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That was one of the most noticeable things when I upgraded my C/A: the rib coverage. My Reactor 4000 had pretty much nothing. Took some time to get used to actually having padding there. Very nice for squeezing shots though.

Whole hell of a lot better than my butterfly. Mine is a good 6-8" gap. Yours would be closed completely if you had more curve in your pads but Warrior tends to be pretty straight. My new pads on order are an "aggressive" curve to make up for my crap narrow butterfly. Have you looked at Maria Mountain's 14 day butterfly flare challenge? I'd bet if you did that you'd have that closed in just a couple weeks :D

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I'm sorta not... my skate is against the post not my toe, and there's no post lean. But still I see what you're talking about. I agree I can get burned by it if I'm not careful. Especially on the right side (I can slide left to right with a good push, but I can't seem to push the other way). Looked at your links. The overlap technique looks like a decent enough idea, but I'm concerned by how far out of position you'll be if you get a pass across. Sure you'll be standing already for a big push, but for somebody like me who has crap footwork it's probably not the best way to go. I dunno, I'm sure I'll try it but I'm not sure I like it better than RVH (which again, I'm not sure I'm actually able to do correctly as it is.) Thanks for the comments and suggestions, though!

We decided we were going to have a team "token" to give away to the top performer of the game every week. I thought of a championship belt and this is the result. It's cheesy but pretty damn awesome if you ask me.

It's more than just there, that was just the most noticeable part. I shouldn't have said anything because it's being blown way out of proportion.

Nothing odd about my foot at all. The mako fit really well. The VH was just better. You guys are over thinking my comments.

More above the toes, but just in general for the whole skate. It's not a problem for me so much as just a comment noting that I thought the Mako was amazing fitting until I tried the VH, which was just that much better. That's all I'm saying. Both of them are infinitely better for me than anything else I've ever tried on.

Hah well the guy blocked a pretty hard shot and flung it down the ice, so I knew it was going to be icing. Wouldn't normally sit there like that :) The butterfly will get better over time, I just have to make sure I keep my stick down in the mean time. I also want to mention this time I exported it as H.264. Previously I had been exporting as "ProRes". I basically dropped the file size by 90% with H.264 with no decline in quality. Instead of 10GB, the file was like 850MB. My pickup videos (that are usually about 10 minutes) were well over 20GB each.

Nope. Just the VH fits that much closer. Okay then. We will have to agree to disagree, then.

Custom will always be better :) I mean lots of room in the toe box. Nothing at all to do with the cuff of the boot.

I was thinking of buying up a pair of Mako II just in case, but honestly my Makos almost feel kind of floppy on my feet after being in VH goal skates. I love my Makos and they have served me well but I think I'd be buying a pair of VH if I ever planned to skate out with any frequency again.

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M8, no question.

Last Sunday's game. Ended up winning 6-3. Let in a goal only 30 seconds into the game. There was no excuse, I wasn't screened. Just went 5-hole because of my crap butterfly. Second goal I didn't spot the guy in front of the net. I actually almost gloved the shot! Last goal was a fluke. Stopped it, it went straight up and over my shoulder. Obviously my rebound control should have been better. Otherwise, pretty happy with the result and my play. I also created a new title animation. I really like it :)

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I'd be leaving then. There's no way to tell if they fit without baking them.

You tried to put them on before baking? I definitely couldn't get my feet in mine before baking, nor is there any reason to since the skates are specifically designed to be baked.

Haha wow. Talk about Frankenstein's monster!

Brutal. Time off sucks. I'm kind of glad we didn't have holiday time off, even if we did have to win a game with 5 skaters.

2016 is off to a really crappy start :(

That's pretty awesome of you man. Can't wait to get mine!

I'd go M7, personally.

Yea it was pretty ridiculous at times. They're such a chippy team. I was actually looking at the league standings the other day. We have less than half the overall penalty minutes of the next lowest team.

No issue here.