Looks nice, but someone correct me here if I'm wrong. I have heard a long-posted theory that goalies should have white pads to match the ice to make it harder to distinguish the pad and ice from a shooter. That's always seemed a little silly to me, but I've heard it enough to make me consider the idea.
I doubt there is a psychological benefit to having red pads, similar to the statistically sound notion of the small benefit of having red colored jerseys over blue jerseys. That goes back to a boxing study but I could see it playing out in hockey. We've talked about it before years ago.
The anecdotal evidence was from years ago, MA Fleury used to have bright yellow pads. He switched one season to white pads and supposedly played better. I'm thinking this was around 2007 or so.
