Talk:Cooperalls

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NHL Uniforms.com on the long pants:
 * For the 1981-82 season, the Philadelphia Flyers introduced the decade's most radical idea -- long pants, as modeled here by Brian Propp. The idea behind the new pants, manufactured by Cooper under the name Cooperall, was to create a faster, lighter uniform, with lighter padding underneath. The pants did make the skaters faster; unfortunately, they were also faster whenever they took a spill and would crash very hard into the boards. The Hartford Whalers joined the Flyers in wearing long pants the following season. At the end of the 1982-83 season, the NHL outlawed the long pants, causing both the Flyers and the Whalers to revert back to the old faithful, time-tested short pants.

--Sparkhurst 10:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


 * at one point (1979ish?), the Vancouver Canucks also wore long pants (not sure if they were cooperalls, as their "flying V" jersey's were CCM) 68.235.189.48 (talk) 16:27, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
 * No, they didn't. The Vancouver Canucks never wore long pants, nor did any NHL team other than the two mentioned.83.208.106.104 (talk) 16:48, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Two other NHL teams tried them out. The Winnipeg Jets wore them for their training camp in 1980 but didn't opt to use them in the regular season, and the Quebec Nordiques wore the CCM version for a training camp, too. Neil Hampshire (talk) 12:59, 27 April 2014 (UTC)

Disputed: Cooper/CCM
The name Cooperall seems to be used as the generic name for all long hockey pants; contemporary photographs show that those worn by the Flyers and Whalers were not Cooperalls but were Pro Guards, manufactured by CCM. The CCM logo is very clear in this photo of Chris Kotsopoulos (Whalers) and this photo of Bill Barber (Flyers), for example. "Cooperal" is a brand name for Cooper's long pants; its misuse here is similar to the British/Australian habit of calling all vacuum cleaners a "hoover". Neil Hampshire (talk) 09:17, 27 April 2014 (UTC)