From toe-to-head, the gear you'll need is:

• Skates
• Good socks for your feet
• Shin guards
• Pants (a.k.a. breezers)
• Hockey socks (a.k.a. hockey stockings)
• Garter belt or hockey shorts with velcro or clips to hold up your hockey socks
• Cup (male) or pelvic protector (female)
• Elbow pads
• Sholder pads
• Gloves
• Undershirt
• Jersey (a.k.a. sweater)
• Helmet
• FULL face mask (metal bird cage or plastic shield)
• Sticks

Other stuff you may want include:

• Bag to carry it all (good gear bags include vents and pockets for small stuff)
• Mouth piece (boil-n-bite, to protect against concussions)
• Throat protector (required in a few rinks)
• Water bottle
• Any color cloth tape and black friction tape
• Skate guards, plastic ones you can walk on or just those terry cloth sock thingys

Places you can get hockey gear:

• Local stores:
• Play It Again Sports, Gammon Road
• Dick's Sporting Goods, East Towne, West Towne
• Middleton Cycle and Fitness, University Avenue
• Suter's Goal Medal Sports, Sherman Avenue and Capital Ice Arena
• Pedaler, Monona Drive
• Web stores:
• Hockey Monkey
• Total Hockey
• epuck.com
• Hockey Giant
• Great Skate
• HockeyGear.com

Help buying gear:

If you need assistance shopping for your gear, Contact us and we will arrange for a more experienced player to go shopping with you.