Keeping your gear alive with a hockey glove repair kit
If you've been playing for more than a season, you've probably looked down at your palm and realized a hockey glove repair kit is about to become your new best friend. It always starts the same way: a tiny thinning of the material right where the butt-end of your stick sits, and before you know it, you've got a hole big enough to poke a finger through. It's frustrating because the rest of the glove usually looks fine. The padding is still stiff, the backhand protection is solid, and you've finally broken them in so they feel like a second skin. Throwing them away just because the palm is shot feels like a waste of a good hundred bucks or more. ...