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But it is custom!! CCM catalogue shows you can buy after market earloops and matching helmet stickers........... 🙄💰💰💰

I have a feeling there's a lot more "4500 or die" type guys out there than guys who will drop 4 bills on this helmet. When they come into stores I would definitely try one on though

Testing has shown the TRUE holders to be stiffer than TUUK and XS, so I am not sure if I agree with your "feeling." I like them just fine. If I stuck with 3mm wide steel I would rep the SHIFT holder all day long. However I am one of the few on the Flare bandwagon.

I never truly appreciated that technology until I tried Bauer NXGs and APX 2s to get away from the weight of my Langes. I appreciated the weight reduction and lateral stiffness of the new materials; but I found it impossible to lace them tightly enough for lateral support without restricting my forward flexion. I ended up returning the APXs for a refund and reselling the NXGs on eBay at a 50% loss, because I'd already sharpened and skated on them (once). About a year later, I tried once more with Graf 5035s and after skating in them 3 or 4 times, I resold them at a 50% loss because I decided that it would probably take me way too long just to be able to skate the same way I skate in my Langes and that I didn't want to invest that kind of time trying to do that, practicing in them and playing in my Langes for a full season or two. I doubt that flexion zones will provide the solution, because they'll probably only work in a single plane. The problem that gets overlooked in these discussions is that lacing and boot stiffness control movement in the lateral and longitudinal planes simultaneously without any way of adjusting them independently. As advanced as material technology is, I can't imagine that they'll be able to come up with materials that flex differently in different planes simultaneously, much less at any remotely-affordable price for a product that's expected to be flexed hundreds of thousands or millions of times during its intended life. That's what's so great about the hinge: I can tape above the hinge for lateral support without affecting forward flexion.

People were saying it would be the price of a flagship stick. This is more like the price of a high-mid tier skate. Or a car payment.

Some people should reread before they hit Submit.

Bring back the classic “squares” logo or gtfo.

Given how college players wear their stuff, I think the weirder thing is that the other kid’s cage isn’t two sizes too big.....