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Better than I expected.

They have plenty of support, they're just not like ski boots.

Star Wars was okay.

An evolution of the skate, just without the mako name.

Yup.

Keep in mind the Mako has a different holder than all other Easton skates.

Nice! We got killed on Sunday. Lost 8-5. Any time your team scores five and loses, it's on you. Have to step it up for the next game.

Same.

M8?

I am really done with my job.

Playing while sick. Generally happy until I started getting tired by the end. Lots of 2-on-1, 3-on-1 and even some 3-on-0 I had to deal with, which meant a lot more goals against than usual. D was non-existent.

Welcome to the club! :)

I hear you on the rookie leagues, man. I decided to not join the one here this season because it's just too frustrating.

That's... Really weird.

Put it on the outside of the glass. You'll only get two periods but better than nothing!

Well here it is, my performance at Winterfest. Thankfully it wasn't quite the slaughter I was expecting, but that's primarily because the D was so solid. I wasn't THAT busy, as you can tell by the fact that the video is only 6 minutes long. Most of the goals I let in were actually mistakes that I would count as "bad" goals if it were a normal pickup session. The slapper from the point actually curved towards me. Seriously. It must have been spinning pretty fast for it to hook the way it did! Also, sorry about the camera angle. Had it pointed too far down. At the same time though, it's almost better since you can't see the far end of the rink in these videos anyway, it's good to see some of the action behind the net. Hope you guys like the intermission section I made for fun :) Enjoy!

I'm with you there. An hour a week where I shut the entire world out completely is something I look forward to all week long. It's therapy!

Yes. I had mine profiled to a slight negative for just that reason

9K girdle sold

1-piece goal skate. Holder can be custom to whatever hole pattern you like, apparently. These make a lot of sense, and are pretty innovative.

It's two separate and independent line items. The pad will be heavily pre-curved but stiff. You wouldn't want it heavily pre-curved and soft.

Typically you'd get outer breaks and a soft flex because you want the pad to curve, but I ordered the aggressive curve. I wouldn't want the pads to actually curve MORE. This is what the aggressive looks like:

Just gave Passau the green light to put these babies into production. Here's my specs: Pads - Size 33+2 - Bindingless top - Open Knee Cradle - Closed leg channel - Stiffness from top to bottom: stiff, medium, medium soft, soft - No outer breaks - Triangle outer rolls - Aggressive curve - Smart Strap clone - Smart Toe Strap clone - Maltese knee spacers pre-installed - Black weave on entire sliding surface and boot binding Glove - 60 degree - Double-T - Intermediate palm - Red skate lace - Pre-break in - Maltese palm Blocker - Stock All this, including custom modifications, comes out to less than the price of a top end pair of Brian's leg pads. Thank you crappy Canadian dollar!

Not a good game last night, and to make it worse my GoPro somehow got turned off almost immediately after I mounted it. I'm not sure if I accidentally hit the button or what. There was maybe 2 seconds of footage on it. We played against a team who had only 5 guys show up, so their defenseman (who also plays a division up) asked his other teammates if they wanted to sub. So they had five subs from D4. At one point I recall noticing that they had an entire 5-man line on the ice with all of them wearing their D4 team's jersey. Equally frustrating that the refs knew it (was talking to them after the game, they said they knew they were D4 guys but they have no authority over non-roster players, which is fine... it's certainly not THEIR fault). We lost 6-3, with the D4 subs scoring 5 of the 6 goals. One guy repeatedly shot at my head. He hit me in the mask three times over the course of the game. Frustration was starting to set in for sure... we had a guy tossed for verbal abuse of official and it got REALLY chippy, something you NEVER see from our team. It actually started to work since our guys were forechecking so hard and we scored to bring it to 4-3 at one point, but then I guess their D4 guys decided they'd turn it up a notch and scored two quick ones. At the start of the season they actually had a guy at the gate checking your number off the list to make sure you were a roster player. I don't know why they stopped doing that. Our league director is actually away dealing with a concussion from a car accident he was in, and it seems there are teams that are taking liberties because of it. We were lobbying for a rule change in the league I used to play in where if you had less than 6 skaters you could legally have ONE sub (so you'd have 1 forward and 1 d-man on the bench total), but the sub could only be coming from one division up and was limited to scoring 2 goals. The team was allowed to have more than one sub only with the permission of the other team BUT they'd forfeit the game. I think that's a pretty good rule, in my opinion. At least on a D5 team where the skill increase going up a division to D4 is so huge. Whatever, we'll throw a big asterisk next to that game. On the bright side, no back pain!

Heh, I'm getting tired of getting dinged in the face during warmups. Going to have to tell my teammates to stop trying to pick corners and just warm me up instead. They also tend to skip the "slapshots from the point" phase and go straight into the "trying to give your goalie a pulled groin" phase of the warmup.