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It is beer league. Nobody thinks about Home/Visitor. As long as both guys are pretty square with sticks down, have at it.

Mine arrived yesterday. Nice looking skate from top to bottom...Blacksteel is pretty hot. The overall fit was kinda meh. I kind of expected that out of the box. I went with a size 6, tapered, no surprise there. Length and depth appear to be good. I took them in to get them baked today. They feel pretty dang good right now. Heel is really locked in place. Pretty good wrap and spacing post bake. The skates reacted well to the molding process. Feels like a different skate list bake. The tapered fit profile is very vapor-like. A bit more volume in the forefoot and a smaller heel. The ankle padding is new. No more memory foam, bummer I know. Still a comfortable skate. The new tongue is a welcome upgrade as is the new tendon guard. So what happened to good supportive foot beds in high end skates? The ones in these are litterly laughable. Can't wait to take them for a rip.

Hyper lite has a lot of borrowed tech from the Mako but I’d also try the JetSpeed line. Probably the closest you’ll find

The reason I drop an eyelet is so I can tie my skates tight from top to bottom and still get the flexion, consistently. I don't like tying the top eyelet looser bc it affects the tension for the rest of the eyelets even with waxed laces.

For Hockey Canada faceoff rules and procedures, read through this: http://rulebook.hockeycanada.ca/english/section-10/rule-10-2/#:~:text=A face-off shall take,sticks flat on the ice. The visiting team is always supposed to put their stick down first, but that's just one of several rules. Other key items include players lining up square across from each other (a player shouldn't be lined up sideways - their feet should be shoulder width apart and their toes should be pointed forward) and the players sticks should be in the white crescent on their side of the dot (most rinks in Canada have these white crescents on all the dots except center).

freestylers use this forward flex method a lot, here's a vid of one guy showing this (as well as going for a no lace skate).