That's all fine and stuff talking about what pads actually do. "This flap over here is 30% more shock absorbant than the predecessor."
But there's never been a discussion like that in this thread. It's always been about what color they are or what they look like, which I just don't understand. I just find it weird. It's not like they were even designed...Reebok or whatever just takes the team's colors and puts that on the pads. Otherwise, they look largely the same.
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Originally Posted by BLUETIGER
What's there not to talk about for pads? They are not covered in art like masks so they are not worth discussing? Only topics pertaining to art are worthy of discussion? How about different performance for different pads?
If anything, masks are more of a generic design than pads, since across all manufacturers their purpose and goal is to deflect pucks and disperse the impact and pressure. As long as they keep the goalie's brains intact, the art is only secondary.. Pads on the other hand are tuned and modified to reflect each player's style. There are lots to talk about.
Different pads definitely function and perform differently from each other. You have modern flat-faced butterfly style pads (Luongo, Lundqvist) that kick rebounds out, or more traditional hybrid pads with knee rolls or shin rolls (Brodeur, Miller) that help dampen pucks and produce less lively rebounds.
I heard Kiprusoff and most Calgary Flames goalies use Always pads, because they have wings. Apparently they have this "sea of red" there in Calgary, sounds like a heavy flow.
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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
What do you mean? All pads from different models are different.
It would be like people saying all hockey sticks are the same as long as they
can put pucks in the net. I don't even notice when a player switches different
sticks with different blade curves.
Besides talking about the designs and colour schemes, more importantly,
performance and quality from one model of pads to another can stir up a big
discussion among goalies. It's pretty important stuff. But I wouldn't expect
anyone to be talking about that stuff here. Cause that would be in the gear review thread.
And Reebok currently has 3 different models that pros would use, but the
designs on the new pads that Luongo is using doesn't fit any of those...
so I'm suspecting that's a custom designed Reebok pad...
or it's just a completely different pad, and "Reebok" paid Luongo to just put that logo on the pads.
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