Vaughn Goalie Suspenders

Well, I'm not a suspender guy myself, Daren, as we know. And as we've told the story in the past, that's probably a stupid thing because it once cost me an appendix. But but these suspenders are designed specifically for goaltenders, and they're a first of their kind from our friends over at Vaughn. So with all the details on how they actually work, let's let Cam figure it. He's he's a suspender guy.

He can explain. Cameron, why am I holding Vaughn pants that we've already thought about?

You for a quick moment because we're talking about Vaughn suspenders today.

And I care about Vaughn suspenders because

Cat's goalie specific suspenders seems to be a common theme this year. So now we've got talked about the Warrior ones before.

Hold on. Hold on. I thought they never had them before. They didn't. So that's why we're talking about because it's new.

Yeah. Not because you wanted to go on a little suspender rant for the last couple of weeks, but because it's new.

Come

on. You missed your cue.

Come on. I didn't wanna get a suspension out of it.

Oh, god. Okay. You think we actually scripted that. Believe me. That's actually off the top of his head.

[crosstalk] Folks, welcome back to the Hockey Shop Source for Sports where we have the first ever Vaughn goalie suspenders. Yes. This is new. Yes. Alright.

Okay. Now walk me through what makes it different.

Okay. So Vaughn goalie suspenders. We can actually look at them on the pant here. K. We've used a Vaughn specific pant.

You can use this with any pant. Let's be clear here. Any pants that's got the buttons and then even then if you still had it into an issue, you could technically tie these through if you really, really wanted to. But since these ones have the buttons, we've just shown them nice leather attachment, very durable attachment to be able to pop on. What do you see normally is some of those, like, other spinners and those rubber, tabs.

They tend to sort of, like, split and degrade kind of over time. So, again, switching that into that leather, a nice added durability feature. Now where it comes into goalie specific things is not having those clips on the front of your suspenders. So that's another Oh, because the clips could break. Exactly.

Especially if you're that tuck in guy running those suspenders up and over top, which I do recommend. This keeps all of those buckles away. It actually hides everything, which should be in theory on the back.

Hold on. Does it hide everything or does it hide everything? Just keep going.

And I thought my jokes were bad.

Are you wait wait wait till we play this back and you hear how you said the word everything. Everything. K.

So on the backside, that is where you'll find your adjustments for the actual suspenders itself to tighten them down or loosen them up. The nice large plate so that can be able to see.

I also noticed like the material. This is what we see high wear on on their pads. They've got the high wear material for all this, so it's not gonna get

Pop quiz. What's what's Vaughn's high wear material called?

I don't know because it's so much like Brian's Primo that I get confused. So they're quick slide material.

So they're quick slide material. There we go. That's not sliding anywhere on the back of

But it's high wear. That's why it's there. Yes. Exactly. Which is why I wanted to call it out, Cameron.

So again, large anchor point in the back itself. Two, you could actually leave it on, be able to take it off super easy if you really wanted to. Again, depending on how you're putting on your gear, it's really up to you.

Cam, I got a couple of things over here that look like they belong to this.

[crosstalk] So furthermore, there's two. There is two. So say I was running those suspenders over top of my chest protector and I wanted to anchor them over top of my shoulder floaters for whatever reason and I don't want it to bring down that chest a little bit more, I could be able to pop that on as well. Afterwards, you'll be to hold that suspender down and anchor it a bit better.

And if you do it properly Yeah. I was like, Cam, you'll actually

see the Vaughn logo. Show them all of you.

So I'm not gonna get into why I would wanna pull my chest protector down, but I guess mobility neck.

You know what?

If you were Some people like it. Some people like it.

You were having some issues in terms of being able to back out of the driveway, turn your head, especially on any post integration or anything like that, and you found that your shoulder floaters were in the way. This is a way to kinda pull them down, but you are technically reducing your overall presence in terms of size.

But I never backed out of the driveway while wearing a chest protector, but that's good to

know, Cam. I'd fix the same on video one.

Okay. If you got any questions, good accessory, new one from Vaughn, integrates with their pants with other pants as Cam mentioned, especially if it's got the buckles. Where can they get you for questions?

Sorry. Was leaving us in suspense there.

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In hearing that then, Woody, will you consider strapping on the suspenders?

I have been meaning to. Cam sort of set me up and showed me how to use it. Cam's very good at suspender setups. I I have always struggled, Daren. I mean, let's be honest.

I'm a guy who likes to cheat out there. Anything I can do to make myself look bigger. So the idea of attaching anything that sort of keeps things down from my chest protector has never appealed to me. But I will say Cam set me up one day in the Hockey Shop. We went through the whole thing and it felt so connected that I can see the value.

And, you know, especially if you're a goalie who's having a little trouble, and I don't have this trouble with the way I've got my stuff set up. But if you are a goalie that's having a little trouble with sort of the chin of your mask and the shoulder floaters or the neck of your chest protector interference, like you're trying to look around and it's getting caught up, like a suspender can help sort of hold that chest portion in place so you don't have that. So there's definitely value there. I've just been a little slow to adopt, but I promise Cam. It's like listen.

This is not our New Year's episode, but I am making a New Year's resolution right here on the spot ahead of Christmas. I am going to try suspenders and give it an earnest shot. We're not going dangler yet, Daren, but I'm gonna give suspenders an earnest shot in 2026. And you tuck. Correct?

I don't tuck. Oh, you don't tuck. It's part of the challenge. But I did like he got me set up in a way that felt good. And again, the stupidity of not tucking, given my history and and and the bizarre injury it includes with an exposed appendix from a chest protector as I counter rotated like crazy moving one way and the pants the other way.

Like, it's absurd that I don't tuck. It's absurd that I don't have a suspender. But I think we've already established and by episode 333 that I am not the brightest light bulb on the ceiling.