CCM Tacks Goalie Pads, Glove & Blocker Review — Everything That’s New

I'm Kevin. He's Cam, and this is the all new CCM Tacks.

It is.

What's new? What's different? We've already talked about it. I wanna hear your take. What's new?

My take. This is our set, folks. If you see puck marks, no. Cam isn't selling secondhand stuff. Decided We to bring the InGoal set, show it off a little bit.

The fact that we've been out

testing it. Not as many puck marks as you might like because I wore it and let's be honest, pucks don't hit me. Don't know what's going on, but

That'll happen.

I need to work on that.

So let's talk about the shape of the pad first. That is a big difference. That profile. One fifty. 150 degrees. So we're now getting that nice arrowhead shape style of that butterfly. So what I've kind of found through fitting over time and stuff like that, guys that say, oh, I can't see my five hole. I know I'm not flexible enough and things like that. This is gonna help Always kind of gravitated to a softer pad to be able to get that kind of style of closure, but that's not necessarily the case here.

Stiffer pad, tighter knees together, but still that ability to get that five hole seal. And if you have that flare, that gives you that extended extra out of it. Great option. Not saying this is just for your inflexible guys. Your flexible guys are still gonna benefit from that too as well.

But again, great overall feature, great overall closure, really kind of giving you, you know, another option.

Part of that shifting shape is a boot that feels steeper as well.

Yeah. I'd say that five times fast.

I don't remember what I said, so I can't Shift in shape. Shift in shape. Thin boot, but you can see how much steeper that angle is. How is that affecting fit in your early going cam?

So far, I've noticed the pad is fitting a little bigger, but always the access pad did fit a little bit on the big side that this is replacing, obviously. Okay. So in terms of his comparison, think if you've had an Axis previously, like we're still in around the same size. If you have an EFlex pad, this

will will fit a little bit bigger Okay. In comparison. Some of the bigger differences, shape is a big one. Stuart Skinner told us one of the things he really likes about that boot shape as well as the over that that v shape that 150. What do they call it?

Fusion? FZN? Yes. 150 v core? Correct.

Active rebounds, first and foremost, really it's a stiffer pad from the boot up, but he

That has to do with the core of pad though. Right. Well, he hasn't got there yet.

Stu talked about the predictability of rebounds off the boot, off the shin, and how they're always headed to the same spot. He really likes that. So just wanted to throw that feedback in. Turning it over to the back as Cam has already, knee stack has become do we say industry standard? Like, it's one of the more stable, one of the most stable ones in the industry.

It's got a little bit of give. Yes. They've added this wedge. We've seen a wedge before from Warrior. They've added this little wedge.

I just feel, and we've had feedback from casters, like it's regulation size, but it just for whatever reason feels like they're taller. Which again, you feel taller on your knees, which makes it easier to get a wider flare and close that up at the top.

More supportive down to your butterfly, being able to sit tall, keep that pad up and out in front of you as opposed to sliding underneath. Part of

that stability is there is a bit of a calf wedge, a little bit of a pillow on the inside edge built in. We saw that for the first time in a CCM pad in the EFlex seven. It continues here. Tapered speed channel. There's CGT?

Yeah. CGT material, which is definitely an improved slide. Stiffer build of the pad. I think this slide's better.

Stiffer sidewall. That's what's going to give you again. Speed channel two.

Whereas an EFlex is one solid right across. This one's indented. So less of this material is not touching the ice and you just sort of make contact here. There's less sort of resistance. Correct.

Strap it. Adapt the fit. Adapt the fit. Three sixty. Cam or don't?

Because Don't. No.

Then Keep you in focus. Yes. Bit of a different Still get that adjustable wrap that you have seen. So similar to what we kind of saw introduced in EFlex pads in particular. This very easy to adjust and get a little bit wider, get a little bit more loose fit, if you will.

And then a second one at the bottom.

Secondary strap. So we saw this is on the outside of the EFlex. It's now on the inside of the calf for the Tacks pad in particular.

And the feedback really for us right up to junior levels is if you want that pad to sit high and stay higher, this really helps that. If you want the pad to sort of sit down lower, let it sort of just hang over the the boot of the skate, you can loosen this up. It's typically a stiffer pad is designed to be worn a little looser, move around the leg, but the way this strapping is done, we've had goalies say that they find they can do it up tighter, keep it up on the top of their calf more easily without restricting any of that rotation. That's been the early feedback we've gotten. So what else?

Boot of the pad. We'd already kind of I touched just on forgot. Lock and Lock

and push.

Lock and push.

We've seen Push.

One more time. Lock. Push. So we've seen a similar system from a different company.

But True. When they're I can't remember what it's called. It might be PCS. PCS. Right.

Yes. Much larger than this one. This one's Correct.

A little more subtle. But a different kind of way of approaching it for sure. Right. Like, you still got that kind of hinge, we'll call it. It is a hinge.

But it's not necessarily geared towards getting the front of that tow bridge in front of that post.

It's not geared towards

So because I can now pull it over. See how I get that? I've seen a lot of, like, videos when you're watching that guy integrating with a post and actually that tow bridge kind of coming out in front of that post in particular. You have? Yes.

As he comes into that post, you can see that wall.

Because, of course, the tension on the skate's gonna hold. Right? You got it. So the other part is it I mean, you could technically remove that. You could custom order it without.

Correct. We have had a little bit of tester feedback on this causing a little bit of interference with the skate, like it can catch on the skate and not allow the pad to rotate back to center when you get back up. So that's something

that has a lot to do with your length and your toe selection.

You can change that as well, but just something to keep in mind. Early feedback is younger goalies really like it. Older goalies that are set in their ways and established and are hitting their posts at high levels consistently without it, probably would love to continue just doing it with skate laces and a larger gap.

That's why you have that option of custom. Okay.

So tapered core. Right. Outside of the leg.

You can see how that's shaped down.

Gentle. This is just basically this is a lot of high density foam in here to create that shape, to have that shape hold, to create those power rebounds that really rocket off the face of this pad. That's the

name of Speer.

Those foams are heavier so to keep the weight down they found an area here where rather than have this stick out where it really does nothing, were able to taper some of that weight down.

That's correct.

Are you happy?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, because we kept talking about foam, but it actually has a

name. Infinite Power Rebuild. Now folks, I will say we ordered a set of EFlex seven with sort of a core that was not this shape, but that infinite power rebound stiffness, and we did notice compared to a standard EFlex seven because we have both sets, this one slid better. So again I just think it's something about that you have that CGT material which is definitely an improvement by CCM combined with that skiffer core gives you a pad that you know early feedback is this thing slides like a hot damn. Yes.

Damn. I know you're having fun knocking on the but we gotta get gloves and blocker And real quick

this is one that we shouldn't necessarily gloss over either. Why always go?

Oh, the blocker first. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Just a lot of carryover from the EFlex 11 blocker.

Still the X Core. Very, very, very hard. Active rebound. Yes. Very lightweight, very balanced blocker too as well.

Tighter. Open

up that

cuff. Cuff, super open. Tighter fit hand?

Yes. So not a lot of wasted material. It doesn't get sloppy. Exactly. A lot of control.

Little cutouts on the side may seem like a small thing, we had tester feedback saying this actually does significantly. I can feel Oh, the air goes right through there.

The air goes right through there. D three o in the index finger makes I'm its gonna

Well, it never left. Yes. Okay. On to the gloves. It's a hell of a blocker.

Hell of a blocker or something like

that. It's such a tight fit. Can't even get off.

There we go. Okay. Five ninety. Redone five ninety. Redone 590.

Close it. Closes. That's redone.

And it has finger stalls.

It has finger stalls all throughout. Like I had this one on last, has the finger stalls, everything cranked up pretty tight.

So overall feel fantastic right off the bat. Grip on the index or actually all of the fingertips. The materials in

it feel richer right right off the rack.

Correct. This glove, once fully broken in, it definitely has a money feel to it. Very, very deep pocket plus one inch stock. Not so bad for a feature right off the wall. Nice deep double tee.

You know what? Like, if when it comes to a five ninety, there's not a whole lot that you can do to kinda redo it. However, just an update in the materials of the glove, actually having those proper finger stalls where they need to be, and that same cross form strap makes its return on the back end of the glove as well. That creates a great in that wrist without limiting the mobility. Exactly.

Still being able to pitch that glove any way you want to. It's a great update for the five ninety itself. It's less clunky and chunky compared to some of the older five nineties for sure. I think it's a great update in the overall line.

Think it'll help my game be a little less clunky and chunky? Might have to mix it a salad for the chunky part.

You'll find out later, I guess.

Hey. Well, hey. Listen. You know, it's funny because they did reengineer the five ninety. That's a while ago.

Took out the finger stalls. That they've been more towards this the five ninety one this is more like it's still built different yes

but it closes the same it closes better it sort of gives you all the properties you wanted from the original five ninety index finger to the base of that pump yeah and it just closes back like I said everything they've done in this it took them a little bit to get back to this as a glove with all the additions that they made and the changes and how they build it cut the weight compared to the the original five ninety.

It's one thing you notice too

It's so much lighter than some of the other brands. Yeah. All right. That's it. Cam, if they got any questions, the customizers have been live for a while.

We talked recently about how to order custom. You've got it in store now. Lots of selection. I'm guessing sales on access as well. Where can they get you if they've got any questions about any of those things?

(604) 589-8299 or 1-800-567-7790 or check us out at the hockeyshop.com.

There it is. CCM Tacks, new name, and a lot of new features.