Social Bookmarks What's This? Category Sites. U7 Initiation Program. View All Our Sponsors. Signup to receive email or text messages for the teams you want to follow. With concerns about concussions also on the rise, helmets have never been more important, How safe is hockey? Pair your helmet with a face-shield or cage for full head and facial protection on the ice! Visors protect your eyes while full shields protect your face and teeth.
Safety first. Especially with bhigh sticks and checks. Developments in helmet design and technology can change over a period of years. An uncertified helmet may also prevent you from participating in certain leagues. In any case, it is necessary to have an awareness and knowledge of helmet safety and regulations. The number one reason helmets expire is for your safety. If your helmet is beyond its expiration date, you should replace it to guarantee the well-being of your brain.
In Canada there is no Expiration date. But helmets should be replaced around the same time. When it comes to hockey helmets there are some main factors that can lessen the life of a hockey helmet. In Canada the certification that is needed is by CSA.
In Canada, as long as the CSA sticker is on the helmet it is good for as long as the helmet lasts. Where you might run into an issue as a Canadian is if you are travelling to the states to play in a hockey tournament. This is why it is important to purchase a new helmet and try not to buy used unless the date is good on the HECC sticker.
There are other issues with buying used that we will look at in another subheading. Hockey helmets need to be certified because in order to ensure the safety of the helmet, they need to meet the standards put in place the CSA and ASTM which is the American Society and Testing and Materials.
Once the equipment meets the standards then HECC places the expiry date on the helmet. Again the expiry date is only required in the US and in Canada there is no expiry date. They are a non-profit organization which USA Hockey requested to be created in The purpose for creating HECC was to have an independent body to certify amateur hockey equipment, mainly hockey helmets.
They are put in place to make sure the manufacturers of certain hockey equipment are making their products in the best and safest way possible and meeting the standards put in place by the ASTM and CSA. ASTM standard are used in all walks of life from scientists to architects to government bodies using them in their codes, regulations and laws.
They are one of the largest standard developing organizations in the world. They have been around for years. Any player playing in a USA Hockey sanctioned event or league up to the age of 21 Mites through Juniors or any player playing in a high school event played under the Federation of High School playing rules must wear an HECC certified helmet and an HECC certified facemask, or an HECC certified goaltender helmet and facemask while participating in that event or league.
Players participating in other leagues should review the rule book for their particular league to determine whether HECC certified helmets are required. The HECC web site www. If the helmet does not appear in this section it is not currently HECC certified and cannot be used in a sanctioned event or league requiring HECC certified equipment.
I have heard lately that some manufacturers have been placing HECC certification stickers on non-certified helmets. That has occurred and HECC has taken legal action to correct that occurrence.
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