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My team has a fairly regular warm up routine. They'll skate a couple laps while I scuff my crease, then I get one shooter who gets about 10 shots on me from in front just to help get the eye in. Then it's a drill from the right corner, a group of three go out, to the blue line - first one skates across the blue line curls back and shoots, after the save, I have enough time to quickly recover for a shot from number two who skated along the blue line to the centre, curls back for a shot, then recover for number three who hit the blue line, skated to the left side and takes a shot. Gives me three shots in fairly quick succession that I have to move and track with. Repeated from the left after the whole team go through, saving the last couple to give a couple dangles to get me moving laterally (which if they come earlier I just ignore). When we recruited for our team, we somehow managed to avoid the douches that like to slap shot the net with the goalies back turned.

Been through a lot the last 2 and half years. In 2014 Diagnosed with recurrent PSC (Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis) Tubes in my liver for three months in the spring. In July I had a massive infection in my kidneys. Where the doctors at one point told my wife I had 24 hours to start to improve or I wouldn't make it. Then my second liver transplant on November 7, 2014. In 2015 Had a hernia surgery in May Had another hernia surgery in October. In 2016 Finally got the OK to start working out in February. Starting public skating in May. Last night I got back on the ice for the first time since Summer Jam in Toronto in 2013. I wasn't very good last night, but boy did have a lot of fun.

Thought these were pretty cool:

If what you have fits you and you like it, I'd keep it to save some cash!

Took the Super Tacks skate out for a spin today and was quite impressed. The skate was very responsive and well built. I normally wear a 7.5D Supreme and stayed with a 7.5D Tacks. I did not have them baked (just spot heated some pressure points) but I feel I can fit a 7.0D after baking. The toe cap feel reminded me of a cross between a Supreme and Mako. This is the one CCM skate I've been excited about in recent years. It will be CCM's widest fitting retail boot. You'll have to go custom if you need a skate with more volume (similar to the Nexus or RBZ). I would buy a pair when it releases but the price (and no EPP incentive at this time) makes it difficult to justify switching from my Supremes.

I'm sometimes honestly surprised that anybody would shoot on a goalie whose back is turned, or who isn't looking toward the shooter. I mean, sometimes it happens in a game that a shot comes from an angle you don't quite scramble too fast enough. But in practice or warm-ups, it should be basic courtesy (and safety awareness) not to fire off a small, hard chunk of rubber at someone who is not aware of the shot incoming. (padded someone, yes, but not everywhere). I mean, when my softball team practices or is warming up, we don't throw the ball at someone who's not looking. When I'm at a mixed-age stick time, I do have to remind young kids not to shoot at my back, and not to shoot when someone else is in the lane (the mite age group tends to wander), but like, adults. We should know this. At the very least, understand that if your goalie is injured, you end up with at best an annoyed goalie, and at worst an injured goalie who cannot play.

I'm not sure if my teams last goalie said something to the team about shooting when the tendy's back is turned or about eye contact but the team as a whole is pretty smart with the whole idea. That's a huge surprise to me since it is a beginner's league. They normally do a breakaway style warmup but there's only one guy that will try and deke but he'll normally save that to the end just as a little extra warmup for both of us (he also only does it once). Most of the shots out of this beginner's league do end up being off of fast breaks so the breakaway warmup makes a lot of sense for me. A few slapshots will get thrown in the mix every now and then but they can't really elevate them anyways so it doesn't make much of a difference.

Seattle Thunderbirds equipment sale on June 24th.

2016 Red Wings equipment sale

I'm using both with no issues. The toe box is already fairly short so I don't use the shim for the Power Foot insert.

I'm presuming it will be ok to use superfeet/powerfoot with these skates if we wanted to?