From 22hockey.com:
http://22hockey.com/nhl-tests-prototype-goalie-gear-sizing
NEW YORK, NY – The NHL’s competition committee has formed a group to examine the size and configuration of goalie equipment this summer, and it appears that the first prototypes are already being tested.
22hockey was contacted by an anonymous employee at an NHL testing facility with the first known picture of the new goalie equipment prototypes. The picture was taken with a cellular phone, in order to avoid alerting NHL security at the facility.
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From what our experts can gather from the digital photograph, it appears that the prototype sizing has been substantially reduced from current legal sizing.
The goalie’s leg pads appear to be no larger than 30” in length by 9” in width. The current max legal sizing is 38” in length by 11” in width. The goalie’s gloves are tougher to gauge, but our experts have estimated them to be about 25 percent smaller than current regulation sizing.
It remains unknown if the NHL plans to reduce the size of the chest protector or the pants. Speculation among experts suggests that the NHL plans to test a 30 percent reduction in those pieces of equipment before making a decision.
There is belief among top NHL officials and committee members that a large reduction in the size of goalie equipment would increase scoring. Testing of these changes to equipment was authorized after unanimous consent in a February meeting of all 30 NHL general managers.
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5 months ago
Why don't they just make the goals a little bigger? That would increase scoring while at the same time guaranteeing the complete safety of NHL goalies.
5 months ago
I'm tired of changing the game for fans who cant decide to like hockey or not. Screw em, keep the game the same! Hockey is fine, its the fans who aren't truly fans that are destroying the game most of us grew up playing and loving.
5 months ago
how can anybody detract from these changes? After looking at that picture i see nothing wrong with that.The guy actually looks like a human being.something goalies haven't looked like in the past several years!!!
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