It depends on which kind of hockey your playing. If you are playing Ice Hockey, you can use either. I use Bauer One 95s, and I recommend them.
There is no difference i have friends that play Inline Hockey and Ice Hockey and they use the same girdles. -- Inline Hockey girdles are supposed to be worn under pants, so often the surrounding nylon is not much robust, and they are tighter to the body.
They dont wear girdles they wear pants
Pants. Im a hockey player.
I am a AAA hockey player, they do not require us to wear hockey shorts, but hockey pants are a neccesity.
they are the same, trousers is the English word for pants
Spandex is the same as stretch pants, unless the material is nylon or silk.
Quality
Shells are cosmetic covers for your existing hockey pants. They are typically used by teams that want to have a consistent look to their uniforms when player have a wide variety of styles and colors of their own pants. They have no padding of their own. The shell is simply pulled on (or left on) over the top of your regular hockey pants. They will have a belt which can be cinched at the waist to keep the pants up. The shell will not cover the kidney protectors on the top of the pants that rise above the waist, but these are covered by the hockey sweater anyway.
Sweat pants aren't knit. They are made of fleece.
Mike colangelo
Hockey pants prevent injure to the tailbone when falling. They also have pads in the front and back of them, to prevent pucks from hitting you there.
Palazzo pants go all the way to the ankle while gauchos stop around the knee or calf.