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I've been involved in pro hockey, in one way or another for 22 years. I post from professional experience in seeing these things first hand. Sure, opinions are like assholes; one is always bigger than another, however, NOTHING has changed with regards to custom skates. Ask Jeremy Roenick about his experience in LA with Easton skates and every skate rep being called at 11pm to be at the practice rink by 8am in order to fit him for skates. Your belief is that if you spend that kind of money, it should be perfect right out of the box. You'd think that would be the same whether you paid +$1000 or a NHL team paid $+900USD for the same. Unfortunately, there's a preconceived notion that custom skates should be PERFECT, and that's just not how it works. It certainly doesn't work with the TRUE brand fitting system and hate to say it, it will ALMOST work with the Bauer, but not 100%. I've seen one of the top NHL players IF NOT THE top NHL player receive skates from the company HE endorses and the skate was off! As a matter of fact, said player got the skates in last years playoffs and spent all of this season in last year's model skate (cue the Google searchers...LOL). I've seen a TRUE brand skate fitting. It is ANYTHING but perfect. I was invited to watch how it works and I wanted to kill myself after it was complete. It was that painful to watch and I felt bad for the fitter! What I came away with is that there's so much room for error just because of how the fitter has to move around. If TRUE had created a track with a tripod attached that the iPad could fit in and could slide around and capture all of the proper angles, I think that it would improve the fitting process and the final fit of the skate for the consumer. Would it be 100%, no, however, it might be closer than the "try and hold the iPad properly and walk around this poor bastard you're trying to fit, while making him/her stand in different poses to get the fit.

I'm so sorry, man. There's not much worse than that feeling. But know your furkid and friend is still running around your heart. We had to let ours go in June from cancer as well. It took 6 months before we were able to open our hearts again. But we got a little rescue puppy in March. Hopefully you'll be ready to give your heart to another needy pup at some point. We did find that having a Cuddle Clone made really helped with the pain. It is so well done, and was like he was still there in some ways. That gave us some closure by interacting with it and allowing him to leave us gradually over time, rather than so suddenly.

The only chest pounding I typically come across is people letting everyone know they weren’t dumb enough to spend $299 for a top of the line stick.

On the topic of socks in conjunction with True skates, I tried a pair of Copper Fit compression socks and believe it or not, they felt great, better than any sock I had used and I have tried a lot of socks. I ended up buying 2 more pairs. I used Swiftwick for a while not too long ago but eventually they made my calves itch (weird I know). If I can’t use the Copper Fit pairs because they are dirty, my fallback are Under Armour skate socks.

I abandoned Stable 26 socks once I got my Trues, and instead use them in my ski boots now. I use Fox River liners - very thin socks, but I also like that almost barefoot feeling, w/o actually being barefoot.

Man, I remember watching an NHL player before practice, soak his feet in buckets of ice water for 15 mins so they'd shrink and fit into his custom made skates. I wont name the skates, but they rhymed with Sour Grapers.

Similar system, one change, better than TRUE because of that, but still not what the process could, or in @Nicholas G opinion, what it should be. It will NEVER be perfect out of the box! Further to my previous post, I was on the spot back in the day when Kor fitted Peter Forsberg. The skates were perfect; he didn't think so.

Wut.

Guess sliced bread is still the greatest invention!!

That sounds awfully hot. Did he skate barefoot in them?

Martin St. Louis.

I have. Hell, I've seen an entire skate lined in lambswool.

I mean you should be calculating work and not some mass value multiplied by a frequency. So let's not get all high fivey yet.

I scored the first goal of my hockey "career" in an actual game this weekend during the Annual Guns & Hoses Tournament. I know it wasn't in a professional or collegiate setting, but to be honest, it was kind of a surreal experience and one I will never forget. I am glad it came while playing for the Dallas Police Department Hockey Team and am honored to continue to represent the fine men and women of the Dallas Police Department while playing the greatest sport. Glad that I dragged my wife out of bed at 5:45 in the morning so she could be there to see it in person. I know this isn't a picture of myself, but unfortunately I didn't have a sharpie at the rink to properly adorn the puck.

We had to put my dog to sleep on Sunday. :( The cancer caught up to him. It's so empty in the house without our dog.

Swear words. Several of them. TFW the first sharpen lasts longer than the steel. 🤬🤬🤬🤬