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Howdy, Is this your first time on an internet forum? :-) Mark

From PSH, these are 13” and came from the Avalanche. Nice fit, I like them so far.

The problem is that you’d have to pay shipping both ways which could be expensive. Obviously Sparx would honour the warranty in all other respects.

I do believe this one true fact. MN/WI should just enter our own team. OA of MN-WI

Helmet: Bauer 4500 with Bauer Re-akt Titanium cage Elbows: Koho EP 5500 (these are almost 30 years old, purchased 2nd hand in 1993, soft caps) Shoulders: CCM Quicklite QLT Shins: Bauer Supreme 1S Gloves: CCM Pro Stock/Team Stock 4 Roll II's HG4RRP (2012) - (Ottawa Senators), CCM Pro Stock/Team Stock 4 Roll II's HG4RRP (2012) - (Calgary Flames - Black) 2 PAIRS!!! Skates: Bauer Nexus 7000, LS 2 steel (non-profiled), Superfeet Carbon insoles, Nash tongues and Graf laces. Pants: CCM Quicklite Control (Sportcraft exclusive based on QLT 270s with segmented back and liner of QLT 290s) Sticks: Retail - CCM Jetspeed FT2 (P29, 75 flex), Retail - CCM Ribcore Trigger 2 PMT (P29, 75 flex), Retail - CCM Super Tacks 2.0 (P29 curve, 75 flex) Pro Stock - CCM Ribcore Trigger 3D PMT (Derian Plouffe, P38, Max Blade, 75 flex) Team Stock - CCM Super Tacks 2.0 LK (P19 curve, 75 flex) Pro Stock - True A 6.0 SBP Gen II - 2018 (Tyler Motte, Custom curve similar to P92, Max Blade, 80 flex)

The OTHER issue (especially on these types of skates) is the rivet size. In almost every case, the shop either replacing OEM rivets or doing an aftermarket holder swap uses the wrong size, therefore they're longer and there's internal space, allowing the rivet to get loose. Or they're not experienced enough to fit rivets and use a longer one because it's easier.

Howdy, No. Hoping to address a bit of that here. -DM

When you have a carbon fiber sole, it is hard for steel rivets to stay, as they can't curl and "bite" into the material. All of the brands who have done this style of sole has had those issues - all the way back to Easton with the Synergy. CCM's inner sole is texallium. That's how they get around it - it's hard, but still softer. What I normally do when I had to replace True rivets was that I mashed them with the copper rivet point (the flat one) so that it would flatten the rivet out. Now, as far as the whole casting and orthotics situation, I find it very interesting that they couldn't make the skate from the casting, at the very least. Now, I've read that you guys have had issues using aftermarket footbeds in your skates, but I've sent that same combination of items (casting/orthotic) to other brands for customers, and they've built them from that, and built them to accommodate the orthotic.

You had the skates 2 weeks and had rivet issues that wouldn't have occurred in another skate unless you had a riveter that was totally incompetent. It screams of a problem. Doing rivets is easy work. It slides in the hole. It sounds to me like the carbon sole has inherent weaknesses for that to occur. As for the quality control issues - you are right - it is unacceptable and no one on this forum would have ever given CCM or Bauer a pass on that like they do with True. More objectivity is needed here.

I was all set to test out a couple tapered blades until I got to the $38 for standard shipping.