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LOL yea pretty much.

Hahaha this guy? I laughed so hard when the Leafs twitter account posted it.

Good 1st period!

Hah, you're probably right (though I'd rather order from IW whenever I can), but if they get me fitted I might as well get them there. The last player skates I had that I liked before I went to the Makos were RBK, so I imagine that would be the place to start. But definitely going to try everything.

Kings vs Hawks via my Raspberry Pi... with Bob Cole commentating. Angry Orchard in my hand. Doesn't get too much better :)

I friggin loved my 11" MBA when I was traveling a lot! Switched to 13" RMBP though. Really hoping the rumors of a 12" RMBA are accurate, I'll buy one the day its announced!

Wow, thank you all for such awesome advice! I think I'm definitely going to start with what Gummer suggested, and get a pair of skates and just see how that goes. We have GoalieMonkey close by here, so I'm going to make a trip up there sometime soon. I don't want to go crazy on skates, something in the 250-300 range I'm sure will do just fine. You can't even imagine how often I'd click on the site from my browser start page and say out loud "oh, right... crap" during that time! It was a huge void for all of us! :)

I just happened to already have mine laying around :)

Supposedly some have had luck using a heat gun and rolling the top edge of the padding outward, but I haven't had any luck there. I actually just cut the bottom out of one of these, basically straight across about 2 inches down from the top:

Thanks for the heads up - I too went from a CCM V10 to a Re-Akt.

So I've been thinking about trying goal, mostly because I don't see myself as ever becoming an especially great skater/shooter/stickhandler. Also I played goal as a kid (until I quit at age 8). I was a catcher in baseball and actually get a bit of a thrill at the idea of an object flying towards me at ridiculous speeds :) So my question is: where do I even start? Obviously I'm not going to just one day buy some pads and just start playing goal for a league team, but on the other hand as an adult there is almost zero opportunity for practice. Pickup is as much practice as you can get around here. So where do I start? Buy some pads and work on basic movements at home? Just buy a glove and work it in when I'm watching TV so it's good to go eventually? Buy skates and get used to how they fit (do goalie skates feel all that different when just skating around?) I really don't want to go all out and just buy an entire set of pads, C/A, skates, everything else right away without having a plan in place. Any advice is appreciated :)

That's one reason I went with the Mako shins, I was a huge fan of how flexible the knee/shin joint was. I don't think I could go back to a solid joint now!

testing :)

In a private box for tonight's kings/coyotes game. Awesome!!

it's not always that easy if you don't know what your potential actually is I would look into anything that sells for Power Skating or Dynamic Skating. Hell, the getting ice time can be the hardest part.

Okay, so I guess I'll sign up for group B then since it says 11-Adult.

I'm signing up for Laura Stamm but not sure what group to go in. They say adults should go in group B but most little kids skate better than me...

Right, and I'm not sure I'm willing to buy a pair of gloves that I don't like the fit of just to see if baking them will help ;)

I just meant I'm not sure if softening the materials would help them become comfortable, or whether it's just a fundamental design change that causes them to be uncomfortable to me. No way to know without trying it.

Yea it does look like he's improved the stitching in some areas of high wear, among various other improvements. VH really seems like a work in progress to me (especially at first where some of the outer appearance changed completely). Personally I'm happy he's always making adjustments and improvements.

I wonder if that would help the new Supreme glove fit at all. I was a big fan of the Supremes until the 2013 model came out. They felt really uncomfortable in the knuckle area. Gorgeous gloves though. I bought a pair of black and gold gloves for SummerJam last year that I didn't get to use :(

I noticed a pretty significant nick on the side of my tendon guard after my game yesterday. Really makes you wonder....

Holy moley! Tons of stuff added!

A few reasons. I have two different sized feet and the Makos were kind of a last resort before going custom. I also have a bit of issue with my right big toe. If VH had been around when I got the Makos I'd have gotten them instead. I also had the mako bumps issue and while I think it's probably gone away, I still use the neoprene sleeve on my ankle just in case. I also still have some foot pain in them. Nowhere near as bad as in any other skate I've ever worn, but it still requires my lacing to be just right or else I'm skating in pain for most of the game (it seems to go away some time during the 2nd period). The mako has done me well, I'm quite happy with them overall... so that brings up my last reason: simply because I want them. :P

First game of a best-of-3 championship finals. I gloved a high pass at our own blue line, dropped it down, and skated towards their end. 1-on-2, I managed to split the D-men, go right, and then cut in towards the net managing to get around the right side D-man who had come back. Cut in front of the net and backhanded the puck into the net, while falling. Oh my god. Would have been a highlight reel goal in the NHL, and coming from a guy who can barely skate it was huge. I wish I hadn't been so completely exhausted after it went in so I could enjoy it, I could barely skate back to the bench. That goal will never ever happen again for me. I'm still a bit in shock. That was the 3rd goal of our 7-1 win. Game 2 next weekend :)