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I took a chance on Prostockhockeysticks in summer 2021 and haven't looked back. Two key reasons: Seems like stick prices keep going up every year at retail No more Bauer P14 or similar at retail Coming from custom CCM Trigger 2s, I was super happy with how the first stick played. I'd even go as far as saying it had a little more pop in the shots than the Trigger so I went ahead and ordered 5, and recently went in on another order of 10 since it gets cheaper the more you buy. Value-wise, if I order 5, I can get two for the price of one top end retail. You also don't need to order 5 of the same, which is nice. If anyone's curious this is my config: RH P14, 70 Flex Red Line 375G (also ordered a 350g which I haven't tried yet) Rounded Square Low Kick Grip with Basketball texture Z-tac blade finish For what it's worth, the last high end retails I used were the 1X Lite, 2S, Trigger 2, and Jetspeed and it plays better than all of them IMO.

I'd be curious to know if it happened on both skates or just one. If just one, perhaps that one was left in the oven ( even if it was now off and cooling down, but still hot in there ) too long while he was lacing up the first skate and this is the result of an over baked skated and pulling way too hard on the laces when this second one came out of the oven last. For reference, I took some advice on here and baked my 100K Pro CCM's at home. Did it a couple times spread out over a few days at 180 or so in my oven for 4.5 minutes. Pulled on the laces in an outward direction ( not upward ) at maybe 50% my normal tightness and sat on the couch for 15 min to let them cool ( I did not walk in them at all ). I've now had my skates for over 3 months, skating twice a week as a decent men's league skater at 6'4 230 lbs and my eyelets look all but perfect. I know some guys can really put a beating on their skates depending on their skating style, size and other issues like you mentioned, but i don't think we've seen anybody come on here and have an issue like this with the new ccm skates and their one piece design.

Read my post on pronation, do the ankle straighten drill on and off ice. Learn to balance properly over the skate blade by dropping eyelets over time. Straighten up your foot and a lot of those niggly fit issues begin to disappear. And if you do want to punch / stretch your boots yourself I have posted in a previous DIY punching at home thread how to do it and the tools I have used.

If this is the case, it's not "user error". It's UX. CCM launches a product, prints out some general baking guidelines, store (roughly) follows them. This is the end result. What folks don't understand is, most end users of these products are just young kids going in willy-nilly to a store and walking out with whatever they think looks cool. They're not online researching gear or going to gear mod forums etc. They're not up-to-date on the latest uses of Saran Wrap bleeding edge baking technology.

Probably True just grabbed the closest Brannock and stuck their branding sticker on it. UX is everything, as the saying goes.

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