Leaderboard

Scored my first playoff goal tonight!

I'm very excited to get my Sparx sharpener. I think I'll be in the 2nd or 3rd wave.......

that depends on your situation. I bought a Wissota over 10 years ago for somewhere in the $600-$700 range. here in ATL the rink shops are notorious for doing poor sharpenings. at that time we only had one non-rink shop in town and it was probably 35 miles from my house and not open on Sundays. if you couldn't get up there on Saturday you were SOL and of course at a 70 mile round trip we couldn't just leave our skates if they were busy so we invested in the Wissota and not only did our own skates but also did skates for teammates and friends at $5 per. the machine has paid for itself several times over just in the $5 charge not to mention the savings in gas and the wear and tear on my car.

Slumps happen, and the more you focus on the fact you need to break a slump, the less likely it is to happen. Get your head back into the right place. Forget what's come before and start watching what's coming. You've improved dramatically over the short time you've been playing. Make yourself feel better by watching one of your first videos, then watch a recent one. You'll see how far you've come.

Here's where the confused Australian comes in to make sure he knows what we're talking about (forgive my lack of knowledge). I always thought the dashers were the ledge at the top of the boards, but in the context with Ktang, I'm now assuming it's the small bit at the bottom of the boards that I always referred to as a kick plate. Both are present in our rink, a timber ledge at the top of the boards, and a yellow kick plate at the bottom of the boards, but the bottom edge is currently covered by the liner sheet sticking up from the edge of the ice. This liner will be trimmed back when the ice is complete, revealing the bottom edge (the same edge as you can see behind me in my profile picture just below my catcher). I'm told that we are expecting the boards to be replaced late this year, as a continuing part of our rink upgrade. However getting a usable ice surface in the short term was the most immediate goal.

Of course, True will only have about 5% of a store right now. They are just starting to expand beyond sticks. That said, the sticks have taken off well in this area. Several teammates now sport some version of a True stick (it didn't hurt that I was a LTR tester and they got an introduction to the brand in the room and were impressed enough to give them a go).

Welcome! I had the same experience and totally agree. I've had mine for 6 months or so and have kind of gotten used to (spoiled by) them. I strapped on my (Bauer) inline skates recently and remembered how lucky I am to have found this thread.

I wish they had the Comfort Edge (& maybe the fiber composite outsole because that's what my Vapors have), but they offered everything else I wanted & I couldn't justify the extra $200+ for the S190s. I'll be getting the baked as soon as I can make it to the local TH, but right out of the box they were more comfortable than the vice grip smash I get from my Vapors currently. I was trying to wait until I could post a pic before talking about them, but I saw your post & got excited all over again.

Scooped some new Supreme S180s today. I had been in Nexus' per a recommendation by a local shop and they just weren't working for my foot shape. I finally found a shop that was willing to spend some time with me and tried a whole bunch of skates out. Landed on these. Ended up with a set of Speed Plates too, here's to hoping they don't crack!

QLT's replace the KFS Line, not CL's. Side note though, the QLT's have more of a CL-like cuff roll rather than KFS-like.

Well all be darned, we won 9-2 on Saturday night, against the Saturday Knights. lolOur team dominated the first period and we were up 4-0 at the end of it. I'm not too certain that it was because we had great shots, but rather their goalie wasn't at his best. He usually plays way better, and he let in the first shot he saw. As a goalie, that crap is impossible to get out of your head! Their first goal on me came in the 2nd period, I joked with my defenseman that he got the assist AND the goal on it. After one blind, backhand clearing attempt up the middle, I stopped a shot and steered the rebound to the left corner, this time the other defenseman did the ol' blind backhand up the middle, right to the opponents stick. The guy ripped a clapper that was going high glove, but the same defensemen redirected it downwards and into the net from about the mid-slot. It was a beauty of a redirect, lol!!! That was it for the scoring in the 2nd. In the third we came alive again, scoring 5 goals. Their next goal came late in the 3rd, our left d'man got beat around the corner and the guy was coming in from just outside the face-off dot, moving from his right to left. I had him squared up but cheated a bit anticipating a backhander from across the crease....however he stayed forehand and squeaked it in between my pad and the post. Oh well.Their ringer that was routinely scoring 3+ goals for them last season isn't playing with them this season, and it is hurting them. They are in the basement with us, sitting at 3-6 on the season so far. I felt like I played well, stopped a few breakaways from their ringer "sub" that was filling in for them. The score sheet says I stopped 15 of 17, I hate to say it, but I think that was fairly accurate, as I really didn't see a whole lot of action. Nonetheless, it felt great to break a 4 game losing streak!!!Oh yeah, forgot to mention, I got an assist on our last goal of the game! I was in reverse vh along the right post, their forward tried to throw it to the slot from below the goal line, in which I broke up the pass with the paddle of my stick, it went right to our star center, whom took it coast-to-coast and buried it for the 9th goal and my first assist of this season.

So our ice is delayed a few more days, but I managed to get a shot from our new crease. Can't wait to protect it.

Didn't have a bad game last night but it wasn't the greatest either. The game ended in a 3-3 tie. Got caught off my angle once and the other 2 goals resulted from me trying to kick the puck to the corner to find out that no one decided to pick up the wide open opponent just waiting to bang in the rebound. Before the game started one of our worst players decided that he was all of a sudden a goalie expert and attempted to tell me that I needed to challenge the shooter more. This guy is one of about half of the team that does not back check and can't even keep up skating wise in a 'Never-Ever' League. He hasn't even played for half the time that I have in net! To say the very least that didn't go over very well with me. I'm hoping to go to a couple of public skates this week with my gear on and just practice my slides so I can attempt to stop the wide open players that are getting to my rebounds. One-on-one lessons will have to wait another week because I haven't received my work schedule yet.

Congrats to the small fry!

Took my daughters to a Lyndsey Fry camp in Seattle this weekend. She's a pretty incredible coach at such a young age. Younger daughter got asked to come back for tryouts for their club's AA team to go to the Beantown tourney in July. Awesome for her. But I'm seriously not ready for this!