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  1. Today
  2. Davideo
    If we go further than 10 years, my blue and yellow Easton aluminum from the mid-90's. The thing was like playing with rebar, but it was very cool.
  3. Radien55
    Is it possible to customize the blade or pick a build with a softer blade? If it would feel like a 2N Pro in the blade as well, it would be pretty sweet. I take it you are a P90TM user. I played with it a lot but I prefer the P92, mostly due to the lie, the blade is quite alright. The Ben Pro is just a P92 with a toe kink, I think I would like this one, curious to try it or the Zegra P86. I had never heard of a Big Benn, but I googled and it looks pretty close to the retail P90TM. It's odd that he doesn't offer it on the regular builds, it's quite a common curve.
  4. stick9
    I did the Readline build (recommended) and selected mid kick. It would have been a dream had it had a softer blade. You know it ain't working when guys on your own team are chirping about it. I tried the VF. Here's my honest take. It's a nice stick, even better if you buy enough to get free shipping. It does however lack that magic that makes the Jetspeed the Jetspeed. Your opinion my differ. I have a buddy who's also a Jetspeed user and he loves his VF. The big turn off for me was the pattern. Their Benn Pro plays like a P92. They offer something closer to the P90TM (BigBenn) but only on customs. As a devoted Jetspeed user, I desperately wanted to like it. I'd give it another try if they start offering the BigBen pattern.
  5. stick9
    Haha, yes that is a typo. Nice catch. I went back and read thru it and didnt catch it the second time around. Correction, I meant to say the VS (gold stripe) is very supreme like. Whoops
  6. Yesterday
  7. flip12
    I remember when the original Synergy came out. My impression was the durability was spotty. Mine was very durable, as were most of my teammates', but one of our defenseman snapped his in half on his first shot at his first practice with it; got it warrantied, but I never saw him use one ever again. This was just high school level, not as high as it sounds like you were at, so our use was very likely much less damaging and demanding, but there were lots of Synergys in those years and they usually held up for a good portion of a season if one wasn't unlucky.
  8. flip12
    It just reads like you have two different sticks in mind, but you call them both VF.
  9. Radien55
    Definitely. They need to motivate the price increases with something, lower weight, different materials/manufacturing process, ultra low/supermid kickpoint, etc. The result is a higher price and a less durable product. Extra added bonus is that the end user will need to replace them more often too, doubly whammy for the bottom line. Which custom build did you do, G63XL? Sounds great except the pingy blade. I was thinking of ordering a couple of VF P92 sticks, hoping they would be somewhat similar to the Jetspeed line. What did you not like about them?
  10. Radien55
    Oh I remember. As a kid I had a Titan, (fiberglass?) and the blade snapped pretty quickly, they were breaking all the time. This was relatively new tech at the time though and they didn't cost $400. The sticks of the last 10 years have been much better indeed, but when you see weights of 340g, price of $400 and it breaks after a couple of one-timers, we're heading in the wrong direction.
  11. IPv6Freely
    That's not even remotely close to enough protection.
  12. shooter27
    You clearly either weren’t around or don’t remember when the Synergy first came out. Those things broke all the time. Especially compared to 2-piece or wood sticks. There were coaches in junior and the NCAA that discouraged their players from using those sticks because of how often they broke. Then when the first Stealth came out late in the 2003-04 season, it was even worse. Basically all anyone talked about during the 2004 playoffs was how often the sticks were breaking. They were extremely brittle. I remember getting one from a rep to test and feeling like it was going to shatter into pieces if I flexed it too hard. Not that today’s sticks have incredible durability, but compared to the sticks from that era, they may as well be made of titanium.
  13. Last week
  14. nisselrm
    For me the 1x lite, adv and qrl were the best sticks I’ve used. Not surprised they have similar tapers.
  15. tvuollo
    For me the first really good sticks I bought were the Bauer Vapor 1X, the Nexus 1N and the original Warrior Covert QRL. Really liked them all. Everything right now is pretty bland, just iterations of those original ones.
  16. WBGMike
    I am going to the knee sleeves with the gel knee pads
  17. WBGMike
    need to come to Orlando with it.
  18. stick9
    I don't think so... I'm not hating on PRO. For all the no names and lesser brand out there they are without question the best. I suppose that's true, it's not really one or the other.
  19. flip12
    Is there a typo here? Also, why the false dichotomy: price and patterns or good product? Price, patterns, and product can all go in one.
  20. stick9
    Let me throw something at you... Do you think it's the quest for reduced weight that's causing the durability issues or is it maybe manufacturers looking to increase profits? I think it's the latter and the weight reduction is their way of selling it to you. Circling back to PRO. I wonder, those who love them...do they love them because of the price and or the patterns or is it because it's a really good product? I have PRO custom and a VF. The custom is essentially a 2N but with a mega stiff blade which I hate. The VF is very older Supreme like but the pattern just doesn't work. I also tried their VF which I did not care for. *Edit* I meant to say the VS (gold stripe) is very supreme like. Whoops
  21. Radien55
    Those are actually two of my favorite sticks as well. The FT2 was nice, FT3 Pro was amazing but fragile. FT5 Pro was the culmination of the Jetspeed lineup. Great feeling and shooting stick like you said, better than the FT2 and more durable than the FT3 Pro. I stocked up on FT5 Pros, so I have not tried the later models. Can you still custom order these from CCM? Is the min order 6 or more? Nexus 2N Pro, Great shooting stick, kickpoint is perfect. very durable and still no cracks on mine. I would love to get more. After, they went to the 5-sided shaft on the Geo and Sync, not a fan. Many NHL players still use the 2NPROXL dressed as a Geo/Sync/Tracer. I would too if I could. Bauer should just make the 2N Pro again. I have every Trigger from 1 to 7, (I avoided the latter ones due to the helicoid blades). The Trigger 6 and 7 Pro standout as the best of the lineup, very nice feeling and shooting sticks. My 7 Pro has developed a crack near the bottom of the shaft though, but it has seen years of use by now. This one goes in the top 3 as well. I used the Tacks AS 3,4,V Pro. ASV Pro shot really well, favorite in the lineup but I never really gelled with these sticks. Feel was quite different from the above mentioned sticks. That's the Top 3 for me: FT5 Pro, Trigger 7 Pro, 2N Pro. Not Necessarily in that order though.
  22. Radien55
    I have tried some older Vapor sticks, but I can't say for sure if it was the 1X lite. However looking at the specs, it's 397g. That's the sweet spot of light enough and still durable. You don't need more and I rather have that, than a new $400 stick that shoots great for 10 shots then dies. Sticks have fallen off a cliff in the chase of being light, I've never seen sticks break so often as they do now. There are 1-3 sticks breaking almost every NHL game I watch, which is pretty crazy because it is a new stick for basically every or every few games, it's not high mileage sticks that have been worn down.
  23. flip12
    Opinions vary yes, but I never said Pro's lineup was that good, just that it was evidence that there's not some steep climb from their sticks, which are more like top sticks of yore (circa 2015 say), to the top sticks of today. If their sticks were clearly inferior, it wouldn't be all that tempting to buy them, no matter the price. If a product is no fun to use, the price feels like a rip off, even if it's not much in raw currency. Pro's sticks might not have that extra oomf of whatever Bauer, et. al. are selling for $400, but the oomf doesn't really justify the $200-$300 price difference, especially when you have more individuality baked into Pro's offerings. That's the evidence I had in mind. To be fair, I will also say I'm fairly biased towards Pro at the moment as well. I still have my misgivings about Geppetty, but the sticks play nice and hold up better than others; True I'm looking at you. I'm a sucker for just about any PM9-based curve, which are becoming harder and harder to find, but he offers several that all work better for me than my preferred retail curve, P28: Kovalchuk Thrashers (my favorite at the moment), Kovalchuk New, Malkin, P46, and PM9 itself. I'd much rather buy a marginally less than stick with an a lot less than price tag with a curve that much better suits me than some really expensive cookie cutter (read profit maximizing) piece mass produced and mass marketed by the overlords.
  24. stick9
    Meh, I'm not sure I agree. PROs lineup is their thing not necessarily a snapshot of the greatest playing or selling sticks. I think they did a really good job at creating a line up to suite a wide variety of users. JMO though. The best stick I've laid hands is the Jetspeed FT5 Pro. Great feeling and shooting stick with excellent durability and it looks fantastic. I like em so much Ive considered order some customs. Runner up goes to the Nexus 2N. Not as good as a shooter as the FT5 Pro but it holds its own. Really nice feel and pretty durable too.
  25. stick9
    Definitely NOT just cosmetic. It's a completely new skate. Even the composite used to make the boot is new. Fit has been tweaked as well, which has already been discussed. I haven't tried the latest Netspeed but the XF Pro is by far the best skate CCM has produced.
  26. flip12
    I'm with @xstartxtodayx. Most of the latest and greatest is just rearranging the deck chairs. Great for marketing, but the ship is still the same. The viability of Pro's lineup is strong evidence if not proof of this. If the technology were clearly superior between 2005, 2015, and 2025 sticks, Pro's OG lineup would show it. The big inflection point remains packaging the T-Flex + composite blade as a unit in the Synergy. Since then, any changes have been more subtle than substantial. To answer the main question, though I haven't tried a ton of different lines, the one stick did just work for me off the shelf a bit better than anything else I've had was RibCor2. It just had a combination of soft blade feel when puck handling with good pop on shots and, most importantly, perfect balance.
  27. Sniper9 started following Newer Pant Models with Wider Legs
  28. Sniper9
    The thigh flap of shins getting stuck is sometimes because your hockey socks aren't snug enough. If there's too much slack on the thigh region it won't keep the flap against your thigh and it can get caught up under the bottom of your pants. Of course this won't happen with all pants and shin guard combinations but your case it did. If pants and shins are the right size then in most cases having the hockey socks tighter will help this from happening. The xf pro shin's thigh flap is adjustable so you can mess with the height of it, or remove it completely. It's not unheard of that this flap is removed by people and pros because the design of the flap for some shin guards is just bad. You can try opening up the zipper on the pant legs but from experience, this rarely helps, especially if the issue is loose hockey socks. If loose hockey socks isn't the issue, then it could be just a case of a bad combination of shun guard and pants. Pants these days are trending towards a more snugger fit. I personally like it. It's like a mix of a girdle and pant. Even with pros, you can see a lot of players are wearing snugger and shorter pants where the bottom of the pant barely covers any part of the kneecap or their shin guards. Bedard and mcdavid are good examples but there are much more. Oh and fyi, CCM pants fit quite a bit smaller than bauer pants. I'm swimming in a Bauer medium and need to wear a Sr small or modern intermediate large, but fit into a CCM medium fine with it actually feeling pretty snug. So if youre user to wearing a Bauer medium, that could be your issue in that you should be wearing a CCM large in terms of waist size.
  29. xstartxtodayx started following Your favorite sticks from the last ten years?
  30. xstartxtodayx
    Past 10 years all seem the same to me stickwise, not much has changed other than hype, maybe 25+ years ago into the 2 piece generation I'd say the Z-Bubble for sure, the classic green one was my go-to. Before that in the wood generation of the mid 90's I'd have to say the Victoriaville 4050 since it was one of the first sticks I could flex since it was one of the more whippy sticks.
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