Had a Sunday/Monday skate, able to keep our gear in the lockerroom. Today after the skate, did a potluck outside the rink, visited, had food and some drinks. Stinking AWESOME two days.
If you want it to be easier to remove the footbeds, you can do like I did on these Graf footbeds which are also hard to remove. Put a strip of tape across the heel, let it stick out past the edge and fold it over into a tab like in this picture. Then you just pull on the tab to remove the footbed from your skate.
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!