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Quality of product does not depend on country where it is made but on people it is made by. You can find poor quality in USA and Canada. All it takes is an inconsiderate management that breeds not caring work force. In case of Graf Canada, in last 3 or 4 years of their existance, quality of product produced in Canada was often crapier than of the lines made in China. I hope people would put that behind by now. Graf Canada is dead and gone, people who ran it into the ground are no longer associated with Graf and Claude Lemieux is finally properly retired and exhibits no efforts to get involved in any of the hockey equipment manufacturing efforts. So we should take a breather an move on. Discussions like in this thread are targeted not at a company that makes the skates, but at an assumption that somehow a tarnished company's name will forever plague the quality of products produced under it. If Vaughn, would have changed the name on these product from Graf to Vortex or some shit like that, their products would have been looked at with fair level of optimism such as the case with Verbero. I do not know of the quality level, nor technology, or how long they will last. Until someone buys a pair of Vaughn produced pair of Graf skates (foreign or domestic), play with them for 2-3 month, and then comeback here and writes his review, all this talk is just fumes.

It's finally kicking in for me that I'm flying out to Germany tomorrow, to perform in concerts that people will pay actual money to attend. Also, we're going to hang out with a bunch of European Unitarians at a conference. My director has promised to record at least one of the concerts, so my mother will be able to hear us sing at least once.

players that don't take any consideration to the fact that I have to handle their jerseys after their time on the roster ends. It's bad enough that I'm dealing with human sweat and sometimes blood... but tonight I had to drive home, an hour in a snow storm, suffocating in the stench of the 1970's ass HAI KARATE cologne this old son of a bitch apparently bathed in. Cheap fragrances aside- cologne on game day... we're playing hockey, not rolling into a fucking nightclub trying to smash some cougars.

Teammate got a pretty good one of me.

Me and the family went to a local roller hockey rink to play around last weekend, I gave my wife the camera so she could get some photos of us. I'm not much of a roller hockey guy, the skates I have had for ages (and I hate them, they don't fit right), but it was fun to skate around with the kids since they both really love playing. March 13, 2016-JDS_6624-web by Jon Schusteritsch, on Flickr March 13, 2016-JDS_6440-web by Jon Schusteritsch, on Flickr March 13, 2016-JDS_6435-web by Jon Schusteritsch, on Flickr

Maybe he's just not good enough to follow it so he hopes by being vocal he can inspire others? I don't know. Lol.

Getting frustrated by certain people. I feel like I'm being set up to fail and everything I do to avoid it results in criticism.