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All Cooperall Game - Flyers vs Whalers 1982
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Spirit of 67
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Wore these atrocities in rep hockey.
Not only did you slide around all over the place, they're also very hot. Not a lot of breathing on the ones we wore.
Needless to say, I hated them.
Not only did you slide around all over the place, they're also very hot. Not a lot of breathing on the ones we wore.
Needless to say, I hated them.
Jtown
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some say that the nhl has yet to reach these heights since.
What’s rep hockey for us Americans? Also I always thought cooperalls as the padding piece not the actual pants. How did the padding hold up in them? Never did try them.
The senators could use them to better slide around the ice.
Spirit of 67
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You would essentially have a house league that anyone could play in and ice time was mandated. From there you had "rep" hockey because you represented (for the most part anyway) the house league in which you played. Rep was broken down to A, AA and AAA. I played in a strong A league. Ice time was based on merit. I think AAA teams are what y'all refer to as "Travel Teams."
The pants are just a shell. You had a padded girdle and your shin pads underneath. I don't much recall the durability. We're talking over 35 years ago.
Spirit of 67
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It's not really all that different from your pants. Just imagine them with a separate cover.
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Eisen
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Safety is one thing, but I honestly didn't mind how they looked. I mean, they are not beautiful, but neither are the shorts. I think it's simply because people were not used to them.
Killion
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For roller hockey ideal... ice, not so much.... you fell at speed, forget it... out of control.... very much like the neighborhood kids today who like to watch me in my more advanced years trying to get out of the bathtub... Spiderman impersonation.
.... Cooperalls same thing. I know, I did try them. ONCE. Couldnt stop laughing. Absolutely helpless, useless.... one of the dumbest advents all time.
Killion
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Eisen? One person "likes" the post above..... 1..... What is wrong with your Generation?.....
Actually could use a pair now as I get older, track pants with pads built in, now I could toss out a knee when people crowd around and don't mind their elbows, cutting in front of you quickly, oblivious to the scar tissue, no thought at to anyone other then their busy selves, hmm, maybe I will don some elbow pads next time I have to go through the Toronto Concourse.......
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sr edler
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It's pro sports. How it looks is very important. Goes back to the first Olympics in Greece where people competed naked. People are supposed to see the contours of athleticism, and where the knee bends. It's not supposed to look like a bunch of middle aged men in overalls battling it out on the side of the street after a couple of beers.
Can you imagine Bure or McDavid flying end to end in those pants?
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I CAN imagine McDavid and Bure going one on one naked actually.It's pro sports. How it looks is very important. Goes back to the first Olympics in Greece where people competed naked. People are supposed to see the contours of athleticism, and where the knee bends. It's not supposed to look like a bunch of middle aged men in overalls battling it out on the side of the street after a couple of beers.
Can you imagine Bure or McDavid flying end to end in those pants?
Both with great acceleration but with questionable defense so when one of them falls sprawling like Hasek into the endboard it's getting real interesting.
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People are forever ragging on the one-piece pant but when they first hit the market, everyone wanted to wear them. Most junior teams wore them as did many college and university teams. Some of that was because teenagers liked to be trendy back then, unlike the the individualists of today 
). But at the time, most people thought they looked good. They had a cleaner line than the bulky pants/socks combination.
I was a goalie, so I don't know about whether they were more or less viscous than the standard pants/socks combo, but given that they were made of exactly the same material as the standard pant, and given that you were more likely to be sliding on your butt than on the material covered by socks, I have a hard time with the logic that these caused guys to slide further. Like, ice is slippery and if you wanted to stop sliding, you put your skate blade down.
However, my recollection was that a significant reason the NHL wanted them outlawed was because linesmen were having difficulty differentiating between home and visiting teams when calling offsides. Look at photos and you'll see lineys crouching down or kneeling to make close calls on the line. If two teams were both wearing long pants, and their pants colour was the same (like Boston and Pittsburgh, for example, or even Montreal and Toronto), calling offisde based on what the linesman saw from the knees down.
Anyway, go back to hating on the Cooperalls. They were a remnant of the 80s, so are a prime target for abuse. Just don't be slagging on mullets.
). But at the time, most people thought they looked good. They had a cleaner line than the bulky pants/socks combination.I was a goalie, so I don't know about whether they were more or less viscous than the standard pants/socks combo, but given that they were made of exactly the same material as the standard pant, and given that you were more likely to be sliding on your butt than on the material covered by socks, I have a hard time with the logic that these caused guys to slide further. Like, ice is slippery and if you wanted to stop sliding, you put your skate blade down.
However, my recollection was that a significant reason the NHL wanted them outlawed was because linesmen were having difficulty differentiating between home and visiting teams when calling offsides. Look at photos and you'll see lineys crouching down or kneeling to make close calls on the line. If two teams were both wearing long pants, and their pants colour was the same (like Boston and Pittsburgh, for example, or even Montreal and Toronto), calling offisde based on what the linesman saw from the knees down.
Anyway, go back to hating on the Cooperalls. They were a remnant of the 80s, so are a prime target for abuse. Just don't be slagging on mullets.
Eisen
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The hell? The neighborhood kids peep at you when taking a bath?For roller hockey ideal... ice, not so much.... you fell at speed, forget it... out of control.... very much like the neighborhood kids today who like to watch me in my more advanced years trying to get out of the bathtub... Spiderman impersonation.
And yeah, they are not ideal. I never wore them but I read enough about them to know that they were a hazard. I just purely meant the looks.
Eisen
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I'm a strange person. I like the fisherman jersey as well and I never got the hype about the Hawks'.
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not sure why a discussion on Cooperalls brings out the perverts
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The athletes in the 19th century that competed naked were perverts?
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sr edler
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Actually the nakedness took place during the ancient games from 776 BC through 393 AD.
