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I referee. I see a lot of orgs, I know a lot of coaches and directors, and I've learned a lot. My dad also served on the board of 2 different organizations throughout the years. First, who are the directors? How do they run practices? How do they manage their coaching staff? For anything other than AAA, is there a strong house league program? How do the coaches interact with their players? Referees? How do they comport themselves on and off the ice? If I see a coach yelling and screaming at his players or the refs, and that coach is around for more than 1 season, there is a problem. I don't want to be involved with that organization. If I see an organization that isn't valuing equal ice time for a middling team at the AA level, I don't want to be involved with that organization. Obviously this one is most certainly not a hard and fast rule at almost any travel level, but a general guideline. If I see players that are rude to the referees, and get a lot of penalties, I don't want to be involved with that organization. If I see teams that only succeed because of the strength of their top line, there may be a problem. I want to see development. The best, most successful teams that I see have coaches that are quiet during the game. A kid comes off the ice after making the mistake, the coach will grab the board and try to teach, not berate. Their kids may joke with you, but they're not insulting you. They're having fun, even when they're losing. And cost is of course a huge deal. I'm not made of money.

Ultrasonic Glove in a beauty of a colour combo.

Age comes into it, what an 8 year old wants is totally different to what a 15 year old wants. But regardless of age or level, I still think the following applies - Cast your mind back to when you were in school, there were crap teachers, good teachers and occasionally a GOAT and you never, ever wanted to miss one of their classes. Same with hockey, it all stems from the coach and everything else follows afterwards. It could be one of the worst run organisations in a team that gets it's arse kicked every single game but if the coach connects with the kids and makes them want to be there then the rest of it doesn't really matter.

One shouldn't have to list "Fun" as an option in "Other". Regardless of all of the other things, if the kid isn't having fun then they'll never stick with the game long term.

You should NOT be able to slide... If you can slide a bic pen down the back of your heel then the skates are at least 1 size too big. Use an HB pencil, it's straight and slightly thinner and when you can't slide one of those down the back of your heel then you are about as close to a "perfect" fit for length that you will get from a retail skate. But perfect is subjective, some like toes just off the toe cap, some like them further back.

I tried 2s pro about year ago. I now have apx 2 vapor skates. There was a huge difference between supreme and vapor. 2s pro feels that i am skating on my heels and couldn’t get good forward lean. The boot are more neutral pitched than vapor in my opinion. Can someone tell me am i right about the pitch ? Few LHS gyus have told me that vapor have more aggressive stance than supreme skate. Also the eyeletline are L-shaped in vapors and U-shaped in Supreme’s and thats allow you to the better forward lean also.

But those 5 less grams on the FT3 are everything. It’s probably like 20 more goals over the course of a season

Not really Trigger 5 Pro 365 grams Jetspeed FT3 Pro 375 grams Halo 380 grams Tacks AS3 Pro 385 grams *advertised weights

I'm not saying this is why they are doing it, however, follow me here... In July 2016, there was an opposition filed to the USPTO (https://trademarks.justia.com/859/34/cooper-85934700.html). I'm guessing that someone challenged Bauer's ownership of the trademark for not having it used in commerce and their attorneys went into motion. A year later, the opposition was mysteriously dropped, and Bauer has since asked the USPTO for extensions, to the tune of a 5th extension filed and granted in March of this year. So, my guess is USPTO told Bauer to either shit or get off the pot, and this offering is them getting off the pot. BTW, this is why the NHL, for many years, has kept their top past team logos as offerings (i.e. NY Americans, Hartford Whalers, Minnesota North Stars, Quebec Nordiques) on nhl.com. Anyhow, carry on.