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Wine...... we haven't met yet. If we had you'd understand.

Just find another area of focus where you can spend money that you really don't need to spend! Like fine whisky/bourbon! Or cars!

New soakers ALWAYS make you happy! 😁

I feel like we're at a point where hockey (and other sports) tech has plateaued (except for maybe the mass availability/marketing of custom skates). IMHO, the new iterations of gear are mostly minor advancements with a lot of new jargon/graphics. Hard to get excited about, when underneath the veneer, you're basically getting the same thing from last year. Not to mention, sometimes minor advancements make me feel like the gear has taken a step back in improvement. (I'll use my typical example...I loved the CCM Ultra Tacks stick, and just wished CCM kept it at that, instead of changing the flex point, characteristics, etc - though I completely understand why they do it in terms of a business model) I still enjoy perusing gear, but I don't really get excited about buying anymore it in the current offerings, cause I'm happy with what I currently have, and nothing additionally out there on the market is going to make a vast improvement to my play. With that said, if they made a huge advancement in tech, that would definitely peak my interests again in purchasing new stuff. I played a bunch when I was younger, and after a 20 year hiatus, started playing again. I remember how awestruck and excited I was when purchasing new gear, cause it was so vastly differently than my old stuff. I mean, before I bought all my current gear, I was still skating in Micron Megas, using an Easton aluminum, and wearing pads that used plastic plates (weighted a ton and absorbed sweat like a sponge).

Hearing Winnipeg being referred to as “East” made me chuckle 😝 Can you post the name of the LHS so others here can avoid them? 🙂