, and handling the puck. While traditional sticks were made of wood, modern ones are typically made from composite materials, offering strength and flexibility. Bauer, CCM, Easton, Sherwood, and Warrior produce high-quality sticks catering to individual flex, curve, and length preferences.
Hockey players are equipped with protective gear, including helmets, shoulder pads, elbow pads, gloves, shin guards, and mouthguards. Companies like G-Form, Jofa, and Reebok specialize in protective equipment that ensures comfort and mobility. The CCM Tacks and Bauer Re-Akt helmets are noted for their advanced impact protection technologies.
Goalies require specialized gear to protect against high-speed pucks and collisions with other players. This includes leg pads, chest protectors, blockers, catch gloves, and masks. Many professional goalies favor the Bauer Vapor Hyperlite and CCM E-Flex series, while companies like Brian's, Vaughn, and Warrior are prominent manufacturers in the goalie equipment market.
Besides the essential gear for players, a wide range of hockey apparel is enjoyed by players and fans. This includes jerseys, socks, base layers, and team merchandise. Adidas and Fanatics provide officially licensed NHL apparel, while Under Armour produces performance wear designed to keep players comfortable on the ice.
Players often use various training aids, like shooting targets, stickhandling balls, and balance boards, and skate sharpeners, stick tape, and gear disinfectants are used to maintain hockey equipment.
The ice hockey market includes amateur and professional teams who play on designated rinks and recreational hockey players who use municipal or school rinks or on natural frozen bodies of water, such as ponds and lakes. The market is supported by a network of manufacturers and retailers who cater to the needs of players at all levels.
Major manufacturers like Bauer, CCM, and Warrior dominate the market with innovative products that result from extensive research and development efforts. These companies sponsor professional players and teams and are well-known in hockey circles.
Retailers like Hockey Monkey, Pro Hockey Life, and Pure Hockey offer a wide selection of equipment and accessories online and through brick-and-mortar stores.
These and other manufacturers and retailers supplying the ice hockey market, at all levels, are appropriate resources for this category.
Recommended Resources
Bauer is an American manufacturer of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates, and apparel, including helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hockey jocks, and compression underwear, as well as goalie equipment. Some of its equipment, such as its ice hockey skates, are also approved for use in the sport of ringette. Shoppers can browse its product categories, and reviews, guides, sizing, and career information are included.
https://www.bauer.com/
With stores in Irvine, California; Greenwood Village, Colorado; Norwood, Massachusetts; Derry, New Hampshire; Allen, Texas; Farmingdale, New York; and Woodbridge, New Jersey, its locations, hours, and contacts are posted on the website, which includes its e-commerce product catalog, which can be browsed by product type, new items, brands, or clearance items. Its affiliate program, product reviews, gear guides and articles, and employment opportunities are featured.
https://www.hockeymonkey.com/
The store was founded in 1994 and has locations in San Luis Obispo, California, and Alpharetta, Georgia. Its locations, maps, store hours, and contacts are published on the site, which includes an online catalog. Shoppers can browse by brand, clearance items, or products (skates, sticks, protective, bags, game apparel, lifestyle apparel, goalie, accessories, specialty shops, skate sharpening, pro player gear, pro stock gear, NHL fan zone, team sales). Its affiliate program is defined.
https://www.icewarehouse.com/
The company's headquarters and customer service centers are in Flint, Michigan, near the flagship Perani's Hockey World retail store and headquarters. The store has twenty stores in the United States, although some do not carry goalie equipment. Formed in Flint in 1976, the store does most of its business through its e-commerce website, with categories for new arrivals, ice hockey, goalie, roller, referee/coaching, lacrosse, apparel, gifts, and clearance. A blog is included.
https://www.hockeyworld.com/
Established in 1995, Puck Stop is a leading ice and inline hockey specialist store in the United Kingdom. The family-run business offers a huge selection of equipment at competitive prices. Directions and a map showing the location of its retail store in Sheffield, England, along with opening times. Its online product catalog is sorted by Skates, Sticks, Protective Gear, Goalie Equipment, Accessories, and Clearance Items. A gift guide, customer services, and a blog are included.
https://puckstop.com/
The ice hockey retailer has brick-and-mortar stores scattered throughout the United States, concentrating in the Northeast and upper Midwest. Stores may be found on a map or through state and city listings. Shoppers may also browse its e-commerce categories (New, Sticks, Skates, Protective, Accessories, Bags, Apparel, Jerseys, Goalie, Training, Sale, Brand, Team, Custom). Its team sales ordering policies, affiliate program, and career opportunities are highlighted.
https://www.purehockey.com/
