New season starts tomorrow. I haven't cleaned the puck marks off in two years or so. However, I seem to remember being disappointed that I had cleaned it after I got done the last time.

1/4/2010 1:49:51 AM

battle scars, don't do it.

1/4/2010 1:50:53 AM

Fuck that shit, make them even Irbe dirtier.

1/4/2010 1:52:15 AM

roller or ice? Not on a S-1 team at Dreamsports Center by any chance?

1/4/2010 1:53:13 AM

They're close to Irbe dirty now...they haven't turned gray because they're leather on the face and not nylon, but they're absolutely covered in marks.

^ Roller hockey is for fruitbooters.

1/4/2010 1:54:30 AM

Lol just asking sir. I'd have played ice if Morganton, NC would have had ice It's in my veins, being from Finland and all :p

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1/4/2010 1:56:31 AM

I actually have no problem with roller aside from the lack of offsides.

My cousin and his kids play roller, so I always throw that one at them when they mention heading out to Dreamsports.

1/4/2010 1:58:54 AM

Yeah cherrypickin is terribad in roller.

1/4/2010 2:01:32 AM

Roller sucks period. Ice or nothing.

1/4/2010 2:06:14 AM

i played roller when i was like 12 and we had no ice in greenville.

1/4/2010 2:11:32 AM

bttt for more opinions, if i'm gonna do this i need to start in the next hour

1/4/2010 4:42:24 PM

I don't clean mine.

But I need new gloves, though.

1/4/2010 4:44:07 PM

I usually wait until my teammates complain before washign my hockey gear.

1/4/2010 4:49:25 PM

I haven't washed any of it since I had a skin infection in 2005 and didn't want it reoccuring. This is just puck marks.

1/4/2010 4:54:38 PM

dont clean it, it adds...... flavor

1/4/2010 4:57:31 PM

don't do it!

it's like a badge of honor that shows all the pucks that couldn't get by you.

1/4/2010 5:00:16 PM

I understand the idea of that, but the four championship shirts and three goalie-of-the-year awards are probably better badges than anonymous puck marks.

There are three specific marks that will always stay because I know exactly where they came from, but even one of those is on my skate.

1/4/2010 5:02:59 PM

why clean it u retarded?


fuck it keep that shit dirty with the blood of the fallen

1/4/2010 5:09:22 PM

but they also look nice when cleeeaaaan

1/4/2010 5:13:21 PM

if you clean them make sure you clean all of your other equipment too.


but i say don't clean them

1/4/2010 5:16:29 PM

OMG!! WHAT IN THE HELL DOES YOUR GEAR SMELL LIKE?!!!!!!

1/4/2010 5:17:35 PM

I air it out every night, so it doesn't smell too bad.

Here's a current pic:

1/4/2010 5:25:32 PM

my friend who played hockey would air his out and it still smelled like some crazy-ass overwhelming funk. Hockey players are hawt but in their gear they smell like no thanks.

1/4/2010 5:27:41 PM

You need dat old school look, a la Arturs Irbe

1/4/2010 5:30:20 PM