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  2. Don_Quixote
    The warrior covert qre pro has excellent back/tailbone protection among pro stock pants. the lower back guard is the thickest of any pro stock pant ive seen, at least an inch thick and very sturdy. then the tailbone is a curved one-piece pastic insert with foam, kind of like the shells they use for the hip except shaped to protect the tailbone. the ccm hptk x or xp is also good. there is a nice thick segmented dense foam section for the tailbone. the only drawback is the section is quite narrow, so if your pants shifted during the fall you could miss it completely on impact. i will note that these pants are otherwise not super protective imo. relatively small hip shells, and not much padding except on the hip, front thighs and kidney/waist. i think the reason for their popularity among nhl players is their mobility--there is decent protection on high risk areas, but they are not overbuilt like the hp70 x (which, by comparison, has the largest hip shells of any pro stock pant, and hard shell protection on both the front and back of the thigh) no pant is really designed to protect the tailbone if you fall straight downward though, like hitting the ice in an upright seated position. the padded shorts like tortoise pads would help somewhat with that type of fall, because the tailbone protection wraps around the glute rather than hanging behind. ideally, if you're falling backward, try to hit the ice with your whole back (but not your head). if youre really serious about injury prevention, learning a bit of judo would go a long way. obviously you cant control how you fall every time on the ice, but those judo guys are really good at controlling their falls so that they distribute their weight on impact.
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  4. marka
    Howdy, I really need to show my wife that sticks picture. Mark
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  6. IPv6Freely
    That is an insane number of sticks.
  7. Buzz_LightBeer
    Pickups from some recent travels. Franklin Vipers pants Easton Pro pants navy 6K Pro M/L shoulders and a full family photo
  8. Larry54
    If you're happy with the blade manufacturer's stock profile, then I'd get a shim. If you're going to get the blade profiled anyways, you might as well just have the pitch added to the profile.
  9. Yardelm
    This would make sense actually. I remember watching or reading somewhere about the thousands of curve moulds Warrior has. I imagine every manufacturer has a few hundred p28 variants alone. I’d assume the use the most common variant maybe… Anyone from manufacturers in here that could jump into this convo? Would be fascinating to get inside info
  10. VegasHockey
    Either works. If you have someone skilled with profiling, I would pitch the blade, but the easier method is a shim.
  11. VegasHockey started following Thinnest socks?
  12. VegasHockey
    Agreed. Great sock for the price point.
  13. shoot_the_goalie
    I second FoxRiver. They're great and pretty durable for how thin they are.
  14. IPv6Freely
    Nothing beats Darn Tough's warranty!
  15. Sniper9
    P28 was never associated to Hall. As far as I can recall hall was p92 (at the time E3)
  16. Sniper9 started following P28 Use Among NHL Defencemen
  17. Sniper9
    Bauer, ccm, true, warrior, sher wood all have very subtle differences in their iteration of the p28. So you might be on to something with ones being based off certain pro curves.
  18. 218hockey
    The new McDavid curve? Wasn't the P28 the Hall curve?
  19. BenBreeg
    If you want the thinnest socks, don’t spend a lot. Champro that you can get at Epic Sports are like $3-4/pair. We have a ton. They are as thin as you can get, basically slightly thicker than panty hose and comparable to liner socks that have been mentioned. https://m.epicsports.com/baseball/p/125179/index.html I went through all kinds trying to find what I wanted.
  20. mojo122
    It's not that they messed up the oven temperature but the fact that they messed up the baking process. I see it all too often.
  21. Westside
    I’ve been a huge fan of Darn Tough ultralight runners socks. I think that’s the line. Thin, no padding, mid-calf height, and they’re made from wool so they resist odors. Then there’s DT’s lifetime guarantee. Worth every penny
  22. acura9927
    I think that's what happened. When I went in to bake them the 2nd time it was the same guy that always cut my skates 1/2 too sharp EVERY time. I mean how can they screw up oven temp? Its one setting per CCM skate. But I guess they did.
  23. krisdrum
    Liner socks all the way! Going to be the thinnest you can find, since they are designed to go on under another pair of socks. I just picked up a few pair of the Elite liners that are ribbed. They aren't quite as thin as the older version of the liner, but not bad.
  24. Larry54
    Liner socks. I wear THESE.
  25. stick9
    Have you looked at the Warroad game day sock? I just got a pair and I really like them. Feels almost like a dress sock.
  26. stick9
    If heated correctly you should never see any sort of blemish. My guess, the temp was too high. Not sure anyone here makes any sort of money from playing. It's a hobby for most of us. Skates get abused during play. After a few games you won't even notice those blemishes.
  27. start_today
    That’s like “I’m never gonna change the air filter my car because once I took it to jiffy lube and there was a small mark on the bumper when I got it back. Better to just get poor gas mileage and breathe dirty air than risk a blemish on my car.” You’re spending 100s of dollars on skates, worried enough about the fit that you are posting here, but then not even taking the steps to properly fit them all the way. Go get them baked, you will be happier with fit and performance.
  28. acura9927
    The real reason I don't want to bake new skates anymore is when I baked my Ribcore Titanium skate the 2nd time there were 3 to 4 pin sized dots that formed on both sides of the skate after the 2nd bake. I don't think for me since I don't make money from playing hockey its worth any unnecessary blemish on my skates.
  29. flip12
    All skates for the last few decades have been made with thermoformable materials. You can see it happen in the how-it’s-made factory videos even with traditional skates like Graf and Bauer Classic Supremes. Whether they’re reformable under conditions available to the consumer is the question.
  30. nchan2000
    Would it be better to pitch the skate blade rather than insert a shim?
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