Hockey suit

Abstract

A one piece athletic garment provides protection in a sport such as hockey and includes a unitary body enclosure having a torso section, legs, and sleeves and that includes protection for elbows, knees, shins, shoulders, and chest and protective pants.

1 . A one piece hockey suit comprising:
 a unitary body enclosure for accepting legs, arms and torso of a player, the body enclosure having elbow protectors, knee-shin protectors, a shoulder/chest protector and protective pants.   
   
   
       2 . The suit of  claim 1  wherein the unitary body enclosure includes sleeves and an elbow area in the sleeves, the elbow area containing a pocket and an elbow shield disposed within the pocket. 
   
   
       3 . The hockey suit of  claim 1  wherein the unitary body enclosure includes leg portions and wherein each leg portion includes a pocket and a shin/knee shield disposed within the pocket. 
   
   
       4 . The suit of  claim 1  wherein the shoulder/chest protector is detachably attached to the unitary body. 
   
   
       5 . The suit of  claim 4  wherein the chest protector is detachably attached to the unitary body near a neck area. 
   
   
       6 . The suit of  claim 1  and further including fasteners extending from the unitary body for attaching hockey socks. 
   
   
       7 . The suit of  claim 1  wherein the unitary body enclosure includes sleeves and further includes fasteners extending from the sleeves for attaching hockey gloves. 
   
   
       8 . The suit of  claim 1  wherein the unitary body enclosure includes a waist portion and fasteners attached to the waist portion for detachably attaching the protective pants to the unitary body.