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Campbell's new Oilers setup...he added some orange logos...

In the pre-elastic straps days, this guy used to be the NHL champ of loose pads:

Tokarski giving some Optik 2's a run out in practice (maybe an enforced change if True are phasing out the 4.1s at pro too)

Hamburgerler doing this thread proud for his first Habs outing today: No pad wrap No mask tape No habs logos Shame he didn't go full Osgood and keep the green pants!

Surprised this hasnt been posted, Grubauer faced the Avs the other night in a set of padskinned Avs EF4's:

Looks like he's gone back to a recreation of the old 2010 Zero G / Pro Stock model. When I went to look for a good picture of them on Getty, it actually looks like he has two pairs of them - one with Gnetik 4 strapping, one with Gnetik 3 strapping.

Although they never got made (as far as I'm aware), a classic piece of GSBB folk-law was Keeks 'Tilt Fly' pads - very controversial at the time because they were hyped as a 'game changer'! Here's a video for anyone unaware of the concept:

As its traditionally slow at this time of year, heres some KHL sitings in the interim: - Anders Lindback and Janne Juvonen (Jokerit) - Lars Johansson (SKA St Petersberg) - Juha Metsola (Salavat Yulaev Ufa)

Moral of this story for beer league - tuck your chesty to show the girls in the crowd* that you're ripped, not like the untucked slob in the crease at the other end of the ice * There are probably no girls in the crowd

As a neutral, this was the most 'meh' final I can remember - underdog vs. a team $19m over the cap, ending exactly as everyone could of predicted. And yes, what TB did was perfectly legal yada yada, but in cap terms that $19m is the equivalent of dropping both Crosby and Malkin onto the Habs and still having enough cap-change for a couple of Pat Maroons (or alternatively Mitch Marner, Morgan Riley and some change - but I'd suggest shopping carefully!). Pity really because I'm a fan of John Cooper and was glad to see him add a ring at the NHL level last year, but this just sorta felt like when the Red Wings superstar team rolled over the Canes in '02.

New retro True set for Rinne (stolen from the Preds twitter):

Speaking of tributes, Kinkaid's new Dan Blackburn-esque setup. Second pic just to show how soft Campbell's pads are...

Noticed from one of the pics above that Miller attaches his boot strap in an unusual way. Can see from this high-res version that he runs it through the pad's core lacing:

Campbell Vaughn'ed even harder when he joined LA - from what I remember in his Dallas days his pads were at least fairly modern, in LA he picked up a pair Quick returns and started drinking the soft construction / V2 leg channel Kool aid! (can't argue against the results though, him having some NHL success is a great story after being labelled a 'bust' in Dallas for so long) Don't think its been posted, Freddies RR new gear:

Reverse retro Quick, from the Kings twitter account:

Only pic I could find, but Rinne is now out of his Axis set and into a True 12.2 setup:

Maybe Daveart is giving us some insight into his processes? As much as I've ripped on him, I'd love to see him host a Bob Ross-style show, just completely whacked out on mushrooms and paint fumes going deep into whatever mask he's doing: "Ok...so that alien head version of the Blackhawks logo I've just ghosted all over this thing...fuck it man...lets get that in glow in the dark paint with a sparkle-FX trail coming off it...and I'm gonna go ahead and just add a robot Patrick Kane surfing the Stanley Cup onto that trail..."

100%, he had a fairly iconic design (as far as modern goalies go) and now has this indistinct bowl of Daveart crap Daveart is a show pony artist - undoubtedly talented and skilled when it comes to techniques, but the overall design, composition and concept is usually an ill-conceived mess!

From Mike McKenna's twitter - Fleury and Lehner, Fleury also in True...at this point does CCM have any of their main guys left??

I know its early in the season, but with a lot of True / Lefevre being seen in training camps and not so much Axis / EF5 I've been wondering if CCM's management started regretting ditching Lefevre... Maybe this is now the point - Price in True with a Warrior stick: (via TSN's John Lu)

Day 1 of camp for non-bubble teams from last year:

Quick's new V9 setup from the Kings twitter:

Back onto gear sitings, albeit KHL ones, here the first True-branded retro setup I've seen: (Julius Hudacek, Spartak Moscow)

Brians just posted up Georgiev's new set: EDIT: Interesting that they're IV's and not V's which I think, covid aside, should of been out this year - guessing some manufacturers are postponing their new product roll out till some form of normalcy returns

Starting to get this some 20-21 sitings on NHL twitter accounts: (Rinne & Samsonov)