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Skates for Wide Feet (2026–27): Hockey, Figure and Roller

Four flagship hockey skates stop their wide fit at size 10.5. We checked 17 brands for wide hockey, figure and roller skates. A podiatrist on which to buy.

Written and medically reviewed by Dr. Tom Biernacki, DPM, FACFAS · Last reviewed 16 October 2026

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If you play hockey on wide feet and take bigger than a men’s 12 in shoes, the wide skate you want may not be made in your size. I went through the sites of 17 skate brands this week. Bauer, CCM and TRUE all sell hockey skates in a wide, but four flagships, Bauer’s Supreme Fuse and Vapor FlyLite and CCM’s Vizion and Tacks XR, stop the wide fit at skate size 10.5, which CCM’s own chart puts at a men’s 12 shoe. Four of CCM’s JetSpeed skates carry their Wide to 12.5. Figure skaters can get real widths from Jackson Ultima, Riedell and Edea; most roller skates come in one width. Here is who sells what, in which sizes, and how to fit it.

The short answer

• Up to about a men’s 12 shoe: you have plenty of choice. Bauer and CCM sell almost every senior hockey skate above $200 in a wide (CCM’s women’s JetSpeed FTW is one exception), and TRUE sells its Catalyst 9X4 in one.
• Bigger than that, check the size before you fall for a skate. Bauer’s FIT 3 stops at size 10.5 on the Supreme Fuse, Vapor FlyLite, Vapor FlyPro, Supreme Shadow and Supreme F40. CCM’s Wide stops at 10.5 on the Vizion and all four Tacks XR skates.
• Big and wide: CCM’s JetSpeed FT8 Pro, FT8, FT870 and FT860 come in Wide to size 12.5. Bauer’s Supreme F50 Pro, Vapor Fly40, Supreme M50 Pro and Supreme M40 come in FIT 3 to 12, and TRUE’s Catalyst 9X4 in W to 11.5.
• On a budget: the CCM JetSpeed FT670 in Wide ($207.99, to size 11.5), the Bauer Supreme M30 in EE ($239.99, to 12) or the CCM JetSpeed FT860 in Wide ($249.99, to 12.5).
• Kids: neither Bauer nor CCM sells a youth-size skate in a wide. In junior sizes, Bauer sells seven skates in EE; CCM sells one, the JetSpeed FT870.
• Figure skates: Jackson Ultima lists a Wide on 16 boots, Riedell sells narrow, medium and wide, and Edea makes four widths, B to E. Risport goes no wider than C.
• Roller skates: Riedell’s high-top roller boots come in wide (EE in men’s sizes), and Bont makes its Hybrid derby boot in wide, and in carbon in double-wide. Riedell’s Dart and every Moxi, Impala and Sure-Grip skate we read come in one width.
• Do not size up to get width. A skate that is too long lets your heel lift, and a lifting heel blisters and costs you your edges. Buy the wide in your own size.

Which hockey skates come in wide?

The three hockey brands label their wides three ways. Bauer sorts its better skates into FIT 1 (narrow), FIT 2 (medium) and FIT 3 (wide), and its cheaper ones into D (standard) and EE (wide). CCM sells its top skates in Tapered, Regular and Wide and most of the rest in Regular and Wide, and asks you to pick the drawing that looks most like your foot. TRUE adds a W to the size: an Adult 9W is a wide 9. None of the three puts a number on how much wider its wide is.

Bauer

Source: bauer.com (US), read 16 October 2026. Senior sizes. Prices are as listed that day, and some were on sale. Bauer also sells intermediate, junior and youth versions; see the kids’ section below.

CCM

Source: us.ccmhockey.com, read 16 October 2026. A size counts if CCM’s US site offers that width in that size, in stock or not. Senior sizes; prices as listed that day. CCM’s previous Tacks XF Pro, XF and XF90 were still listed, mostly sold out, in Wide to size 12 or 11.5.

TRUE, and custom skates

The one senior skate we found in stock on TRUE’s US site, the Catalyst 9X4 ($1,079.99), comes in Regular and W in every size from 7 to 11.5. Its intermediate version comes in W only in sizes 6 and 6.5. TRUE’s other answer for a hard-to-fit foot is its SVH Custom ($1,399.99), which it builds from a 3D foot scan taken with its sizing app, in six to seven weeks. Bauer sells custom versions of the Supreme Fuse and Vapor FlyLite through MyBauer, also at $1,399.99.

Why the size 10.5 cut-off matters

Hockey skates are sized smaller than shoes. CCM’s chart puts a senior skate one and a half sizes below your men’s shoe size, so a size 10.5 skate is a men’s 12 shoe and a size 12 skate is a 13.5. A wide-footed player in a men’s 12.5 or bigger therefore cannot buy the Supreme Fuse, Vapor FlyLite, Vapor FlyPro, Supreme Shadow, Supreme F40, Vizion or any Tacks XR in its wide. Neither brand says why the wide stops there. If a shop tells you to go up a size in the regular width instead, it is solving your width problem by creating a length problem.

None of these brands publishes the inside width of a skate in millimetres, and we know of no independent lab that measures skate interiors the way RunRepeat measures running shoes. So nobody can tell you on paper whether a Bauer FIT 3 is roomier than a CCM Wide; you have to try both on. That is a measurement someone should fund, because it would spare a lot of wide feet a lot of blisters.

Which wide hockey skate to buy

• A wide forefoot in a big size: start with CCM’s JetSpeed line. The FT8 Pro ($1,229.99), FT8 ($949.99), FT870 ($349.99) and FT860 ($249.99) all come in Wide to size 12.5, the biggest size of any wide ice hockey player skate we found. Bauer’s Supreme F50 Pro ($779.99) and Vapor Fly40 ($579.99) go to 12 in FIT 3.
• Your first pair, or a tight budget: the CCM JetSpeed FT670 in Wide ($207.99, to 11.5), the Bauer Supreme M30 in EE ($239.99, to 12) or the CCM JetSpeed FT860 in Wide ($249.99, to 12.5). A beginner does not need a $1,000 boot, and a wide skate at this price will feel better than a narrow flagship.
• Wide forefoot, narrow heel: the hardest foot to fit, because many makers widen the heel along with the forefoot. Try the wide and check your heel first, using the fitting steps below. If the heel lifts, ask the shop about punching the forefoot of a regular-width skate instead.
• Two different feet, or nothing fits: go custom. MyBauer and TRUE’s SVH Custom both cost $1,399.99, and TRUE builds from a 3D scan of your foot.
• Goalies: Bauer’s Pro and Elite goal skates come in FIT 3 (to sizes 13 and 12.5) and its GSX in EE (to 12.5).

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Kids’ and women’s hockey skates for wide feet

This is where wide feet get the least help. Bauer and CCM sell every youth skate (sizes up to youth 13.5) in one width only. In junior sizes (1 to 3.5), Bauer sells seven skates in D and EE: the Supreme Fuse, Vapor FlyLite, Supreme M50 Pro, Vapor Fly40, Vapor Fly30, Supreme F30 and Supreme M40. CCM sells one junior skate in Wide, the JetSpeed FT870. By intermediate sizes (4 to 6.5) the choice opens up again: Bauer sells nine intermediate skates in FIT 3 and five more in EE, and CCM’s Vizion comes in Wide.

For a child with wide feet in youth sizes, buy for width before length, have the shop bake the skates, and resist buying a size up to grow into. A skate a size too long blisters a child’s heel just as it does an adult’s, and a child whose feet hurt stops wanting to skate.

Women’s-specific hockey skates are scarce: CCM’s JetSpeed FTW comes in Regular only, and Bauer lists no women’s player skate. Most women skate in an intermediate or senior skate, so every FIT 3, EE and Wide above is open to them.

Recreational ice skates for wide feet

If you skate a few times a winter, the skates sold for that come in one width. Bauer’s X-LP and X-LS come in one fit, Jackson Ultima’s Softec skates and its Finesse 452 come in M only, and Lake Placid’s Everest skate is sold with the advice that wider feet should size up. Do not. For a wide foot, skip the recreational aisle: a hockey skate in EE or Wide, such as the Bauer Supreme M30 or the CCM JetSpeed FT670, costs more and fits.

Figure skates for wide feet

Figure skating has better widths than hockey, but you buy them through a fitter, and the letters mean different things at each brand.

Source: jacksonultima.com, ice.riedellskates.com, edeaskates.com and Edea’s 2026 ice catalogue, and risport.com, read 16 October 2026. Width letters are each brand’s own and do not match from brand to brand.

Edea makes the point every figure skater with a wide forefoot should hear: its larger widths also have larger heel pockets. A figure skate lives or dies by the heel, because a heel that lifts on take-off lands badly. If the width that suits your forefoot lets your heel move, try the next width down with the boot stretched at the bunion or little-toe joint before you try anything longer.

Roller and inline skates for wide feet

Roller skates are mostly made in one width, and the brands that do talk about fit often do it in words rather than letters.

Source: each brand’s own website, and Riedell’s sizing guide for its high-top roller boots, read 16 October 2026.

For a wide foot on wheels, the short list is a Riedell high-top in wide, a Bont Hybrid in wide, or, for roller hockey, an Alkali Fire in E. If you want a one-width rink or outdoor skate, start with the models whose makers say they are cut wider, and try them on before you trust the description.

How to fit a skate on a wide foot

• Measure late in the day, both feet. K2 tells skaters to measure in the evening, when feet are largest, and to size for the longer and wider foot. Riedell has you stand to measure length and sit to measure width across the ball of the foot.
• Length first. Laced up and standing straight, your toes should just touch the front of the skate, and come off it when you bend your knees into a skating stance. More room than that is a skate that is too long.
• Then the heel. Bend your knees and try to lift your heel: it should not rise inside the boot. Edea calls the heel pocket the key to a skate’s fit. A heel that lifts will blister, however good the forefoot feels.
• Then the width. Riedell’s rule works for any skate: laced snugly, if the two rows of eyelets nearly meet, the skate is too wide or too long; if they gape, it is too narrow or too short.
• Bake it. Most performance hockey and figure skates are made to be heat-moulded in a shop oven; Riedell heats its figure boots at 165°F (75°C) for four to seven minutes. Baking takes the edge off pressure points. It does not turn a narrow skate into a wide one.
• Punch for one spot, go wider for the whole forefoot. A shop can stretch a skate at a single bump: a bunion, a tailor’s bunion or the bone on the inside of the arch. If the whole forefoot is squeezed, buy the wide.
• Bring your insoles. A thick orthotic takes up the room a wide foot needs. Try the skate with whatever you will skate in.

Skate pain that tells you the fit is wrong

When a skater tells me their forefoot burns or goes numb ten minutes into a session, the skate is almost always squeezing the ball of the foot, and the nerves that run between the long bones there are taking the pressure. Loosen the bottom three eyelets first. If the burning stops, the skate is too narrow for you and a wide is the fix. If the numbness stays after the skate comes off, or you get it in ordinary shoes too, have it examined; that pattern can be a Morton’s neuroma.

Pressure on the inside of the ball of the foot is usually a bunion meeting the boot, and on the outside a tailor’s bunion. Both are punching jobs if the rest of the skate fits. See shoes for bunions and shoes for a tailor’s bunion for everyday shoes that leave those joints alone.

Two common skate pains are not width problems at all. Lace bite, a sharp pain across the front of the ankle, comes from the tongue and laces pressing on the tendons there; a gel lace-bite pad and a little less tension in the top eyelets usually settle it. The bump at the back of the heel that hockey players call a Bauer bump is a bony prominence with an inflamed bursa over it, rubbed by a heel that moves in the boot. Stopping the heel moving, with a skate that is not too long and laces snug at the ankle, does more than any pad.

Questions people ask

Do Bauer skates come in wide?

Yes. Bauer’s wide is FIT 3 on its skates from the Supreme M40 and Vapor Fly40 up, and EE on the Vapor Fly30 and the Supreme F30, M30 and F20. On the Supreme Fuse, Vapor FlyLite, Vapor FlyPro, Supreme Shadow and Supreme F40, FIT 3 stops at size 10.5.

Do CCM skates come in wide?

Yes: every senior player skate on CCM’s US site comes in Wide except the women’s JetSpeed FTW and the entry-level Next. The Vizion and the four Tacks XR skates stop the Wide at size 10.5; the JetSpeed FT8 Pro, FT8, FT870 and FT860 carry it to 12.5.

What is the best hockey skate for wide feet?

The one in your length and width that holds your heel. For most adults with a wide forefoot, that is a FIT 3, EE or Wide skate in their true size. If you wear bigger than a men’s 12 shoe, start with CCM’s JetSpeed line, which carries its Wide to size 12.5.

What does EE mean on a hockey skate?

Wide. Bauer uses D for standard and EE for wide on its lower-priced skates, and FIT 1, 2 and 3 on the rest.

Should I size up in skates if I have wide feet?

No. A skate a size too long lets your heel lift and your foot slide, which blisters and costs you control, and it often still presses across the ball of the foot. Buy the wide in your size, and have a shop punch any single spot that still presses.

Can a hockey skate be stretched wider?

A little, at one spot. A pro shop can bake the boot and punch out room for a bunion, a tailor’s bunion or the bone on the inside of the arch. It cannot turn a regular-width skate into a wide.

Are there wide figure skates?

Yes. Jackson Ultima, Riedell and Edea all sell widths, Edea from B to E. Risport goes no wider than C, and beginner and recreational figure skates usually come in one width.

Are there wide roller skates?

A few. Riedell’s high-top roller boots come in wide, EE in men’s sizes, and Bont’s Hybrid derby boot comes in wide and, in carbon, double-wide. For roller hockey, Alkali’s Fire skates come in an E width.

Related guides & shoe pages

• Ski boots for wide feet · Snowboard boots for wide feet
• Best shoes for wide feet — the parent guide
• Skate shoes for wide feet — skateboarding shoes, not skates
• Shoe width chart · Shoes for bunions

Sources: the skate pages and product listings of bauer.com (including Mission), us.ccmhockey.com and its size chart, true-sports.com, alkalihockey.com, jacksonultima.com, ice.riedellskates.com and roller.riedellskates.com (with Riedell’s high-top roller sizing guide), edeaskates.com and Edea’s 2026 ice catalogue, risport.com, bont.com, moxiskates.com, impalarollerskates.com, suregrip.com, powerslide.com (Powerslide and Chaya), tourhockey.com (Lake Placid) and k2skates.com, all read 16 October 2026. Widths, sizes, prices and ranges change; the brand’s own page is the authority on the day you buy.

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