Why is the color of ice hockey skates usually black?
It is not always that ice hockey skates are completely black. Back in the days when ice skates were made of purely leather, they were actually usually dark brown. Now, ice hockey skates are generally black with a combination of other colors. As the game of ice hockey has become flashier, a lot of ice hockey skates are now made with bright colors like orange and green mixed in with them. Even more flashy, several ice hockey skates coming out are predominantly silver. You will notice that a lot of ice hockey skates from Mission and RBK are predominantly black with orange or green. RBK also came out with the new RBK 9k Ice Hockey Skate for 2007 that is mostly white. It was no surprise that Nike was one of the first big companies to produce a line of silver ice hockey skates with the Nike Quest ice hockey skate line in 2004. For 2007 Nike finally merged their name and logo with Bauer to combine their products and thus changed the look of the new ice hockey skate from the Vapor line. The ne
