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My team repeats as national champions, with a 41-0 season

Yes. Yellow superfeet; didn't work as well as I thought, went back to stock. I agree with this 100%.

But a lot of hockey players do skate badly and I think overly stiff boots are a contributor. (somefan--maybe I'm just duped by this hype? More on that below.) Compare starts in speed skating and in hockey. Hockey players are skating better than they did in the past, if I'm not mistaken from all of the 80's and 90's hockey I've recently watched on YouTube, but improvements like skates that increase range of motion go to make skating better. From my experience in skates that do and skates that don't fit well, it's much easier to skate better technically with a skate that isn't overly stiff. But you also need plantar flexion, you don't get very far with half strides. If your proposition were true, then the clap-skate, which allowed previously unattainable toe-flick, would have had little effect on speed-skating results when it came into use in the late 90's. Instead, it was attributed with essentially rewriting times from the world-records on through the whole field. About the "anatomical" last, it doesn't fit with what I've read in the marketing or heard from people who have these. What I'm getting from all of that is that it is quite customizable (though not completely, as JR pointed out), to relatively different anatomies--foot shapes of different types etc., and it is that better fit that is giving people much better feel, which in a lot of cases is directly correlative to greater efficiency.

I didn't think it would do well, but a couple guys on my team said they would have no problem dropping that cash for their kids. One of the kids is sitting out the entire season after his second concussion in a year or so.

But it's not just that one pattern, it's for all patterns across the entire Mako line. I still hear guys referring to patterns by their names (ex. Sakic/Hall, Modano, Iginla, etc.) Very rarely do I hear somebody say I want a P4/E4 or a P7/E7 pattern. The Stealth line of sticks still have the names on them so I'm not sure why they stopped doing that with the Mako 2. If anything, the lack of will cause a small inconvenience among the bulk of casual customers.