A New Hockey Strategy?

I know that hockey is a stinky game. The shin pads, shoulder pads, and hockey gloves can absolutely reek by the time that the season is a quarter the way over. When my younger son used to play hockey, we would have him take everything out of his hockey bag the minute he came home so we could air it out, and even still it was B-A-D! Finally we just told him to keep his bag in his room, and not anywhere else in the house!