NEW Vaughn Ion Goalie Pants – What’s inside?? Review

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And this week, we're dealing with the ION pants.

And they got a little extra part in them. Little extra. Little built in. Bill, Louie, you

wait You got way too excited about that, Woody.

Yeah. I know. I mean, maybe maybe

It's a little concerning.

Maybe I took maybe it's maybe I took one recently in an not great spot, so that might have contributed to it.

Privates going public with the ION edition of the protection on their pants on InGoal Radio, the podcast.

Last week, we brought you the ION Pro Select pads and gloves. Now brand new in store available ION Pro Select pants from Vaughn. And is that a built in can? Is there a built in jock in this thing?

No. There's not a built in jock.

There's a there's a pee pee protector. That's an extra piece. That's not in other pants.

Oh, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Hockey Shop. That's what it is.

That's what it is.

Or it's I'm Cam. He's Kevin. He's excited. He's sniffing pants this morning. That's okay.

We have the new ION. Vaughn ION. I got ION the Jock. So we'll get to what that is in a moment. Some flaps.

That's a Vaughn staple. So let's talk about the front of the bed first. Then what we see. So some carryovers from the SLR four design. We do have that double flap initially called out here, adopted by an NHL goalie based on

adopted by an NHL goalie based on the call out here. Something we like to pat ourselves on the back about. Good for you too, Cam.

Yeah. Thank you. Good job. Similar rounded Vaughn barrel that we have seen before, but it looks lace tabs for knee pads as well. If you wish to be able to tie that in nice thick overall feel, great wraparound like protection level, this pants fantastic.

That's something that Vaughn's kind of increased over their years as of late of their protection. Yeah. You have the reputation that they were the most mobile, but you felt a few more pucks. They've moved away from that, still maintaining the mobility, but you're not feeling But still able to maintain that mobility. I think that's definitely a key thing.

Yeah. You have the reputation that they were the most mobile, but you felt a few more pucks. They've moved away from that, still maintaining the mobility, but you're not feeling But still able to maintain that mobility. I think that's definitely a key thing.

still maintaining the mobility, but you're not feeling But still able to maintain that mobility. I think that's definitely a key thing.

So this pant does give a reminisce of a bit more of like that gym short kind of style of a fit. Does feature the internal belt as well. Oh. So that's the difference between their velocity line and now what would be their ION line in particular. So velocity, no internal belt.

Ion internal removable belt, easy to pull that entire belt out of the pant. Making it a little bit more wide open for your talking guy in mind. If you would wish to wear your gear that way,

great way to wear your gear by the way.

All right, let's talk about it. What is this? I don't know what it is.

I don't know what it is. You tell me it's a hard plastic goes down like this

is like a fourth jock. If you wear three already, you got a fourth. Pro style. Almost call it like a pelvic plate. Pelvic?

It's not a jock. Ladies and gentlemen, folks does No. No. No.

Hold on. I called it a pee pee protector. Pelvic plate. See, you went somewhere else with that pelvic plate was that I had in mind the whole time, Cam. The

[crosstalk] ions in your brain must be working here. We're getting an eye on that in the inside. It seems like it's hard plastic and there we go. I haven't seen that before. It's definitely hard as new.

Gives you that double ended like double protection, basically.

Yeah. And you're you're always wearing a

[crosstalk] goalie jock, which is two anyways. If you wear a player can underneath, like, we're talking four layers. Exactly. And you know what? Sometimes they you know, sometimes it can't be enough.

So, you know what? Having that extra call out there is definitely worth, you know, noting for sure. And hey, if it is too much, it's in the way. No worries. It just laces out.

Why would I ever wanna lace out something that protects like that? Say you already wearing three cups. You should be wearing.

If you didn't want the fourth, but it's not a cup. It's not a cup.

It's a PP protector. It's a pelvic plate.

Ladies and gentlemen, if they have questions about how to remove the pillow. Hold on. You're the expert. Hold on. Hold on.

Hold on. Before we get to the next I would say a nice call out too as well. They've redone the front plate of their pant as well. So they've added eyelets instead of just overall nylon tabs was a little bit of failure there. These eyelets will be a little bit more durable in terms of that front face of that pant.

[crosstalk] Because you wanna have durable eyelets over top of your pelvic plate. On the back, one last call out here. And I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like this.

How much do you like it, Cam?

I really, really, really, really like it. Cut guard. So they have ballistics nylon in the back of your hamstring area.

[crosstalk] So if you're like Cam and you end up pitched forward on your belly doing snow angels in the crease and idiots decide to skate over the back of you, you're protected.

Yeah. Something like that. Or, you know, you're getting up from rotating and you happen to kick yourself in back. If you have any questions, give me a call for 589-8299 or 1805677790. Kevin was using all of the ions in his brain to get this one together.

We made it. Just

describe in more detail just what that little protection piece on the pants. And then the the rest of the pants are good too.

Yes. No. We don't wanna just, like, just get obsessed with that one thing. Although the newness of it you know me. I like newness.

I like innovation. It's like it's just like an insert. Hard plastic covered. I I know so much foam Hutch. It's just materials around it.

It just basically, I don't know, just inserts down the sort of front where you would normally have a cup.

Is it one of those things that you think, why didn't that happen before?

A little bit. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. A little bit.

For sure. For sure. Because it's less constricting. It's a little further away from you. So a little bit like, you know, when you wear that chesty out and it's got that space to absorb the shot.

Think you're getting a little of that there. In terms of what it looks like, Daren, I think about the Bauer goalie jocks where they don't really have a double cup, but they've got that extra layer in the front that creates the same sort of effect. So now you're adding another layer of protection there. I can tell you if I was shopping for pants, I'd be looking hard at these ones.

I don't know if you guys saw that on social media. It was like a joke for goalies. It was like a jock where you pushed a button and a little flap dropped down and covered your five hole with the out of the jock. It was like a joke.

Because that's great.

Yeah. No. All like, every guy on my old Bear League team sent me this video when it came out on, like, Instagram or off the I clearly, I now have to share it with you guys. It reminded me of, like, when goalies sewed the material under their arms to catch pucks under their arms. You know?

I was thinking about that yesterday. I was honestly thinking about that yesterday because I had one going 18 hole on the blocker side, and I'm like, why is that there? Why is that available? I should just sew my jersey to to my arm.

There you go. So this it's an extra layer of protection. It's it's it's funny because I do agree. Like, my first thought is why has nobody thought of this? And my second thought is because all the goalies were, like, three two or three cups anyways, but why not have it built in?

And, hey, as we mentioned in the segment, it's removable. So if if it's not working for you, it's pretty easy to take out.

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