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Haha I love when they shoot right into my glove and I get the "WOW WHAT A SAVE" from the guys on the ice. :)On that note, nothing is sweeter than just starting to play goalie and having the guys I play pickup with telling me they don't even bother trying to go glove hand because it's a wasted shot. Makes up for my lack of ability to stop pucks everywhere else I guess :P

I don't think most 2015 product has been announced yet. I'm itching to talk about (and buy) the Bauer goalie gear!!

Always seems like the hard ones are easy to stop and the easy ones are hard to stop!

One of the refs in my league puts that stuff on his plastic toe caps to keep them shiny

This.

Is that the toe coating SVH put on, or is that something you did yourself?

Was looking for this years catalogs and saw your question. The reactor goalie boot is the same as the nexus player boot, as far as I can tell (I've worn both and it feels identical to me).

Get them baked.

Douchebags on an 8-1 team cherry picking with the score 7-3 with a minute left. Oh, and I'm pretty sure that 7th goal was the Stanley Cup winner based on their celebration.

I JUST saw the "CR" on the Hawks helmets about 2 minutes ago and wondered what it was. Thanks.

Bump! So much good stuff left :)

Ah that's cool, thanks!

What's that?

Heh yeah I guess if I have no mask or uppers it changes things a bit for them ;) And I agree with wearing pads to practice it, but even without them it was awkward enough just making passes with my gloves on. I'll do a bit more practice with that and then add in the pads.

Looks fine to me.

Definitely, but the first time with just my goal skates and gloves/stick was plenty. Got fairly comfortable making passes. Will add pads at some point. Problem is you show up to a stick time in goalie gear and everyone expects you to get in the net... which isn't what I'm there for. Either way I probably shouldn't have used my glove :) Though I'd think using my stick in that situation would have been awkward since I was already down in the butterfly. At the very least my stick with my leg pad backing that up would have probably been ideal. The latter, I just mean extending a leg pad to make a save. As far as the falling off, it's not much of an issue now that I've tightened the elastic knee straps. It barely happened the last two times I've been on the ice.

I couldn't even get the boot on before I baked it. I don't know why anyone would even try. The tongues are definitely moldable.

Yeah I've heard a lot of people say that too in the last 844 pages. Seems to be irrelevant for these skates. I'd guess because they wrap the foot so well.

I meant the vintage model.

Well hopefully they come out with an intermediate version at some point!

Still too much since I'd need to cut it down. Doesn't matter anyway :)

Won my first ever game playing goal 4-1! Details in my thread: http://modsquadhockey.com/forums/index.php/topic/66097-starting-in-goal-as-an-adult/?p=1016586

AWW yiss! First game finished. All that after getting up this morning at what equates to 2am PT, flying home from Winterfest, getting a 1.5 hr nap, and then playing. We won 4-1 (and the 1 goal against was scored with their guy sitting on top of me - apparently it was my own D-man that caused that, so the goal stood). My team played easily the best I've ever seen them. Really defensive and just picked their spots, instead of trying to force everything. Fantastic backchecks too. I'm sure trying to insulate their rookie goalie had something to do with their play, too ;) Everything felt great. I didn't slip off my stacks at all (tightened the velcro strap behind my knee and that seems to have helped greatly). My only real blooper was coming out and trying to play the puck. That almost ended badly. I'm going to hit a stick time with just my goalie stick and gloves and pass a puck around with a teammate to see if I can get a bit better at that. Couple nice glove saves, kicked the pad out a couple times, and I had one wrister that hit the crossbar behind me. Guy on the other team I know from pickup said "I bet you're kissing your posts!" and I'm like "nah, if it was lower I would have just caught it" ;) haha Man what a great time. I could seriously see myself switching to goal full time!

Best fitting glove I've ever worn. The EK15 is almost the same but a bit beefier.

Nice, love the Nexons!!