Patent ID: 8539616

Claim:
A hockey shirt suitable for being worn by a hockey player having arms, each arm having an inside portion, an outer portion, biceps, an elbow point and a forearm, said hockey shirt comprising: (a) a torso portion having a head opening and a lower trunk opening; and (b) first and second sleeves, each of said first and second sleeves extending along a longitudinal axis and comprising biceps, elbow and forearm portions, inside and outer arm portions for facing the respective inside and outer portions of the arm, and a gripping zone provided on one of said biceps, elbow and forearm portions, said gripping zone being provided on said outer arm portion of said sleeve and being formed of a plurality of separate bands being generally transverse relative to the longitudinal axis of said sleeve and wherein, when said shirt is worn by the hockey player, said separate bands face a hockey elbow pad worn by the hockey player on said outer arm portion of said sleeve for protecting the elbow point of the arm, said separate bands having a coefficient of friction sufficient for preventing movement between said sleeve and the hockey elbow pad.