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Found this in storage at the LHS I work at. Manager gave it to me for free.

I've mentioned before that I haven't had a lot of success with CCM skates over the long term - usually it was strictly a fit issue. On some, the volume wasn't right. On others, it was too much volume. Or it was the arch. Or it was too wide. You get the point. Then Jetspeed came along. While those seemed to fit me pretty decently, there was something odd about it. Well-made skate, but in terms of bleeding-edge technology that we were seeing from competitors and upstarts, it simply wasn't there. And there's nothing wrong with that. The skate is what it is, and the price point reflects that.. The first iteration of the Tacks reboot was interesting, however, once again, it really did not have "it." And this version just might. With Super Tacks, you're seeing a departure from skates that come boxy out of the box; gone are those cavernous heels and ankles without definition of any sort. It is similarly shaped to Jetspeed in the rear, but wider in the front. The toe box is nuts. It feels like nothing before - completely seamless. The way it is achieved is the outer toe box goes over the bootsock, held together by a rivet on both sides; as if it's snapped in. To get a better understanding of it, I went ahead and unmounted the holder to see what was underneath. The boot is beveled to accommodate the TPU outer toebox covering. The bottom of it is held in by the rivets when the holder is on. The tongue is different from the initial pictures of the skates in the catalogue; that one called for a molded tongue. This is a good compromise between that and a standard felt tongue. Also noticed a running change with the graphic; my pair does not have the grey heel accents that the stock photos had. They baked well; it is interesting to see what happens to the carbon fiber post-bake. You can see where it was pushed out - it looks like ridges. In my case, they were at the balls of my feet, on both sides; the inner was more pronounced than the outer. The boots wrapped very well after the bake. One of my biggest fears was that they were going to be extremely stiff, considering the materials and also the tendon guard. Won't be able to touch on that until I skate them, but I received them a couple of days ago. As far as sizing is concerned; I went with 11D. My Jetspeeds were 10.5 D. I'm a 10.5 D in Bauer Supreme and 10.5 EE in Vapor. Thanks goes out to the team at CCM Hockey for providing me with this pair. Any questions in regards to my experiences can be posted here; general thoughts on Super Tacks can be posted in the Catalogue thread.

Updated the post to show how the skate pushed out after bake. This is what JS is referencing to in his post on the catalogue thread.

Thursday Drop In Report: 3-on-3 half-ice. Ugh. 85% humidity in the rink. Ugh. Hot as fuck. Ugh. Didn't play bad, but FUCK did I get winded. The linger it went, the more goals I let in due to fatigue. Ugh.