New Player Information and Tips
HOCKEY EQUIPMENT
If you have decided that you want to play some inline hockey, here is a list of required/recommended equipment.
REQUIRED
- Skates and Socks: preferably inline hockey skates and long socks
- Shinguards
- Hockey Helmet with face shield
- Elbow Pads
- Gloves
- Hockey Stick: usually needs to be cut to fit and determine if the player uses a right or left handed stick (may not be the same as which hand they use to write with). Usually comes in youth, jr, interm, and senior sizes.
- Water Bottle: preferably with a long straw, so kids don't have to remove their helmets to drink.
- Jersey: blue or grey shirt if you don't have a jersey yet
RECOMMENDED
- Mouthguard
- Cup Pants (for boys)
- Padded Pants (for those learning to skate still)
- Stick Blade Guards: to protect your stick blade and make it last longer. Stick Blade Guard
- Sock Tape or Electric Tape: to help keep gear in place (elbow pads/knee pads)
- Hockey Tape: gives grip to the stick blade (or helps keep the guard in place
- Hockey Puck: we use the Green Biscuit pucks
Please ask regarding gear we may have available.
On island, Ice Palace has a small equipment section.
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