Helmets:
The most important piece of equipment in your bag, it is essential that your helmet regardless of quality, is fittig properly. Like every other piece of equipment, each company has a great product but ot all fit the same. Once you find a helmet that feels the best on your head you want to check to see how low the helmet fits. Only a finger width should seperate the top of the helmet from your eyebrows. The helmet should also fit snug with absolutly no movement from the shake of the helmet on your head.
It is also a Hockey Canada rule that all helmets have no cracks as well are CSA approved.
Elbow pads:
Elbow pads should sit comfortably on your elbow as well as it should come down far enough where there is little to no gap between the bottom of the elbow pad and your hockey gloves.
Shin pads:
When cupping your knee properly your shin pads should always come down far enough to where they will meet the profile of your hockey skate leaving no gaps for potential injuries.
Gloves:
A glove that fits improperly will wear out quickly. Fingers should not be pressing against the end of the glove. The glove also should not have more than 1/4 inch of space between your fingertips and the end of the glove fingers.
Pants:
The first thing to check when fitting pants is the waist size. The pants must comfortably fit your waist. After that is done you must make sure the pant is long enough. If you are fitting for a growing athelete you should want the pant to reach as far as the bottom of your knee cap allowing for growing room. Too long of a pant will effect your skating and too short could end in injury.
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