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All Winterfest Pickups Bauer Vapor Apx Pr gloves thanks to JR Warrior Bag thanks to Warrior Some now holders as my old ones were BAD and messed up And of course my favorite thing to use now, The Easton Onesie thanks to Jukka!

New NCAA-stock skates. 6.75 EEA w/Flexlite 4.0 Pro tongues and LS3 steel.

My RPD Shift+ arrived yesterday. Finally part of the Alkali Family! The moldabilty of the skates is insane.in regards to sizing .. Justin (from alkali) and Josh V (who used to work for hockey monkey), helped me a great deal with ordering the right size. So a big thanks to those guys! Im sure i annoyed them loads with a flood of emails, asking for pics and measurements..Thanks guys! I wear a 6.5 in Alkalis (6 in bauers), and having the all 76mm setup is just what i was after as the wheel base is perfect. My wheels dont poke out loads, so will increase my agility compared to my old skates. Looking forward skating in them in a couple of weeks.

Cool photo, EJB! My oldest was out most of the early season due to a shoulder injury. After an MRI, the Orthopedic doc told her she could play if she wanted to, if she could manage the pain. She told me this weekend she misses it and wants to play again. :) :) :) I love watching her play.

broke a goalies mask during a pickup skate last night which ended the skate 10 minutes early.... PS: Time for these goalies to toughen up!

We beat a team yesterday that beat us 8-2 on Saturday. to top it off, I had 2 goals, one of them was the empty better to seal the win. After I scored the empty better, at the face off at center ice, the other teams best player cross checked me for no reason before the ref dropped the puck and got a penalty for it, which pretty much sealed the win for sure

I had to chew my kid out for tripping yesterday. She's a really good kid, learning to play a more physical game in Peewees. She's really learned to play the boards and body contact well. They had a 3-team festival this weekend. Played the other two games OK (teammates aren't passing --she's D, but the forwards weren't supporting each other) and then the other two teams played each other. They're rivals and they split the two games they played. The 2nd game got very chippy and dirty on both sides--5 penalties on each side. Then my daughter's team played the 2nd team and the dirty play came to the game (on both sides). Hooking, slashing, checking, tripping, elbows, cross-checking, cheap shots in the back. My kid must have thought, "Well, the other team is doing it and my team is doing it, so it must be OK." One would have been forgiveable/mistake, but three in a row were a trend I didn't want to see happen. I yelled at her and got her attention with my Dad voice. "NO TRIPPING AND CHEAP SHOTS. WE DO NOT PLAY THAT WAY." It pisses me off that I had to do it during a game. I am not that kind of Dad who coaches through the glass or in the car. I'm really proud of what my kids have learned, but I didn't want to see that sort of thing happening. It pisses me off that I had to yell at her when it pretty much crunched her morale for the next two periods (and an hour after). If I hadn't and she'd hurt someone, I would feel worse. It pisses me off that she'd do that. She knows better. It pisses me off that the refs didn't call it tighter--a lot of the crap (on both sides) happened in front of them. It pisses me off that neither of the coaches said anything--to the kids or to the refs. It pisses me off that the assistant coach (her D coach) told us after the game that he saw her throw an elbow. "I didn't teach her that, but I liked it." WTF, asshole? I don't want my kid encouraged to be a goon. One of her D linemates (there are 5 of them) is a complete little shit who throws elbows and cheap shots with abandon. He skates into his teammate's side and then bitches at them when they're not covering his back (while he leaves his back door wide open). He yells at the goalie, "Missed it, bitch", and tells the other kids he's the best player on the team and that they shouldn't tell him what to fucking do. He skates up the ice and launches floaters from the blue line, never hits the net, and never passes. Oh yeah, assistant coach's kid. The parent meeting is going to be interesting tonight. Half the parents want to tell the coaches to put in better power play lines because putting a goal on the board will boost morale. The other half of the parents see the bullying problem and lack of positive coaching as the issue.

thanks ice warehouse, for having ridiculously low priced RPD Max clearance skates, now I have two pairs of alkali lol. Guess I can use the Teams for concrete, and wont have to switch out the wheels in between.

Just got a killer deal on some Clearance RPD MAX skates. My Bauer x70's are a 10.0 D, so i'm hoping the 10.0 Alkali's will do the trick. Looking forward to trying them out!