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Is stuff like this common in youth hockey? Helmet vent color seems so far out of the realm of importance and sends the wrong message to literally everyone involved.

If you bought custom skates that were made for somebody else, I wouldn’t expect them to feel all that great.

Tell the coach to suck it?

Hey, if it works thats all I care about. lol

Who's to say there is an ideal stiffness? Sure there are some basic guidelines as to who should be in what. Mostly it's what the player prefers.

As @clarkiestooth says, the stiffness of the boot has a lot to do with whether a player will feel undersupported (I think this is what people mean by sloppy when they’re talking about stiffness), adequately supported or restricted (oversupported). Different strokes for different players, though, literally. The stride length, as a function of the player’s natural body frame, of say Grabner versus Toews will have a large influence on where these over and undersupported lines get individually drawn. In my personal experience, a significantly overlooked component in this equation is tongue stiffness. If there’s room to go down in tongue stiffness, a stiffer boot can still allow for adequate forward flex.

Pretty unimpressed with Pro Hockey Life and True at this point. I ordered my skates one day before @no21kyle. His are already on the way to him, but I can't even get confirmation that my order has been processed. PHL tells me that the orders go through their HO, and that they've been instructed not to enter customer emails into the True order system. That's pretty stupid as it denies their customer the opportunity to get the full experience. True won't even answer an email submitted through their "contact us" email address, (4 days without an answer even though they say one business day). I knew the skates could take several weeks and that's not my issue. I just want to be informed of my order status. @oldtrainerguy28 I guess I should have made the 45 minute drive to have you fit me.

What a nightmare! I'm so sorry this is all happening. I hope you get some kind of good news soon, even if it's just "you won't have a roommate this time".

Having surgery to repair a very badly herniated disc (this is going on 2 years of sciatic/leg pain, worsening in spite of everything), which was not an easy decision to make anyway (it needs repair, but anxiety). Got a surgery date at Local Hospital, got a call a couple hours later saying Local Hospital flagged it because they're not in-network for my insurance. So, now likely having it at Specialty Hospital, but I'm not sure when, and have to wait til Monday for more news so I can arrange everything with my workplaces and the rest of my life. 😤 Healthcare is stressful. The surgeon's office and the Specialty Hospital have been great, at least.

A significant number of Mako lovers loved them in spite of that aggressive pitch. A lot of people swapped holders to tone it down a bit. Some of that pitch is in the boot, some in the holder and some the steel. You can still replicate that angle even in something as different as a Nexus skate. Shims will change your angle without affecting the steel. Buy the skate for how it fits your foot dynamically. Adjust for ice contact properties afterwards as these are primarily issues of the steel and holder (though in concert with the boot) and can be tuned as needed regardless of which boot suits you.

This is quickly devolving into a SMUesque rant so I'll just say one final time, when I realized I was not receiving updates that I should be, my first action was to contact the store. My second action was to go into the store again. Next was trying the HO of PHL, as they apparently submit the orders. Fourth action was to contact True to ensure I knew exactly what I had to push PHL to do. Both PHL and True are failing on the customer service here. While it may not be evident by my posts, I've been very laid back in my communication with both parties. Not pushing and being pleasant. At the end of the day, I forked over $1,100 dollars and have no indication that anything has been done to date. Hopefully everything will go smoothly and I'll finally have a skate that doesn't hurt. On the other hand, if I get a call in a week saying there was an issue and I need to be scanned again, I will be pretty pissed off.