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I don't know what it's like today since I don't follow roller hockey anymore, but in the old days during the RHI league, some of those pro players had their frames mounted so far back that the rear wheel stuck out and the front wheel didn't. When I got Sprung frames, the mounting instructions said to mount the frames 1/4" back from center, and I got used to switching from ice to roller without to much balance problems so I think that mounting the frame a bit rearward makes sense if you don't overdo it. I think the balance point is more important than whether the front wheel sticks out or not.

Pronation effects your stride, balance, power you get into the ice, technique etc. In fact everything you do on the ice is impacted by pronation. If you are not aligned correctly over the top of the skate blade you will never EVER skate to your full potential. I don't care how much you train, your fundamental technique will always be flawed. There are lots of articles you will find on the web re pronation in skates, this is a good one http://bladesbytodd.com/2015/08/09/mounts/ or this for what a trained person can do to correct foot issues and pronation https://www.aapsm.org/pdf/humble-skatinga.pdf If you can't put the time in to train laces untied (which I find surprising if you are playing AA?, I am sure I read this in one of your posts) then you are left with a physical process (shims etc). imho a LHS is the last place you want to go to see someone about pronation (no disrespect intended for those knowledgeable owners on this forum) because it's a crap shoot, 99.9% will not have a clue about what you want. If you want to work with a skate related person I think you are better off finding a very good figure skate coach or figure skate fitter, they have dealt with this all the time whereas hockey just pretends it doesn't exist. Or go and see a professional, I'd suggest you find one of these people in your area and go and see them - http://www.aapsm.org/members-midwest.html#mn At least you recognise pronation has an impact on your skating and you want to do something about it. Training more, without fixing the problem, ISN'T the solution.

Process - go to a local skate shop you trust and talk to them about what you think you need and whether they can help you. If they are a shop with good, knowledgeable staff, they should be able to get you set up with shims.

Ok that's a loaded question are you just trying to rile everyone up now? 🙂 Let's start with the fact that lie number means almost nothing these days and the rocker (or lack thereof) makes lie comparisons between patterns highly subjective. That said, the P90T/P90TM and P88 are the same or just about the same lie based on the comparisons I've done with two sticks in my hand. Certainly they are more similar in lie than the Bauer P88 vs. P92, which Bauer lists both as a 6, but are very different lies. The P88 is lower than the P92. Same with the P90T. In the old days of wooden sticks we could torch them on the stove and bend our own curve in them... picture having a wooden P88 that you torched just from the toe back to the mid-blade, then you bent the toe in for more curve and back for more loft to create an open kink at the end. That's the P90T/P90TM.