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Think of it like this. Mako is a stock boot with custom insides (thanks to the level of heat molding ability). VH is a custom boot with custom insides. If you tried on a pair of VH, then it must have just been a stock boot they have. Buying VH without going custom is just silly. So while you may not like the Mako fit, there's no good reason why anyone wouldn't like the VH fit because it's literally made for your foot. The only way I could see somebody not liking VH is just because they're used to an ill-fitting ski boot-like boot and don't like things feeling different to them.

Drop-In Report: Lacklustre turnout leads to lacklustre play with the exception of today, which is why no reports until now. 2 on 2 that turned into 3 on 2 was interesting, to say the least. My bitter rival whom we nearly had a dust up a year and a half ago was there. Our rivalry was from when I used to skate out, and he would do crap like headlock me in the corners. I was in touch with my inner Doug Gilmour when I played against him, I admit. I still could dig the puck out of a scrum and it perpetually pissed him off. We nearly came to blows when I ran him whilst winding up at the point after all 250# of him accidentally on purpose fell nearly direct upon my knees. Needless to say I was amped to play against that jerk... I stopped almost every one of his shots. I did a nifty two pad stack that turned into a toe save; of course I also ended up getting a goal in on a bank off of my arse from someone else on the next play. I only let in one goal against him, and it was a play that spread me everywhere with no defense to be found. If he would not have gotten that goal in, I would have laughed out loud at him. Schmuck. My bitter rival tried buzzing one by my ear, which turned into a shoulder save. I caught many in my elbow floater and on the shaft of my stick (my signature save, it seems). In the end, I frustrated my bitter rival. I smiled like the Cheshire Cat. Not a bad end to my regular weekday drop-in play.

While at a fundraiser for Hockey4All (and more specifically, the Antarctic Hockey project) I won the only raffle item I cared about: a professional photographer coming to one of our games to take photos. I'm really excited! A couple teams ago we had a photographer come in and get great action shots of everyone, and we had hockey cards made up from the photos. Awesome!

I am sorry I missed your post above somehow where you explained everything. You know best how you feel, they are different than your vapors yes, but I do believe that you gave up way too fast if you skated only a few minutes or so on them. I could not step on my feet after removing them after the first hour or two, arch completely numb and in pain, which is simply the amazing wrap my feet have never seen and keeping somewhat squezzed , my feet were always used to ''flatting out in skates that were always too wide and too voluminous''.

Sorry I didn't see your post, as it wasn't up yet.

My feet were going numb too the 1st few shifts, zero problems now. Which ones did you get? The original Mako's were slightly softer than the M2, M8 and m7, but they are not a soft skate by any means, you must really like a stiff boot.

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Team photo from this weekend's tournament. I am (of course) the goalie. Should've taken off my sweatband. Oh well.

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.