Thursday, November 15, 2012

Selection Budget Service


Why has Hockeytron.com become the #1 team, school and organization website to get hockey equipment?

 Customized hockey equipment bag with custom logo <br> TRON Locker Bag with Skate Pockets


Customized hockey equipment bag with custom logo <br> TRON Pro Travel


Chris Jarvis and his crew are dedicated to  giving schools, leagues, teams and hockey organizations great service and high quality product at half the price of everyone else.
We have a tremendous selection and huge inventory of product that comes to us straight from our factories.
No middle man is needed to add 50% in margin!    

Customized DJ100 Senior Hockey Jersey Customized DJ200 Senior Hockey Jersey
Customized Senior Hockey Jersey DJ300 Personalized hockey jersey DJ PRO Authentic


Compare our hockey jerseys, hockey equipment bags, gloves, etc to any major manufacturer.  We believe ours are better!!

Wednesday, October 17, 2012

TRON At The Let's Play Hockey Show

It's been very exciting for us this week...

The Let's Play Hockey Show provided us a golden opportunity to truly highlight just how far along we have come since our start not too long ago.  Having this opportunity to interact with customers and retailers alike and communicate our vision to them directly is truly special.  The relationships formed at events like this can easily prove very beneficial to all parties involved, and we are always looking to improve in any way we can.

Customized DJ100 Senior Hockey Jersey Customized DJ200 Senior Hockey Jersey

As we expected, our jerseys and our sticks are the biggest draws to the HockeyTron booth.  Nearly every person that has come to check out our booth has been drawn to our newest jerseys, the DJ300 and the DJPro.  


Customized Senior Hockey Jersey DJ300 Personalized hockey jersey DJ PRO Authentic

It was nice to be able to show samples of these highly anticipated jerseys, as well as our tried and tested DJ100 and DJ200 models:  With 4 model levels and plenty of options between styles and fits, we are making it very easy to fall in love with a TRON hockey jersey.

Tron Heat PV Senior Composite Hockey Stick
$149.99
TRON 405XS Grip Senior Composite Hockey Stick
$139.99
Tron 405XS Clear Senior Composite Stick
$129.99

Even other dealers and retailers are taking notice.  They have simply been mesmerized by the amount of quality that goes into each piece of hockey equipment we make, not to mention the incredible price at which we sell to other businesses.  Many people have called in or approached us with questions regarding opening up wholesale accounts, which are all done through our head Sales Representative, Don Thomson.  


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We have definitely extended our reach within the US.  This year alone, many new stores have opened up accounts with us and are enjoying the benefits of buying direct from us.  Worldwide, we continue to increase our sphere of influence as well.  3 more countries have obtained the distribution rights from HockeyTron, making a total of 10 unique countries so far.


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The turnout at the festival has been fantastic.  In the past year, we made serious strides to stand side by side with the other top manufacturers in the industry at an event like this.  Our hockey sticks are so comparable to many of the top sticks out there. 



TRON S30S Smoke Senior Hockey Visor
$24.99
TRON S40 Aviator Senior Hockey Visor
$24.99
TRON S40S Aviator Smoke Senior Hockey Visor
$29.99

Our visors absolutely blow everyone out of the water, and our array of hockey jerseys will get you a customized look in no time at all.  And as always, we do this at a price the other guys just can't match up to when you compare similar model levels and designs.  This has always been and will continue to be the goal; providing pro-level gear to all players without needing to be a pro-level player in order to afford it. 

We are in our second year and we already have semi pro and pro players playing in our gear.  Wait until you see what we have up our sleeves for our third year of existence!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Hockey Clearance Section - Practically begging you to buy it!


Do you visit the clearance section of HockeyTron.com?  Because it changes so much and so often, you just about have to visit it once a day to stay caught up on the ridiculous prices of some of the great hockey gear available there.

TRON V10 Senior Ice Hockey Skates - 2011
$39.99
TRON V10 Junior Ice Hockey Skates - 2011
$34.99
TRON V10 Youth Ice Hockey Skates - 2011
$29.99


Take the TRON v10 Ice Hockey Skates.  For a pair of senior ice skates to only cost $39.99, you could outfit an entire family of 5 for $200!  The skate itself is very comfortable and is a great choice for people who are just beginning to skate, whether in an organized hockey league, or even just recreationally with friends at a local rink.  Rental skates at most places are sometimes not taken care of properly or get sharpened poorly.  At least with your own pair, you can manage these things for yourself better, and always have a skate that meets your needs.


TRON Senior Warm Up Pants - 2011
$5.99
TRON Senior Warm Up Jacket - 2011
$7.99
TRON Junior Warm Up Pants - 2011
$5.99

I've gotten e-mails regarding a typo on the clearance section, and I love telling people that while we appreciate the concern, we are very much aware of the fact that we have very nice quality Track Pants and Jackets for under $8!  Think ahead to when you’re actually going to want to a couple of these in the wintertime, and the smart shopper is coming up big in the next couple of months.  Got a team?  Buy whole sets and flare them out with embroidery, screening, customizing, etc, and get a deal that's absolutely second to none.

Like Warrior Hockey Sticks?  There are a lot of you out there that do, and we are blowing them out here at HockeyTron.  Many mid-high end sticks are available selling for anywhere between 20 to 50% off MSRP.  Limited curves and flexes are available in each stick, but with so many models and types to choose from, finding a stick to meet your specs will probably not be hard to accomplish.

Not too many people are familiar with the Torspo brand, but we've come to love them here.  We get much of our Torspo stock at fractions of even wholesale pricing, giving us the unique freedom to sell a glove as phenomenal as the Surge 221 for 39.99.  Featuring Nylon inserts in a leather exterior and a double re-enforced rubberized grip palm, these gloves are built to last and constructed with protection and stick feel in mind.  Even the other models from Torspo offer great features at prices that simply can’t be beat.

The clearance section is constantly updating, whether it’s adding new items or taking off items we have sold out already.  We had GRAF skates recently on closeout and within 2 days, nearly every pair we had was sold.  People still ask about the special, which is coming up on a week old, and we tell them that it was just that quick and that they are no longer in stock.  So anything there can be available one minute and completely gone the next, so staying on top of looking out for savings can be the difference between a once in a lifetime deal and paying full retail at the other guys.

Friday, September 7, 2012

TRON Equipment - Now Coming to a Sport Near You!


With many of our newest and most innovative products still on the horizon for HockeyTron, things are still very exciting for us here at HockeyTron.  We have countless accessories, bags, equipment, sticks and jerseys that are sure to add volumes of credibility to the TRON brand name.  To date, we have sold about 650,000 unique pieces of TRON products, and the number grows by the day.
Even though the pursuit to modify, re-create, and re-imagine the future designs and specifications of hockey equipment is one that will not cease anytime soon, we never seem to WANT to slow down: Theres always a new idea passed around from guys on the sales floor to the people in the offices on how we can strive towards continued greater success.  Our roller equipment seems to have hit the mark dead on have been selling like wildfire.  Our composite sticks, shields and jerseys are now world famous!  Key accessories such as visors and bags have also propelled the company upwards as well.  
That being said, a couple of other categories, such as our ice skates, proved themselves to be quite frustrating as the sales never quite came how we initially hoped for on those items.  But on a brighter note, our "mis-steps" have shown us what we can do or not do in the future to ensure that everything manufactured with a TRON emblem is up to the standards we expect from ourselves, and what you expect from us.  As the new kid on the block, we are sure to make a mistake or two, as they are inevitable, but your support and patience are truly appreciated, so thank you for that.

TRON DJ100 Dry Fit Senior Hockey Practice Jerseys
TRON DJ200 Team Senior Hockey Jerseys
TRON DJ300 Replica Hockey Jerseys


While hockey is a personal favorite as far as sports go, TRON Sports has the eventual goal of being a viable option to players of ALL sports:  With Figure Skates in development, we are now set to go after an entirely different market.  Soon we will have Paintball items as well!  For now, much of the paintball items will come from a distributor, but HockeyTron was much the same way when we started out so many months ago.  Over the next 2 years, we also intend to add lacrosse and even baseball products to our impressive list of equipment available at the cheapest prices by far, all of which will push the envelope of the highest technologies available to date.

Indeed, its a good time to be playing sports, because HockeyTron (And LacrosseTron, and BaseballTron, and PaintballTron) are all keeping your best interests and values in mind.  Stay tuned!

Thursday, August 30, 2012

What a possible NHL Lockout means to HockeyTron!


   After a great NHL season and playoffs that were exciting for all to watch, the summer almost seems like torture as Baseball is winding down and Football is staring up and the hype of hockey dwindles away. Hockey players everywhere are left to their own rec leagues or travel teams to get their fix.  One can only watch so many reruns of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs, and this is coming from an LA Kings/ Montreal Canadiens fan.
 
To make this inconvenience even less tolerable, we are starting to hear the word that NO fan of any professional organized sports wants to hear.  The idea of a lockout bringing hockey to a screeching halt is indeed serious business. It hurts everybody involved on every level from morale to pocketbooks.  Advertisers, merchandisers, manufacturers, the arenas that house them are all suspect to trickle down effects of some agreement not being reached.

Good thing we aren't THAT big yet, although we absolutely will be in due time, so HockeyTron is in a comfortable spot to keep working towards the things we are, one of which is always to give you the best prices on the kind of gear the pros will be hopefully wearing in the next couple months.  We currently have several semi pro teams using our sticks and shields and wearing our Pro jerseys.

While Bauer, Easton, Warrior, and countless other brands will scramble to find something to do for the players they sponsor, such money isn't going to waste here.  Sure, we would LOVE to see someone in the NHL sporting TRON anything, but we will not add an additional $60 to our sticks to get a Pro name on them.  Sponsorships never made sense to me in this sense.  Is that why a high end stick selling at $250 dollars With $60 in profits going to the manufacturer, $60 to the people who make it for the manufacturer, $60 to Iginla because you chose his name, and the last $70 just because they feel like they can?

Consider this though!  Just recently, one of the premier teams in Europe recently called up our offices.  He wants over 90 TRON 405XS in the various curves and flexes for his entire lineup.  Normally we sell this stick to you for $129.99, and maybe we cut you a break if you got 2 or even 3.  Exact figures aside, we still made good money on the sale, they happily bought the stick, we happily shipped them the stick, and they are now happily LOVING it more than any other stick they ever used. Ask the Waterloo Siskins what they think of the 150 Tron 405XS sticks they just bought!!

TRON 405XS Senior Composite Hockey Stick
$129.99
 

But everyone BUYS their stick.  That's the difference.  Think of how many sticks an elite NHL player like Alex Ovechkin uses.  He's not buying those things, the manufacturer is pouring them out like water out of a truck parked outside his house.  Who's paying for those sticks!  The sad, sad truth is EVERYONE who buys that stick for close to $250:  You, the customers/loyal fans.  Some thanks huh!

While the dream has only just begun for us, it is good for us, for the time being, to be a little low key and off the radar.  We are definitely loving the immediate and long term plans we have set out for ourselves.  And you can feel very re-assured that when we have those meetings discussing our future, our concerned and loyal customers are absolutely in attendance.

We wouldn't think of holding that meeting WITHOUT you.