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If acceleration is a weak point of his, why not examine his skating mechanics and training first? I would guarantee there is more potential there than with messing around with blade profiling. If I had a kid who claims he needs more acceleration, strength, explosiveness, and skating mechanics are the places I would be focusing on.

Yeah, there’s so much info about the health and sports “career” benefits of being a multi-sport athlete. Lacrosse, baseball, ballet, track, tennis, lawn darts, whatever. This feels like it’s going the opposite direction, and pigeonholing everything into hyper specific movements and actions related to one sport.

Qualifying something as bad or good is subjective. Sustaining radical innovation is almost impossible, incremental innovation is the lifeblood of most companies. It is not uncommon to cede market share in the long run, it's sort of the basis of, along with serving existing customers, the Innovator's Dilemma. You need to find the blue ocean, the areas to innovate in where others aren't playing. Easier said than done. Eventually the entire ocean may become red in which case something becomes a commodity and competes on price alone.

These seem like a solution to a problem that never existed.

I don’t think rewarding bad consumer behavior is a healthy thing. For example, Apple has convinced everyone that they need the new iPhone/Macbook the day it releases even though there are only incremental updates at best. Eventually, this always gets the best of companies when they are chasing innovation, just look at Intel and others who once owned the market and now are struggling to maintain their market share. Like anything, there is a law of diminishing returns. For hockey equipment, if you chase weight, you likely sacrifice durability and/or protection.

I learned that PBH is a pretty big hitter. Having a 2600 stick inventory, and selling them, in Nevada is impressive.

Hockey community: “I hate how expensive everything is and how nothing really changes. STX: Hey guys, look at these different ideas we are trotting out. Hockey community: Oooooooh, Bauer slapped a new model name on the supreme line and is charging 10% more than last year for effectively the same product. It must be great!