At the least you need a helmet. However everybody wears next to full gear (most don't wear shoulder pads).
This started off about 4 years ago, everybody had skates, a helmet, gloves and of course a stick. The next year a couple guys started to wear shin pads and cups. During the 3rd year a few people ditched the track pants covering their shin guards and went with full gear. At the beginning of the 4th year everybody wore full gear (only a handful wear shoulder pads).
As we got more comfortable with each other we started picking up the pace and being a little less carefull with our shots. We wear pads to protect ourselves from the puck. There is no contact aside from the odd accidents.
One guy left us, but made some long weekends and played with us a couple of times and he never wore any gear other than what we all started off with. So a person could come in and play with the minimum, but you may find you'll want to get some gear.
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