From hand-stitched sweaters to custom coffee sweeteners to late-night moves, equipment managers help power the NHL.
No detail was considered too small — staffers had center Nic Dowd try his helmet on after noticing he got a haircut — and they stood ready on the bench as the puck dropped Thursday night. When forward Tom Wilson shattered his stick on his first shift, he didn’t need to come off the ice. Within seconds, a replacement stick was hanging midair over the boards via an equipment staffer, and Wilson simply picked it up in-stride as he caught up to a loose puck.
“They’re the unsung heroes,” Wilson said of the Capitals’ equipment crew, but he also could have been talking about any of the other 31 staffs across the NHL. Perhaps more than in any other professional sport, equipment teams must work in concert to transport, set up and maintain thousands of pounds of gear over an 82-game schedule. The product on the ice relies on that collaboration and seamless execution of never-ending tasks., the Capitals’ equipment manager.
, the Los Angeles Kings’ equipment manager who also serves as the president of SPHEM. “We all respect what we do. We all rely on each other.” Home teams must follow a standardized list of hosting requirements; it includes providing table saws to cut sticks and exhaust for skate sharpeners. Every day, teams across the league open up their equipment rooms to help rivals: Granger’s staff assisted a visiting team as it made a uniform for a newly acquired player at the trade deadline this year. Before a game last week, the Nashville Predators brought extra gear to Winnipeg for a player they had traded to the Jets earlier this season.
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