CCM Tacks Pro Goalie Padded Shirt Review — D3O Protection & Cut-Resistant Wrists

We knew it was coming. The problem was we couldn't get a demo because every time they took a demo shirt into an NHL locker room, guys wanted to keep it. So without further ado, I'll let Cam explain why.

Something new. Look at that, a yellow bicep there now.

First time in my life.

Wow, wowie, wow, wowie, wow. A little protection. This is brand new folks. Previously unrevealed, although we've been working with it and testing it for a little while, a little humble brag there for the InGoal crew, the new Tacks Pro undergarment shirt, d three o, cut proof wrists, like what more do you want here? Super breathable.

I actually was upset that Cam made me put this on and he chose a size that might have been a little too snug for my over served belly, but I was hot before I put this on. It's actually cooler now. Like, this is, like, got a cooling effect. I like it. Wow.

[crosstalk] It's not often that we get excited about Well, we don't get a lot of new stuff. Everything's sort of a reinvention of something previous. This is brand new, never seen before. See? So what do you like?

What do

you like? Tacks Pro undergarment padded shirt. Couple things to unpack here. Let's start off with this because it's quite a bold showing. ANS six cut protection on your wrist.

Great feature. Say you're extended out, somebody starts skating through your crease, anything like that, that's not giving you that protection. I think it's a great feature and a great addition. We've started to see, like, more companies focus on cut proof, especially for goalies because we seem to be left out a little bit Yep. With, you know, say, the back of pants now having cut protection.

Now adding of this, I think it's a great feature starting off with. Next thing that really, really jumps out at you is the d three o in that collarbone area and shoulders. That's really giving you that nice impact protection, especially on those like roll up high shoulder saves, things like that. That's gonna give you a little bit of that extra padding but they're not done there yet either. Arm out. Off the bicep. Wrapping around quite nice.

Try the arm if you're in a

little reverse. Exactly. Extra protection. Well, within that too, hold your arm back up. Rib protection.

Exactly. For that same kind of idea. If you're into that RVH, you need to be able to make sure that, you know, in case I get you with that underneath shot right there, it's just right there in particular, you know? So very breathable fabric. As you can see, Kevin was already saying how hot he was and now he's nice and cool.

Coolest I've been in a while, Cam.

Wow. Hey. Wow.

Folks, I can tell you that this was introduced. Obviously, they've had it as a sample product for a little while here at CCM. Some of the pros that have tested it, basically, the response has been not to give it back and put it right into play. We've got some junior players that are in it right now, instantly in the bag, instantly in use in games. A lot of them really like it.

This is a bonus, not something they were necessarily looking for, but especially as you get into playoffs at the higher levels, the scrambles, as Cam mentioned, the absolute yard sales in and around the crease. It's actually kind of remarkable we don't hear about more guys getting stepped on, and this adds an important layer of protection. Collarbone, obviously, is a big one. Biceps under the arms. Yep.

Bulk you up a little bit. They make you a little bit taller in the shoulders ever so slightly.

Just that hair taller. So Yeah. So Quick note though. Yeah. Padding, non removable.

It is what it is.

Okay. We

watch the whole thing as.

We haven't done them. Like, our trial is basically cold water wash, hang to dry. Yes. And you're okay. I know a lot of guys out there on their shirts just don't wash them and that's disgusting folks.

So it's Kevin. You can cold water wash these. Just make sure you hang dry. Wouldn't be throwing the d three zero in the heated dryer. But because of the materials, dries fast.

So couple notes final notes with it. There's a premium shirt, premium price point. But it.

Care of it, it's gonna last forever.

Exact well, maybe not forever.

[crosstalk] Nothing lasts forever, unfortunately. But Including our relationship, Cam. Keep poking me in the ribs, and we're gonna be in trouble.

604-589-8299, 1-800-567-7790, or you can check it out at the hockeyshop.com. And just Kevin's really excited that his ribs are protected.

Cam, which way to the beach?

Would have been good if you, like, did a live change during that thing and and putting it on, like, taking it off, tarped off, and then having

it Yeah. Nobody wants to see that, Daren. Reminder folks that that

That woulda that woulda explode at the YouTube.

Reminder folks that you can watch all of our gear segments over at YouTube and you can watch them safely. You don't have to see like, when I go golfing in the middle of the summer in 30 degree heat, we don't get much 30, but when it gets to 30, I wear pants and people are always like, God, it's so hot. Why are you wearing pants? And I always say to my fellow golfers, this is for your protection because the whiteness of my legs may cause a blinding effect no matter how good your sunglasses are. So we don't have to worry about anybody having to see me getting changed and and the whiteness of the rest of my undersun exposed body as part of this.

However, I will say my biceps have never looked better than in that shirt because the protection around them is both puffy and protective. I like it a lot.

Hey. What's the biggest advancement or biggest change from the previous generation of the the padded base layer from CCM?

What would you say? What would you say, Hutch? Your your Matthew's been wearing that one.

Yeah. He's he's loving it. He's just like those pros. We gave him a unit to test and he hasn't, hasn't used anything else since and it's been a couple of months now. The D30 works fantastically.

It's a it's a wonderful material we've talked about here many times. And, and then those cut proof

Wrists.

Wrists. I and and I think if I'm not wrong, I think what we've seen in the industry is a technological advancement because I seem to remember the early cut proof stuff was hard, not very flexible, not super comfortable to wear and now we've got technology that allows us to make everything we wear more protective, which of course, parents especially love, but also more accepted by the players using it now.

The one thing I will say, I think we we chatted about this briefly in the past about and then we may have in the segment, I can't remember, filmed that a few weeks ago. The dryer, I air dry mine, I hang dry mine just like I have with the previous Bauer with the pour on the pants and the shirt, just because, you know, these are not cheap items. I will say that. And you don't want to damage them. But according to CCM, you can throw that in the dryer with the D3O point in there.

It's constructed in a different way. I've had different neck guards that have accidentally gotten too close to a drying rack and had issues with the D3O changing shape, but that won't be the case the way they've built this one out. So you can actually throw this in the dryer. I'll be honest. I'm with you though. I still haven't. I'm

with I

still haven't. I'm not sure I'd take the risk, but according to CCM, you can't. Maybe, maybe don't throw it on the highest heat, but you can toss it in a dryer and you will be fine. The one thing I say is like all those undershirts that have like, like it just wicks away sweat, right? Like very breathable material.

Those always dry so fast anyway. So you can take them out of the washer, hang it up and thirty minutes later you're dry. So that's the official word is you can dry it. The InGoal word is, well, it's not like I can say you It's just, wouldn't.

Hutch, what's your add on there? Well, I was

just thinking that the nice thing about these shirts is that they wick away, but when things wick all that sweat away, it means you better be hanging that chesty up when you get home at night because it's gotta go somewhere.

Daren's like, what are these guys talking about? I I I I I'm a practice goalie for the Vegas Golden Knights. People take care of my gear.

I take care of my own gear.

Practice giving you a hard time.

But but I do I do spray it down. I use, a coach's room on the side, like a public coach's room so I can leave my gear there. I spray it down so those guys don't have to breathe in my aroma during the course.

My aroma.

Like It's the thing that greets you as soon as you walk in the room. So I think that's that's important to be able to take care of your ear because you're right. It does have to go somewhere.

Daren or Woody, because I know you've got your favorite thing. Lots of people are listening to this saying, okay, what do you spray it with?

Can't remember the exact model that I'm using right now. I get it off Amazon. It's a it's a sport equipment.

You get it at the hockey shop, do you? Excellent. Yes. Good for you.

So Power. Power. Power from the hockey shop, Daren. Well said.

Yes. Well,

some of the stuff I can't get from the Hockey Shop.

Yeah. That's true. They probably don't ship chemicals and and liquids across the border as easily as there's other things.

Some things that I'm I have to navigate due to customs. Alright?

Powair has been really good for us up here. Although it the best thing I ever had, was it it doesn't exist anymore. It was from a company and it had, like, a skull and crossbones in a hockey helmet on the cover. Do you remember that stuff, Hutch?

I haven't used it, but I

remember you having it and I remember why you liked it. The the background story on it was fantastic, Daren. Basically, the developers that brought it into a sports spray product. I'm not gonna use names, but this guy had the stinkiest gear from his career. And the wife was like, this like this has got this can't come into the garage anymore.

This is just ridiculous. And didn't wanna replace the gear. And his buddy, who let's just say worked in another industry, said, I've got this stuff.

Now legal industry.

Now legal.

At the

time at the time it wasn't, Daren. I've got this stuff we use to cover the smell of our grow ups. It's all natural, full out hippie hippie stuff. And he's like, it's all and so he used it. And they actually for a while marketed as a sports brand.

And it was credible, incredible. But hockey moms don't that's not a story, a marketing story you can tell the hockey moms and selling it, you know, with the skull in the in in the helmet on the it it was a little too edgy for maybe, you know, a point of sale purchase at counter. But my god, did it work.

I like the the backdoor.

And that listen. Like, nothing says this is gonna work at hiding the smell of your hockey gear. Like, if it doesn't, we go to jail.

So product development, they nailed. Marketing.

They nailed. Yes. Yes. Marketing. Not so much.

Not so much.

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