Talking Hockey Gear With L.A. Kings Equipment Guru Bob Halfacre

Behind-the-scenes stories of illegal jersey sizes, avoiding that locker room smell, and — oh yeah — the Stanley Cup.

Back in 2011, when I was writing for ESPN, I did a story about how the New York Mets’ late-1990s black uniforms, and all the black trim that the Mets also adopted around that time, had been the idea of a guy named Bob Halfacre. Halfacre had been working for a small Los Angeles-based uni company called AIS, which, somewhat incredibly, was the Mets’ unifo…