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After a year of work behind the scenes to make it happen, on Sunday night, the first new club in my state in fifty years had our first game on the ice. We're playing at B Grade (in Australia, that's still a fair way off North American standards), and our opponents obviously were worried about being the first team to play us, so stacked their team with 5 players that had been playing at A Grade level for the past 5+ years. Not a fantastic result for us, going down 7-0, but I'm only disappointed about two of them. 40 shots on goal to 14 tells me we had other issues in our game, but there was a consistent improvement from one period to the next. Since it's the first time we've played together as a team, against an experienced opponent, we're happy to move forward. Honestly, just standing in my crease just before the opening puck drop, looking forward at five other players wearing our jersey, I couldn't have been prouder of the work we've done to get to that point. On our opponent's bench was one of the founding members of our state's hockey league (just hit 50 years) in tears that he was there to witness the birth of another club.

thats pizza. bad pizza, its true representative of what you get served at lil caesar.

The Hockey Fights T1D team from the 1st Annual Hockey Fights MS Tournament

Anyone know of a Rangers or Islander's team sale?

Awesome, thanks! I got them a while ago but haven't used them yet. I'll be getting back on the ice this week and will report back.

Milwaukee Admirals next Tuesday/Wednesday. Should be lots to be had, they're moving arenas and likely won't move anything unnecessary.

All by my lonesome last week at a stick and puck. Sometimes it's fun to just skate around by yourself!

Got the new skates baked & sharpened this weekend, can't wait to use them in a game (had to use my old ones for my last game as these had just been baked like an hour before hand). I also will switch out the laces for either Elite white or perhaps yellow waxes ones soon too. From Vapor X:40 9D to Supreme S180 8.5EE. :)

A pic from last Friday's Championship. We managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Played a team that went 22-3, most goals scored. We held them to 10 shots, back checked like madmen. They couldn't do anything. 2 minutes left we get called for a interference penalty. A minute left they pull the goalie. 6 on 4. With 10 seconds left we had a Defenseman tripped moving the puck out, it's more than obvious. This guy is a former Major Junior A player who just doesn't fall down. Call isn't made, puck is picked up low in our zone and wham-o, they tie it. And we lose in sudden death OT. Third straight trip to the finals, no wins. Well I didn't win "Best Dressed" at our year end Dhow Cruise. I did get "Top Forward".

I also take em out to air out after every skate. They stay in place with no problems.

Nope. They stay in there fine.

You just don't use the adhesive.

Supreme 180's. I don't use the shim. I do have ginormous big toe (at least it feels it to me...) and it was tad bit too tight with the shims.

What I did was to experiment using and not using the shim by not permanently attaching them to the toe box. In the end I wound up using the shim, but I just insert them and take them out with every use. I just prefer to be able to take them out to air dry and occasionally spray them with deodorizer.

I have supremes, and I use the shim.

I just ordered a pair, Anyone else have Mx3 or similar fitting skates, do you use shim or not?

Here's a pic of the blade shape for reference: I'm 90% sure that our samples are lie 6.

I just ordered a pair...

I really wasn't looking to buy anything but after reading this thread I think I'm sold.

I've only got one. MEGA AIR 90