Hockey Garage Sale
I saw this link on mgoblue about the Ice Hockey Garage Sale.
http://mgoblue.com/ice-hockey/article.aspx?id=172886
Has anyone actually been? Is it worth getting up on a Saturday at 8:30 to get the good stuff or is it mostly a waste of time?
I went last year after saying for years I was going to go. Basically, if you're not there before about 4:30 or 5, you're going to be pretty far back in line. It's crazy. Entire youth hockey teams and beer league-types line up from the crack of dawn to get a shot at ridiculously, absurdly cheap hockey equipment.
Is it worth it? I got some good stuff last year, but I don't play hockey, so I was basically there for the track suits the team wore, a practice jersey, and whatever else looked interesting. It's a free-for-all with people literally rifling through everything and grabbing whatever they can.
It's cool to go once, or if you're a hockey player and really need the gear, but probably not worth more than that. I don't know how much good stuff they'll have this year, no one really knows what they'll be getting rid of. I would assume it'll be less stuff than last year when they were liquidating the Nike gear.
Cool, thanks for the info. I don't play either (sadly), but I might go anyway to check it out and see what's for. Thanks.
Last year I lived right across the street from Yost, dragged myself out of bed at 4 in the morning, and still wound up around the corner at Yost. My intention was to pick up some stuff, at the very least for broomball, but with an eye on finally getting around to playing hockey, (which took me about 6 months after the hockey sale to finally start doing, but I did get around to it eventually). If you have any interest in playing hockey eventually, it is a great way to get shin pads, shoulder pads and elbow pads. If you are part of the early group, you can grab sticks or gloves, but not both. I got a pair of lightly used vapor XXXX gloves with Michigan stitched on them for $25 last year (they retail for something like $180). My buddy got two Easton Synergy sticks for $180, which was something like half off. And the work out clothing was extremely cheap, and easy to get to, since everyone else was going for the hockey equipment. I'm going again this year, not with any particular purchase in mind, but knowing that I will be happy that I went.
Anybody know what price ranges gear usually goes for? I'm assuming sticks are the first to go, but I was wondering how much those usually run. Any other ideas about typical prices for various pieces of equipment would be great.
The sticks were about $90 each (which sounds expensive, but is a fantastic price for the sticks that they are selling). New gloves were $40, used $25. The shin pads were $10, shoulder pads $15...and I can't remember the elbow pads. I didn't get pants there, but they do the two piece shell, and I think that both pieces ended up around $40. You could pick up cages for $5, and the helmet was $20, I think.
Of course, these prices are the best of my recollection from last year. The important thing to remember is that no matter what the prices are, they are going to be the best prices you are going to find on some really good equipment pretty much anywhere.
Are these the winged helmets!? If so, are they gone instantaneously?
They had game helmets for ?$75? with the wings on them, but the cages removed, and then they had plain blue shell practice helmets for ?$30?. Exact same as the game helmets, just without the taped-on wings. Cages were 5 bucks.
I should add, though, that word on the street was that this was the first time they ever had game helmets, so I wouldn't bank on that.
I need a new pair of pants pretty bad, with or without the UM shell...
I have some buddies who live over on Granger, just around the corner. Anyone want to camp out Friday night? Switch off between standing in line and playing some beerpong?
Do they sell the goalie equipment? Is it also absurdly cheap?
I remember there being a ton of goalie sticks, but the rest of the goalie equipment was ridiculously expensive. The masks were in the high 3-figures (if not thousands), as I recall, and they all sold.