Team Canada Throwbacks

Ann-Renee Desbiens was set to debut a special set of new CCM All Out Custom EFlex 5 at the World Championships in Halifax before the tournament was postponed this week but now that they’ve leaked online we can share the special story behind her CCM Heaton tribute.

And no, it had nothing to do with matching Martin Brodeur’s 2002 Olympics set.

Desbiens chose the design because she wore CCM Heaton Helite 10 pads as an 11-year-old and at the famous Quebec Pee Wee tournament, but there was one very notable exception for her new set up: this time she got the matching Heaton design on her gloves too.

“Growing up, money was a little tight so I would just get whatever we could find at used stores and it was never matching,” Desbiens told InGoal Magazine. “I think I got my first matching set when I was probably 16 or 17, so pretty late. They were CCM too, they were the same colors, mainly black, red and white, so kind of the reverse of these and I debated putting the exact same gloves as what it used to have, but I was like ‘no, I like matching more nowadays.’”