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Posted this in the "Team Jersey" thread, but I am sooooo excited about them... .....and here they are Had to change the Tackla logo... ...but in addition, I also scored this beauty Olive V10 QuoteMultiQuoteEdit

The entire internet jinxed that poor man.

Stick time down the street was pretty quiet. Me, a dad putting his son a grueling-looking practice, a kid getting a private lesson with one of the coaches, and later two kids and their dad. I asked the kid and the coach if they would like a goalie to shoot on, they said yes, so that was a nice 45 minutes or so. I had plenty of time to stretch and sprawl and work on movement without game pressure, the kid seemed to enjoy getting a goalie instead of just an open net, worked out for both of us.

You're doing great, keep it up....Loosen up and breath a little, you look pretty tense. Try to extend your leg more and pull it in all the way. keep your shoulders in line with your hips. It looks like you upper body is turned into the inside so it's twisting you up. Your hips are pointing one way and your shoulders another. Don't try to get your outside leg over to quickly, that's when you start developing that little hop. I would try doing it without even moving your outside leg. Just work on getting a good extension on the inside leg and pulling it in. Once that feels comfortable then work on bringing the other leg over. Make sure to work on both directions.

I got some new Eagles. I have wanted them since I was a kid, but was never able to get them. I am absolutely in love with how comfortable they are, I have had Bauers, CCMs, Warriors, Hespellers, Sherwoods, Coopers, Missions, Random ass ones I forgot about. These are by far the best right off the bat.

Leaving my game at 12:30 AM last night I noticed a composite stick in the trash. It was a Mission Warrior Convert DT3, broken at the blade. Felt nice and light so I thought it'd be a good project stick. Brought it home, attached a spare Montreal wood blade I have to the butt end, and sawed off the broken blade to my normal stick length, which was a few inches below where it begins to taper. Nothing too extreme, and an extra bit of taping evened out the feel. So now I have, sort of, a new-to-me composite shaft. I'm sure the flex point is in a weird spot, and I don't know how many slappers I could take with it before it gives up the ghost, but it's a light stick that is a good pond hockey spare/loaner. It feels pretty good but it's a little bottom heavy. "New" backwards composite stick The butt end, with a Montreal M9 European curve blade. This old wood blade makes the stick a bit bottom-heavy. The famous Mission Warrior Dagger Taper Technology is now the Dagger Top Hand technology. UPDATE: The stick is heavy at about 525g. I attribute much of this to the heavier wood blade. I'm sure it would be a fair amount lighter if I had a composite blade. Also I couldn't resist taking it for some shots in warmup. Obviously being a backwards stick the kick point is modified. As it is, it's still a decent mid-kick stick. Slappers felt pretty good. Wrist and snap shots though were a mess due to the stiffness of the lower shaft. It would only shoot as fast as I was strong, if that makes any sense. The stick doesn't add any whippiness to the shot. Overall a good stick for the price . Will probably keep it a dryland trainer.

Today's drop-in report: In short, I had to follow my own advice about save percentage. We had four goalies rotating on ten minute shifts, which is the perfect amount of time to just get cold before going back in. The other goalie who is a regular at this game let in 6 on his first 7 shots. I fared slightly better. Out of the entire session, there were maybe 3 I would really like to have back. Now that I've played a few times with this group, I notice they aren't taking many straight shots on me anymore; they're really working to cycle the puck, which I take as a compliment (by comparison, they shoot all the time from everywhere on the other guy, who lets in a lot of soft goals). My defense hustled hard but were simply outclassed by the other team today. I've improved my butterfly slides but was having a hard time tracking the one-timer as the pass was usually coming from deep in the corner or behind the net. I also had a harder time sliding than usual - the other goalie is quite a bit heavier than me and really gouges up the crease. He doesn't clean up any of the snow, either. It was hard to skate on, let alone slide on. Overall I thought my angles were solid and that I made 98% of the saves I could reasonably be expected to make. My breakaway play has improved dramatically and I stuffed a few more than usual today. I am starting to feel much more relaxed in the crease and I am not getting exhausted by scrambles anymore. I'm not losing sleep about giving up easy tap-in one timers or a tremendous point-to-point clapper that went top corner. What I am irritated by is my sudden inability to recover from awkward positions. They definitely had some easy chances they didn't take due to me being sprawled out. Since I flop so much, I think I'll start specifically working on that. A guy on my team also tackled an opposing player after he crosschecked him in the slot and then started hacking at me while I was covering the puck, so that was exciting.

You know what's humbling? Skating a 23 second lap, then tuning into the NHL skills competition and watching goalies skate a 15 second lap

Wheels are back Mako 2 + LS Edge + LS3 BlackEdge coated