@@blairricei think the reason is you can choose one of the blades you want most (the $200 figure was for the most expensive type), you could get other brands blades that fit, or you might already have blades (or multiple sets) from previous skates you want to use. Basically instead of forcing everyone to pay another $100 for something they dont all need or want they give you the option to get exactly the blade you want.
Man playing travel hockey since i was 6 I wished I had the chance to thank my father.He was a modest truck driver sacrificed allot so i could play always managed to buy me the most decent equipment.Dont realize as a kid how expensive it is specially when you start going through puberty out growing equipment every couple years. Thanks pops R.I.P
Going through this now as a dad and I can tell you it's rough. Hope to someday see my boy write a similar message although without the RIP part! Bless your Dad btw!
To be fair equipment used to be a bit more affordable and you don’t need to spend anywhere near this much to get good equipment. Granted, you’re still going to be spending $500-$1000 even on a budget. Stuff like the skates, stick and bag you can find very gently used for a good price so for a beginner that’s always a good route to go. But yea that’s always been the problem with hockey, the barrier to entry is high and it keeps a lot of people away from a really great sport
R.I.P Pop’s …. Now as a father my self i realize the sacrifices my Parents made just for me to be able to play the Sports i wanted to growing up. My Pop was a Truck Driver as well and My Mom was a stay at home Parent, My Mom made all my Practices and Games but my Pop’s didn’t get a chance to make it to all my Games or tournaments growing up but he definitely didn’t skimp when it was time to purchase my equipment for whatever Sport. Now that i’m a Father my self with Children in Youth Sports i see exactly what my Parents went through when i was growing up playing Sports. It is a bit pricey but the memories last for a lifetime and can never be replaced or duplicated.
True, but goalie equipment lasts longer. I used to play goalie and my brother used to play center. He was always buyin new stuff cause his sticks were braiking often, skates wore out quickly and socks too.
@@Peront can confirm, I’ve played goalie since I was like 9, I’m only 16, asked my parents to estimate the total price of gear for me, they said prob around 10k-15k
Except markup on hockey gear isn't that large, especially sticks. Majority of hockey stuff is under 50% markup unless its changed in the last few years from when I worked in a shop
The Skates haven’t changed in like a decade and my APX2s Cost $800 back then (I actually think I had a coupon and paid $650). The exact same model is $1280 (some NHLers still use APX2 like Kessel), $480 for what?!?! They’re identical. The Pads and Gloves are out of control though
@@ChrisJones-pi5mh though you’re paying for the engineering, testing, distribution (fuel cost from China to North America and within the continent diesel is 2.37 a litre in Ontario) so definitely marked up but you can’t reduce a products cost to just the material cost.
No it's not.. this is like the most expensive shit he could find. Literally says it in the video. You can get all this gear for way cheaper especially if youre a kid
@@jakegibson3862 this thread already established that you can cheap out on anything but skates lol. Everyone knows if anything, you need some good skates.
I bought all my gear head to toe for about $250, all used gear. I washed that baked-in sweaty teen boy stink off my shin guards, hang my gear up after each use, and my used pads have actually served me well. As an adult woman I don’t have to worry about outgrowing pads so I know mine will last as long as I keep taking good care of them. Except… the pads are only the beginning; I skate 4x a week and the cost of ice time is so much that I recently became a ref just so I can afford to play hockey as much as I do 😅
All great until you get a concussion... The more better helmies are more expensive cause they got anti-concussion technology and a 100% no concussion guarantee! Unless you feel your kid deserves a concussion...
Funny thing, most NHL players get a lot of their shit for free. I've never understood why the more $ people get the less they have to pay for. GREAT VIDEO BROTHER!
high end hockey equipment is NEVER worth it!!!! Get the high end equipment from 2/3 years back though? thats TOTALLY worth it and what ive done my entire playing career. 2-3 years old skates that WERE 800 when they came out are like 250 after a couple of years no joke. most expensive thing i bought was a brand new, near 300 dollar stick that i broke on a slapshot less than a month later. immediately got a set of 5 (4 year old) taylormade sticks on ebay for $200 total, and havent even broke through ONE yet
Sad how expensive they are making the game become. Cheaper prices mean more can play which increases a higher demand for more gear. It’s seriously a higher income sport at these prices. Not too mention travel hockey cost 6-8k to play in a season.
add about 3 more sticks, tape for socks, tape for stick, a tower, extra pair of laces, spandex bottoms with or without padding, socks, extra blades, laces tool, blade guards, a practice ball, a practice puck, practice jerseys, practice socks (different colors and different fabrics), etc etc etc
Only thing I learned from this was pro hockey life marks up everything! You can get everything shown for under $2,500 or even $2,000. Just shop for the best deals and piece it together
In 1972 my parents spent like $650 for all my new goalie equipment except no goalie pads, they were too expensive for my parent at $200 100% leather. $650 in 1972 is equivalent to $4,694 in 2023. So I guess things really haven't changed that much.
I grew up in the 80's before composite sticks. you could buy a great stick for $20, or get an aluminum one for $50. I liked the feel and control of aluminum, but it took 10 MPH off my slapshot, so I primarily played with either a marble Koho, a Canadien, or a Titan. I had a Christian aluminum stick that I used occasionally. my skates were Bauer Supremes, but I had CCM Mustangs, CCM Tacks, and got a pair of Grafs once. I got the Nike Zooms, and while they looked great, they were too heavy.
I'm going to Zellers and getting a 12$ wooden Sherwood. And when the blade breaks, I'll get a 2$ plastic blade to play street hockey 😂 I still have a Plastic goalie blade, and a Duane Sutter broken stick attached to it from the 80's.
Granted I bought gear about 15 years ago but I’d say everything is maybe 5x the price? Skates were getting up in the high 00s and sticks I think were about $220, absolute max. Those actually haven’t increased as fast. But elbow pads for $200, holy hell.
*I kid you not, our SportsCheck, had a pair of Bauer Skates that were mainly gold color, about 2-3 years ago. I saw them on display for about 2 months. Price tag on em was $2,100. They either got sent back to factory or liquidated lol. Have never seen anyone wearing em since.*
Man I don't know if things changed but when I was playing, we'd minimize as much as we could. I even wore lacrosse shoulder pads playing hockey to reduce the amount of pads to feel less bulky.
Interesting. As a guy just getting into watching the sport, they say it’s expensive for gear but I would say it is exactly right in line with golf equipment prices.
@@wesleythorne6657 lol. If you think Mr Connor Mcdavid didn't have the most expensive skates money could buy at the time, you live in another dimension.
@@wesleythorne6657 dude I’d say 95% of people in the NHL grew up with rich parents. Hockey, as are all youth sports, is ridiculously expensive. TBH the equipment isn’t even that big of an expense compared to hockey fees and traveling.
@@zalapski9399 That number is “common sense” failing at its finest. Most parents aren’t rich, most players from countries like Russia are poor, and that’s well over %5 if the league. All the money that is thrown into “building an nhl player” is nonsense. The kid needs to process the will and natural talent to make it to the nhl, and if they have it they will make it regardless of the slightly lighter gear, or a couple less away tournaments made.
I’m definitely looking in the clearance section whenever I go into a store with my sons. Awesome when you can get something from an older hockey player that’s outgrown some of their gear.
This is such a big issue with this sport & a BIG reason why it's not growing in other countries, even if u get cheapest gear possible u still running up a INSANE price tag. If u had a company finds a way to make usable equipment for super cheap they would bankrupt these companies 😂
Shoots a muffin, “definitely worth the money”
Easily steered aside by any competent tendy… ☠️ brutal release
@@GusMacGus313 lmao competent tendy? That’s steered aside by a 5 year old defenseman that’s just standing in front of the net lol.
@@presidentwilliamhowardtaft5932 haha very fair assessment
@@presidentwilliamhowardtaft5932 then to say its worth the money after like worst acting ive seen to add insult to injury hahaha
Sounds like me, except I’d have no intention of buying it
I like how his video idea is having TSN buy him nice gear lol
Yeah, and they can write off taxes as well so it's a win win.
@@bingle96 you realize a tax write off is still an expense right? It’s not free money
@@harshbirbrar2830 everyone seems to think it's free money. I've seen so many people go out of their way for tax write offs
he didn’t have a bag or any gear at the end im not sure if he actually got it all
It was just a video to see how expensive gear is. No sign of him actually making a purchase
Absolute insanity that a $1k+ pair of skates doesn't even come with the blades.
If your gonna get skates that are that expensive your also gonna wanna get custom blades.
@@EliBlackTVthe price can still be included. Custom or not.
Used to a few years ago. Just penny grabbing at this point
@@blairricei think the reason is you can choose one of the blades you want most (the $200 figure was for the most expensive type), you could get other brands blades that fit, or you might already have blades (or multiple sets) from previous skates you want to use. Basically instead of forcing everyone to pay another $100 for something they dont all need or want they give you the option to get exactly the blade you want.
Ong like imagine buying a brand to car but it doesn’t come with wheels 😂
Man playing travel hockey since i was 6 I wished I had the chance to thank my father.He was a modest truck driver sacrificed allot so i could play always managed to buy me the most decent equipment.Dont realize as a kid how expensive it is specially when you start going through puberty out growing equipment every couple years.
Thanks pops R.I.P
Going through this now as a dad and I can tell you it's rough. Hope to someday see my boy write a similar message although without the RIP part! Bless your Dad btw!
R.I.P pops. luckily me and my dad have been the same size at the same ages so i’ve used all his old equipment for my entire life lol
To be fair equipment used to be a bit more affordable and you don’t need to spend anywhere near this much to get good equipment. Granted, you’re still going to be spending $500-$1000 even on a budget. Stuff like the skates, stick and bag you can find very gently used for a good price so for a beginner that’s always a good route to go. But yea that’s always been the problem with hockey, the barrier to entry is high and it keeps a lot of people away from a really great sport
R.I.P Pop’s …. Now as a father my self i realize the sacrifices my Parents made just for me to be able to play the Sports i wanted to growing up. My Pop was a Truck Driver as well and My Mom was a stay at home Parent, My Mom made all my Practices and Games but my Pop’s didn’t get a chance to make it to all my Games or tournaments growing up but he definitely didn’t skimp when it was time to purchase my equipment for whatever Sport. Now that i’m a Father my self with Children in Youth Sports i see exactly what my Parents went through when i was growing up playing Sports. It is a bit pricey but the memories last for a lifetime and can never be replaced or duplicated.
i played goalie and this is the fraction of the cost of what goalies have to go through
True, but goalie equipment lasts longer. I used to play goalie and my brother used to play center. He was always buyin new stuff cause his sticks were braiking often, skates wore out quickly and socks too.
@@Peront can confirm, I’ve played goalie since I was like 9, I’m only 16, asked my parents to estimate the total price of gear for me, they said prob around 10k-15k
@@fwater9543 same but idrk how much all of my gear costs (pads brand new, $2100)
@@c_hein helmet is like 900, atleast a good one.
@@fwater9543 just depends on the sizing
Laughs in goalie
*secretly cries in goalie*
@@CapnCorn304it's not like you're buying em
Cries in british goalie
The markup on this stuff is a joke. It's the definition of a joke. 😝
Except markup on hockey gear isn't that large, especially sticks. Majority of hockey stuff is under 50% markup unless its changed in the last few years from when I worked in a shop
The Skates haven’t changed in like a decade and my APX2s Cost $800 back then (I actually think I had a coupon and paid $650). The exact same model is $1280 (some NHLers still use APX2 like Kessel), $480 for what?!?! They’re identical. The Pads and Gloves are out of control though
@@huevoosranchero gloves and pads are ridiculous. It's plastic and stuffing...
Plus, I was really just trying to make a Lindy Ruff reference.
@@markstaud Shareholders expect constant profits and growth. Kinda like the new iPhone being an exact copy of the old one and costing more.
@@ChrisJones-pi5mh though you’re paying for the engineering, testing, distribution (fuel cost from China to North America and within the continent diesel is 2.37 a litre in Ontario) so definitely marked up but you can’t reduce a products cost to just the material cost.
I'm still wearing the same helmet my dad bought me when I was 13...I'm 35
When it ain’t broke, don’t fix it
Damn u must be a tiny man
Ya I think I may have actually been about 17 . Sorry for misinformation
@@coop6620 it has definitely degraded by now lol
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavijaOilers going all the way baby!!!!!!! LETS GO!!!
“This is how much it costs your favorite hockey player.”
Meanwhile they get it for free.
Great way to demonstrate how hockey is becoming unplayable for many Canadians.
@Enigmatic Electronic Records Can cheap out on everything but skates.
No it's not.. this is like the most expensive shit he could find. Literally says it in the video. You can get all this gear for way cheaper especially if youre a kid
@@primary2630 Do you even know what the difference is in your entry level 100$ skate, compared to the 1200$ skates ?
@@jakegibson3862 this thread already established that you can cheap out on anything but skates lol. Everyone knows if anything, you need some good skates.
@@jakegibson3862 I have $150 pair of skates from 3 years ago I can still skate good.
I bought all my gear head to toe for about $250, all used gear. I washed that baked-in sweaty teen boy stink off my shin guards, hang my gear up after each use, and my used pads have actually served me well. As an adult woman I don’t have to worry about outgrowing pads so I know mine will last as long as I keep taking good care of them. Except… the pads are only the beginning; I skate 4x a week and the cost of ice time is so much that I recently became a ref just so I can afford to play hockey as much as I do 😅
do you mean that you get paid to be a ref, or that being a ref gets you ice time for free?
I understand the pad prices with no question but $260 for a pair of gloves? That should be illegal..
So do I pay rent or get evicted for skates 🤔
$530 for a helmet??? I'm rocking the $45 Bauer 4500 and it's still the best looking bucket out there.
It’s the zack kassian goon bucket especially if you have no visor.
CCM tacks 70 for me
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija I rock the CCM Tacks 210 simply because my melon is huge and that thing fits perfectly
@@kpov2533 Makes sense
All great until you get a concussion... The more better helmies are more expensive cause they got anti-concussion technology and a 100% no concussion guarantee! Unless you feel your kid deserves a concussion...
Bauer isn't even the tiniest bit embarrassed to sell a 1000k skate without blades? Yikes
You should do the cheapest next
190 for elbow pads and 220 for shin pads is fucking insane
And $550 for helmet!!!
CAD makes everything look ridiculously expensive. I mean, $2,500 is still expensive in freedom units, but $3,500 looks crazy.
“Freedom Units”… 😂 🇺🇸 💵
It's all the same after the super expensive taxes in BC
You're not wrong, it's cheaper in the US; except for Canadians it is literally $3500.00 out of pocket, so ya, it's crazy!
Well its only 0.0277778 btc thats not as impressive isnt it?
Shout-out to all the parents who pay for there kids equipment.!!!
No nhl players use the top of the line padding. It’s all custom stuff that doesn’t restrict movement
That's how much parents feel the pressure to purchase for each of their children playing the game as well.
Shocking prices. That's the game today.
Funny thing, most NHL players get a lot of their shit for free. I've never understood why the more $ people get the less they have to pay for. GREAT VIDEO BROTHER!
It has nothing to do with how much they make
Gotta love how everything other than the helmet is a Bauer product.
Na try doing this with goalie gear and watch the price get doubled
I was gonna say that's like the average price of a complete set of goalie equipment 😂
@@habsfan3632 loll the sr bauer mach pads are 2k in Canada crazy that price is
🤣
Don’t forget ice time at the rink. When I have kids I’m going to have to take a second mortgage out.
Not too bad! In South Africa we still have to ship everything to us and pay import fees.
high end hockey equipment is NEVER worth it!!!! Get the high end equipment from 2/3 years back though? thats TOTALLY worth it and what ive done my entire playing career. 2-3 years old skates that WERE 800 when they came out are like 250 after a couple of years no joke.
most expensive thing i bought was a brand new, near 300 dollar stick that i broke on a slapshot less than a month later. immediately got a set of 5 (4 year old) taylormade sticks on ebay for $200 total, and havent even broke through ONE yet
Sad how expensive they are making the game become. Cheaper prices mean more can play which increases a higher demand for more gear. It’s seriously a higher income sport at these prices. Not too mention travel hockey cost 6-8k to play in a season.
It's not that bad if you are done growing and play a lot cause you will have everything forever
add about 3 more sticks, tape for socks, tape for stick, a tower, extra pair of laces, spandex bottoms with or without padding, socks, extra blades, laces tool, blade guards, a practice ball, a practice puck, practice jerseys, practice socks (different colors and different fabrics), etc etc etc
With that release I’d buy my next twig at Canadian tire yikes
Goalies: "hold my beer"
Cute do one on goalie gear
Only thing I learned from this was pro hockey life marks up everything! You can get everything shown for under $2,500 or even $2,000. Just shop for the best deals and piece it together
Buying expensive hockey gear should be real damn easy 💀🙏
Right in the barrel with the newest bauer stick, wont be seeing jesse rippling the twine anytime soon, gonna need a goalie dustier than korpi to score
This what a high school kid pays to play. That's a semester of university in Canada. What's more worth the investment?
I wish my goalie gear only cost that amount 😂
About the same price as my gear from a second hand store when I was 14 😂😂😂 we really got it rough
Chel players shit cost way more than that it's mostly customize fitted and had their names stitched into it
Bro you gotta do some goalie equipment
*cries in goalie gear* My entry-level gear for getting back into the game was over half of this price
What's the bucket used for in hockey?
You should do one using goalie equipment. I went cheap of the cheap new stuff and it was probably around $2400 USD before tax.
bauer literally taking over the game
I love this video hockey is so expensive but keep it up
Still only comes out to the price of a custom set of goalie pads😂
Would love to see you do this for goalie gear
Haha Kay’s pressing Adams to come back to Green Bay so hard.
For NHL most of the gear is included, most of the time the team manager provides gear because they get paid so much.
Every AA bantam hockey parent! Road to the NHL🤣
In 1972 my parents spent like $650 for all my new goalie equipment except no goalie pads, they were too expensive for my parent at $200 100% leather. $650 in 1972 is equivalent to $4,694 in 2023. So I guess things really haven't changed that much.
I grew up in the 80's before composite sticks. you could buy a great stick for $20, or get an aluminum one for $50. I liked the feel and control of aluminum, but it took 10 MPH off my slapshot, so I primarily played with either a marble Koho, a Canadien, or a Titan. I had a Christian aluminum stick that I used occasionally. my skates were Bauer Supremes, but I had CCM Mustangs, CCM Tacks, and got a pair of Grafs once. I got the Nike Zooms, and while they looked great, they were too heavy.
Gonna be on the ice looking like Megatron with all that clunky gear
Back when I played, all this cost about $500 for new Bauer and CCM gear. Skates were the most expensive at $125
People watching this now with the Bauer Twich existing
There’s a reason prople buy game-used NHL equipment, it’s actually cheaper than buying it new from stores
This Pro Hockey Life location is the one at Vaughan. Thank me later
Don't forget to add ice fees and gas per mile for the roadies
LETS GO KNIIIIIGHTS
And all made overseas. You gotta love it
this guy on his way to say "heavy duty" as many times as he possibly can in one video
And that’s why my grandparents took me out of hockey.. way too damn expensive
As a goalie I'm hurting that regular gear is this cheap
The ol 'if you gotta ask, yah can't afford it'
I'm going to Zellers and getting a 12$ wooden Sherwood.
And when the blade breaks, I'll get a 2$ plastic blade to play street hockey 😂
I still have a Plastic goalie blade, and a Duane Sutter broken stick attached to it from the 80's.
HOCKEY IS FOR EVERYONE ❤️❤️❤️❤️
If you think that’s expensive, try goalie equipment next lol
This guy went to the exact pro hockey life I go to. That’s Vaughan Mills right?
Granted I bought gear about 15 years ago but I’d say everything is maybe 5x the price? Skates were getting up in the high 00s and sticks I think were about $220, absolute max. Those actually haven’t increased as fast. But elbow pads for $200, holy hell.
Except for the bucket I thought I was watching a Bauer advertisement
Why I could never play hockey when I was a kid
Gotta be top of the line. Ir i ain't playin. Including one of my gretzky jofas.
Those prices are crazy
How many brands sell this stuff? Because these prices are insane.
*I kid you not, our SportsCheck, had a pair of Bauer Skates that were mainly gold color, about 2-3 years ago. I saw them on display for about 2 months. Price tag on em was $2,100. They either got sent back to factory or liquidated lol. Have never seen anyone wearing em since.*
Man I don't know if things changed but when I was playing, we'd minimize as much as we could. I even wore lacrosse shoulder pads playing hockey to reduce the amount of pads to feel less bulky.
Hockey is by far the most expensive sport to put your kid in. And that's buying the cheapest stuff you can get.
That heavy duty Bucky is one of the least protective helmets on the market😂
Is this Canadian Dollars?
Hi I’m new to hockey and would like to start playing, could someone give me an estimate for how much beginners gear costs?
Thats the only reason soccer is more popular than hockey....
Also they dont have ice in Nigeria.
welcome to the bakery folks, where only muffins are served
POV “ hey boys I’m paying”
Me goes right to the goalie section
Interesting. As a guy just getting into watching the sport, they say it’s expensive for gear but I would say it is exactly right in line with golf equipment prices.
Peanuts! 😋 Do a goalie version and watch it get REAL expensive 🤑
You need top of the line skates and stick, and good gloves. The rest of the equipment doesn’t matter much.
You don’t need top of the line anything, the best players in the world grow up without that stuff.
@@wesleythorne6657 lol. If you think Mr Connor Mcdavid didn't have the most expensive skates money could buy at the time, you live in another dimension.
@@jakegibson3862 I know other nhl players who absolutely didn’t, ryan migrant Hopkins for example.
@@wesleythorne6657 dude I’d say 95% of people in the NHL grew up with rich parents. Hockey, as are all youth sports, is ridiculously expensive. TBH the equipment isn’t even that big of an expense compared to hockey fees and traveling.
@@zalapski9399 That number is “common sense” failing at its finest. Most parents aren’t rich, most players from countries like Russia are poor, and that’s well over %5 if the league. All the money that is thrown into “building an nhl player” is nonsense. The kid needs to process the will and natural talent to make it to the nhl, and if they have it they will make it regardless of the slightly lighter gear, or a couple less away tournaments made.
I’m definitely looking in the clearance section whenever I go into a store with my sons. Awesome when you can get something from an older hockey player that’s outgrown some of their gear.
Bauer thanks you for this commercial.
This is such a big issue with this sport & a BIG reason why it's not growing in other countries, even if u get cheapest gear possible u still running up a INSANE price tag. If u had a company finds a way to make usable equipment for super cheap they would bankrupt these companies 😂
Why’d you get player gloves instead of blocker and glove?
My helmet was $814 I got it in Madison wi and it’s so comfy. Inside the helmet it’s 3d printed
Could you make another vid with all of it on?
bauer and ccm are nasty af 🔥🔥
Now try cheapest goalie equipment and you’ll get close to the same price
sticks and skates are the only thing worth splurging on, for everything else usually cheaper/lighter is better.
Pls do cheap goalie equipment if you haven’t done it
All Goalies laughing
Because you purchased it the company thinks they can charge more next year.
Outrageous equipment prices.
How much weight does that add? For the big money, how much for goalies?!