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Hockey Pants
Hockey Pants contain hard plastic shells and foam rubber padding. They protect your thighs and hips from pucks, sticks, and falling onto the ice. They should be long enough to reach just to the top of the knee when you're standing and the upper edge should cover your lower back. Some players cinch the waist belt to hold them up, while others use suspenders. You should have almost as much freedom of movement in the pants as without them.Hockey Girdle
A popular variation on the padded pant is the Cooperall / Bauer system in which a padded girdle is covered by a thin nylon shell. The advantage is that the pads move with your body. You put on the Cooperalls, then a nylon "shell," basically a pair of hockey pants with no padding.
Sizing
Hockey pants should be around five sizes larger than the pant size you wear. If you take a size thirty waist, your hockey pants should be size 35 or 40. Depends on how you like them to fit.Some Photographs Copyright © 1997 by Raphael Vallin. All Rights reserved.