Top Hockey Equipment Brands (2024)

Thousands of places across cyberspace will sell you a hockeystick, skates, or a helmet. GearGeekwill simply tell you what you really need to know about that equipment — andgloves, and pants.

What do the NHL players use? Essentially, each and every oneof them. Updated daily and sliced just about any way you could imagine — bygear brands, teams, positions, stat leaders. Or you can just search for anindividual player.

The point is, you don’t have to listen to what a bloggerspits out after play-testing a stick or two at his local rink. We’d rather youtake a look at what GearGeek has determined are the most popular items acrossthe NHL.

Here are the top five brands for each componenton your equipment wish list.

Sticks

• 1.CCM:36 percent of the league plays this 119-year-old Canadian company’ssticks, spread across 13 models. Most of that is in three sticks: The RibcorTrigger 2 PMT, the Super Tacks 2.0 and the Ribcor Trigger ASY.
• 2.Bauer:A robust 30.5 percent, split fairly evenly between each of their product lines. The Nexus 1N leads the way at 11.2 percent.
• 3.Warrior:Alone, the NHL’s most popular stick, the Alpha QX, is played by 17.5 percent ofthe league. All told, Warrior models account for 23.3 percent.
• 4.Easton:6.3 percent, most of which comes from the Stealth CX (4.5 percent).
• 5.TRUE: TRUE entered the stick market in 2000 and currentlyhas two sticks — the A6.0 SBP and XCORE 9 — in use by 3.1 percent of theleague’s players.

Gloves

• 1.CCM:35 percent, spread over 13 models. The HG 12 and CL Pro are most popular.
• 2.Bauer:32.8 percent, led by the most popular gloves, the Vapor 1X, grabbed by 16.2 percent of the league. Seven other models account for the rest of the total.
• 3.Warrior:25.4 percent, owing mostly to the Covert QRL, Dynasty AX1 and Covert QR1.
• 4.Easton:3.4 percent cobbled together from five models. The Pro is its most popular.
• 5.TRUE: As a new player in the glove market, TRUEaccounts for 1.9 percent market share.

Pants

• 1.CCM:42.3 percent
• 2.Bauer:37.9 percent
• 3.Warrior:18.8 percent
• 4.Easton:0.9 percent
• 5.Reebok: 0.1 percent

Skates

• 1.Bauer:No shock that the venerable company, a skate innovator since the 1920s,dominates the market at 67.2 percent. Forty-four percent of the league isskating in either the Vapor 1X or the Supreme 1S.
• 2.CCM:19.5 percent spread over eight models, with the Super Tacks as the mostpopular.
• 3.TRUE:11.8 percent, owing solely to its highly regarded Pro Custom boots.
• 4.Reebok:1 percent, led by the Ribcor (0.3 percent).
• 5.Graf: 0.3 percent, 2 players currently use the Ultra F 60.

Helmets

• 1.Bauer:43.1 percent, edging out CCM for the top spot by just a few players. The Re-Akt covers the craniums of slightly more than half of Bauer’s clients.
• 2. CCM: 42.7 percent, roughly three-quarters of that in the Vector V08.
• 3.Warrior:10.8 percent, all thanks to the Covert PX2.
• 4.Easton:3.4 percent, all wearing the E400.
• 5.None:Reebok used to lay claim to our last spot but it's no longer being used by any NHL players.

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