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Finally met EJB in person. This past weekend in Idaho Falls, his daughter's team played the 14U select team I help coach. His kid has a WICKED shot for a 12 year-old! I can see why she was the high scorer for the league. 2 games; his daughter's team won the first 7-2 and she frequently dangled our D. I think she had 3 goals and 2 assists. 2nd game, the MT girls won 4-2. I think they shut EJBjr down to 1 goal--they had to close the gap, put a body on her, force her outside, and shut down her dangles. Sorry EJB, it had to be done!

Thomas Raffl's 80 flex Alpha QX dressed as a black QRL...look at that paddle!

HockeyTron = cheap shit sold cheap. As long as that's all you're expecting, you won't be disappointed.

My buddy was nice enough to get some pics of me at a private pickup last week. Not bad for his first time shooting hockey!

Yeah. It's very likely, but such a random location. Good thing I wear cut resistant socks. Last thing I need to do is lose an achilles.

Can you show a pic of the inside of the boot and how you got the mlx screw system to work?

This shows where my head is at, but all I can see is the shiny new QR Edge stick. :p

If your budget allows, I'd look into attending a camp from one of the following compaines (in order of advancement) https://weekendwarriorshockey.com/ http://nolimithockey.com/ https://hammerhockeydevelopment.com/ It's not just individual skills. They focus a lot on positioning and team play, both on and off the ice. They even video tape a camp scrimmage and break down the video. The dot lane concept is a good, effective one that can work without a lot of practice. Center lane drive - that is attacking and backchecking through the middle of the ice - works also because it's simple. The second forward always skates as hard as possible through the middle of the ice to the net, without doing it to get a pass. Just put your head down and skate as hard as you can to the net with your stick on the ice. This creates space for the rest of the team, and puts a forward in front of the net for rebounds. You won't believe how effective that is. On the other side, the high forward backchecks through the middle of the ice instead of at the opponent with the puck. If you think about it, you want to keep the other team to the outside. So if the forward skates up the middle, you take away that area, use a better defensive angle, and keep the puck and puck carrier from getting back inside. If he instead follows up behind the opponent skating out, he's then outside in a bad position not really covering anyone with the defenseman still having to come outside to get in front and leaving a gap in the middle. What's nice about the center lane drive concept is it's fluid, it doesn't apply to any one position. If you're the second forward into the zone, you skate to the net. If you're the first forward back, you skate through the middle back to the zone. In the defensive zone, you want to stress taking away passing and shooting lanes. The concept of the "house" was presented in other threads. The idea is easy - take away the middle of the ice and don't worry as much about the outside, and you can still cover the outside by being in the middle. So rather than trying to get everyone to stick to a guy which really just ends up in guys getting lost, you want them to stay somewhere on the line between the puck and the net. It doesn't matter where along that line as long as you're in it. Erring to the middle is better than to the edges. And the idea of blade mirroring or stick-on-puck is highly effective. Getting your blade near the puckcariier's blade and moving it to match is often more effective than being in the right place.

Unsure if this is the best place to post this, but I just picked these up yesterday. Got a nice deal on a set of Bauer X800R boots ($100) and the frames on Ebay for $130. I Had them mounted here in NJ at Monkey Sports Woodbridge for $40 beans. Can't wait to give them a go as soon as this snow storm passes through!

Excellent news! Sherwood and Warrior are my favorite manufacturers in the stick category and I’d hate to lose either of them. Keep kickin ass Michael