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“Designed and directed by his red right hand” (or likely left…). That’s hilarious. Maybe you’re on to something! Awesome to hear about the Hypers - I’m looking forward to seeing what Bauer’s stuff is all about!

All of the input has been great! It’s very interesting to see which side of the fence people fall on. If I was on one team or multiple teams with the same colors, I would no doubt about it go with colors that match. Seeing as how I don’t want to go with black or white (that’s my current set) and tan isn’t an option in the gear I’m looking at…I think I’m going with the nostalgic colors. One of my current teams has Dallas colors with a black jersey, so it will work pretty well, and the other is mostly gray, so it won’t be a horrible mismatch. And when I play in my youth org’s alumni games - I’ll look like a rock star! Here’s what I’m down to. It’s 3x gear - Sr. gear is all this over the hill goalie needs and I think it’s awesome they’re doing custom colors!

Puck, A UM guy in Cbus? Brave man! I’m a PSU guy (and have considered blue and white gear), myself. My wife is OSU through and through which makes it all the more difficult. It’s tough living in the land of the Buckeyes - especially since they’ve been so friggin’ good.

Looking at getting some new gear with custom colors. I am in love with the kind of solid candy colored pads and Kelly green is throwback to the main color of my youth hockey team and carries lots of nostalgia. It doesn’t really match with the colors of the beer league teams I play on, though. It doesn’t outright clash, either. I’m interested to get some forum opinions on if you’d do colors because you like them, or if it has to match the unis?

Great topic! I’ve switched to Sr. gear for my last two sets and have been generally pleased. 1st set was Warrior G3 and I thought every piece was shockingly high quality. Even the glove was more protective than I figured it would be. I moved to Vaughn V8 because of the custom program and a desire to go back to my first equipment love. Pads are great, glove performs great, but the palm of the glove leaves a little to be desired. I should have gone with their extra padded option. Blocker finger protection seems lacking, too, but it kinda seems that way on their Pro Carbon stuff, too. Durability of the gear seems more than adequate for someone who only plays a 1-2 times per week. Both sets seem like they could last for years at that clip. The one thing I noticed is that the Warrior set squeaked on the ice all the time. My teammates teased me about it constantly. I think they had a different material in the G3 vs current Gen, but I could be wrong. I also have been wearing Warrior G2 Sr. Chest protector for several years. It’s been a solid piece of equipment and has provided great protection against even harder shooters. I upgraded to a G5 Sr.+ recently and it seems like it will be even more protective. I am sure there is a quality of materials step down, but the G2 has held up really well. Warrior’s Sr pants and the CR 2 and RM 1 sticks have provided me many, many games of service. The pants have some fraying issues, but nothing terrible. The sticks are rock stars, and only post-goal abuse from me have limited their lives. I know the higher priced stuff is lighter, but they feel pretty darn light as is. I think the feature set (slide grip and such) is identical to their more expensive versions, aside from the weight. I’m looking at the 3X custom program at the moment. It seems like that offering is almost too good to be true. I saw them in store last week. You can tell the difference in the material as the 3X uses Jenpro except on the landing gear, and the graphics are all heat transfer, there’s also a little weight difference, but aside from that it seems like it’s feature for feature. The gloves, particularly the blocker, feel great as well. I’d say the catcher seems a bit more beefy in the palm than my Vaughn.

@WONGER Gorgeous set! I am really digging the G5 sets where solid colors (aside from white) rule the pads.

My current glove is a double T with white nylon. I do like skate lace for the feel and puck retention, but personally I doubt I’d use black lace again as it just seemed like a solid sheet of black every time I’d glance at it after a glove save - with or without the puck in there. The T on that glove was also dark in color, which added to the problem. Perhaps it’s a knock on my puck tracking! It wasn’t like I had pucks unknowingly squirt out every game, but it was hard to forget those times when it did happen and it cost us a goal. Now, I’ve never had white skate lace in a glove before, so if you like how white looks with the rest of those sweet looking set-ups, perhaps that’s the best of both worlds (or perhaps someone who has can offer their thoughts)!

I dig the purple palm with the black T. I second Puckstopper on no black lace It looks cool, but I had a glove with black lace and had several instances where I thought the puck was in there, but it wasn’t...and it ended up in the net a few of those times.