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Much better night last night. Only a couple goals. Unfortunately two of them were glove side and easy saves. Oh well, it's only pickup. Sorry about the camera angle... damn it

Whoa, thunder and lightning! I haven't seen that in years!

Just got my shipping notice... I'm surprised how quickly they'll get here!

Thanks. I was debating silver vs white and ended up choosing white just because I didn't have any idea what the silver would look like.

Is that the "silver" colour option?

I have no idea, I don't think they wear nametags do they? I really just wanted to confirm sizing and try the glove. Unfortunately they didn't have any of the gloves in stock, but more than anything it was the cuff I wanted to try, which is the same on the subzero pro.

Was just at goalie monkey. Tried on the gnetik pro 2 pads... Amazing. I know what I'll be getting! We also determined that 33+1 is actually too small for me. He said a 33.5 would actually be perfect as the 34 is slightly too big but at least my knee pads didn't hang over the end like they do on the 33. The knee pads that come with the Brian's are actually surprisingly good. Held in place quite well, I was shocked. I'm going to order the glove right away, and the rest of the set after I've saved up some cash.

Man I wish that was even an option for me.

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I will definitely try to practice some of my movements in the crease during the pickups, but don't want to at this point in games... I feel like I really need to try to keep my focus. I do want to reiterate the fact that USUALLY the D in these pickup sessions isn't complete crap like it has mostly been the last month or so. They call it pickup, but its definitely not a drop-in by any means. This is an invite-only thing where most of these guys have been playing together forever, in some cases literally decades. I just don't want the "well, don't expect D in pickup" because for this its usually pretty decent. Or at least it was. Like I sad the last month has been brutal. Anyway, on to my league game tonight. Lost 4-1 (our 1 goal came with 5 seconds left). - First goal was a really good breakaway deke to the backhand and put it up over my pad... great goal, no complaints there. - Second goal was a crap shot that squeaked in between my glove hand and my body. Should have had it for sure. - Third... I'm not sure exactly what happened. It was a rebound that bounced around and hit a couple things before somebody banged it in. - Fourth goal was a breakaway that I absolutely should have stopped. Guy wristed one to my glove side from the hash marks. It was literally in the best place it could have possibly been for me, and I just missed it. Guy with the white gloves decided to chirp me after it to the point where the ref had to tell him to get lost, then came over to me and asked if I knew the guy. I did not. What an asshole. The refs told me to take down my gopro after warmup, unfortunately, so I was unable to record the game. They said I can have it on the outside of the glass but not the inside. Since this is a rookie league (not even considered D6) I'm going to ask the league director for an exemption since the entire point of this league is for learning. Not sure if he can help me, but its worth asking. This was actually the first week we had refs, previously it had just been the coaches. I'm disappointed that I let my team down. They played really well in front of me for the most part (aside from the lack of scoring). The momentum was ours for most of the game. And the two times my D faltered, I wasn't able to bail them out. That's the part that stings. On the other hand, I played pretty well for the most part. Their first goal didn't come until midway through the 2nd period. My first period was fantastic. Oh well, there's always next week. On another note, my Passau knee pads feel amazing now that I got them adjusted the way I like. On tuesday they kept catching on my pads, but tonight I got them adjusted better and wore socks over them (with the bottom half of the sock cut off so it wasn't covering my calves). Felt good, and actually felt taller in the butterfly with less strain on my ankles. Very glad I didn't give up on them after one bad attempt at wearing them.

I wish so badly that I had time to go to open skates and stuff. I haven't been on the ice for anything other than games or pickups in close to a year.

Nope, no real time for either.

When am I ever going to practice them?

A couple things.... I don't know how to do butterfly slides or t-pushes so those wouldn't have happened even if I had got up on the right foot :)

Yea, that's really what I was getting upset about. How many stops do I have to make with my D-men standing there watching? The other goalie barely moves during these sessions.

What a crappy pickup session. Oh well. There's always next week.

Scored these on eBay. Can't wait to try them!

What do you call a proper warm up? Firing slapshots from the blueline is all I really want TBH for most of warmup. I'm mostly concerned with feeling the puck on my pads, and getting a read on the pucks in the air. In fact for our pickups I often grab my water and kneel and stretch a bit on the goal line about 10' from the net and just watch guys shoot into it, tracking the puck from their stick into the net. Getting my head around the timing is the most important part for me, besides the stretch of course. No interest in having guys deke me in warmup.

It's funny, I'm at a point now where I'm telling the OTHER goalie "great save!" or "man, nice glove..." when he comes up with a big stop. I also understand a bit better what its like for our goalie as well. I stopped a slapshot with my stick last night about 6' from the net, and I just hear from behind me "DAMN IT JONES!" and I'm like oh crap, sorry man... A few years ago I would have been oblivious to why he'd be upset about me sticking my stick out to stop a shot...

After 26 hours, I'm finally home.

I would expect the answer to be yes to both questions. Just email them, they respond pretty quickly

Nope, never saw a need. Makos have flex where you need it and stiffness where you want it.

Yup, agreed.

I couldn't even get them on my feet until they were baked. Even unlaced completely, I still couldn't.

All of the tech labs I built for the students in my class in Brazil failed spectacularly, and looks like I'm going to be taking a lot of shit for it.

Those pants are amazing.