In many amateur and recreational hockey leagues a lot of players decide that they do not want to wear traditional hockey pants and they just wear sweat pants over their hockey shin pads. This is not a good idea at all for reasons which I would think are obvious to all hockey players. Taking a slap shot to the thigh or groin area without having padded hockey pants to protect you can hurt very bad, and trust me when I say that the resulting bruises that come after being victimized by the slap shot are not pretty at all.

Another reason why you do not want to bypass the wearing of ice hockey pants is because there are many occasions when you will end up falling on your tailbone, and let me tell you falling on your tailbone is incredibly painful. It does not matter how much experience you have or how good of an ice skater or hockey player you are, inevitably you will fall on your tailbone. Though hockey pants might not always completely prevent pain when you fall on your tailbone, it could mean the difference between slightly bruising your tailbone, as opposed to not wearing ice hockey pants and breaking your tailbone.

Make sure that when you are buying new or used hockey pants that they have a good amount of padding in the behind as well as plenty of padding on the front of the thighs and groin area. You do not want buy a poorly made or badly used hockey pant for obvious reasons, so do some research at your local hockey shop or even online to get a feel for what type of hockey pants might be ideal for you.

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