by Idoit40fans on Thu May 23, 2013 8:46 am
Andy Sutton is retiring. I don't care, but on the radio yesterday, he was talking about his equipment that he is developing and has been for a few years. Yes, he's an expert, he has an engineering degree and knows what he's doing. I have actually heard a little bit about this before, but this is the most information i've heard about it. He has 7 patents for hockey equipment. He's working with a 3rd party company to test the equipment which he claims is significantly lighter weight and disperses impact about 30% better than current equipment. Its using a carbon fiber material and apparently the total weight of the protection equipment on a player is like 7 pounds.
I don't know, it sounds really interesting to me as it would be the first major advance in hockey protection technology in my lifetime pretty much. Well the first major one that potentially increases protection anyway. Since he's still in testing phases, its probably hard to get much information about it, but its something that i'm really interested in following.