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Got it, that's all I was wondering :) Maybe I'll buy one for my birthday in April :)

Definitely not going to read 101 pages here, but I just read the last 5 or so. This x0-1 machine is really tempting. I just watched the video on Vimeo: Honestly, it looks like something that could be picked up pretty quickly. One quick question though... what do you do if you need to crossgrind for whatever reason?

On that note, I'm happy they're gone. They made some horrible, HORRIBLE "food". I'm no health nut, but even I wouldn't eat that crap. I still hate unions, though. Safety and stuff, sure. But "we want a raise" striking drives me absolutely friggin bananas. Especially when the faculty does it only weeks before you're set to graduate... *cough* ontario colleges *cough* On another note... http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourcommunity/2012/05/is-canadas-new-20-bill-too-pornographic.html Seriously? ... SERIOUSLY?!?? GFY. Here's a good thread on the subject: http://www.dayonepatch.com/index.php?/topic/53481-new-20-bill-contains-911-images-and-naked-women/

I really hate unions sometimes.

^ My wife would have me dead.

Nothing special, but... New pants for my new team (that wears Ottawa Red). Pro tip: I discovered a few weeks ago that the Youth XL suspenders have a lot less stretch to them, and are almost as long as adult suspenders. The adult ones I'd been wearing, I had the buckles up past my shoulders (almost on to my back) to get them short enough. These are MUCH better! The only thing left to replace is my helmet. I wear a Re-Akt, so I'm not sure I'm willing to drop the cash for a new one just yet.

http://www.icewarehouse.com/descpage.html?pcode=RSRT I use cloth tape to make the butt end and the ribs, and then use a single layer. It's super thin, super grippy, and sticks to itself.

Also avoiding tape and using tacki-mac or stretch tape instead (the latter being my new fave!). But there are a ton of other threads about this already :)

Haha wow, that's awful! :)

Still think the Nexus is the best looking skate on the market. Love that liner, too!

I'm in navy One60s now, and love them. New team is black and red so might as well upgrade to the special one80. Hoping the tailbone protection is a bit better. Anytime I'd climb over the boards and slide off the top (instead of clearing it in one jump), the tailbone pad would come up. Not sure if the One80s tailbone protection is plastic or not.

Looks like they're retail on the One80! I know what my next purchase will be :) I need black pants for my new team, so might as well get these :) Sorry to de-rail/be off-topic.

As for pro stock gear - I get it, if its better, like shoeshine boy mentioned, and if I'm going to use them. What I don't get is having a massive collection like what Too Old posted (no offense intended!). Though I realize some people like to collect for the sake of collecting, it's not a mindset I can identify with. To me, that's just more stuff to store away in boxes that I'll never touch. Totally different if signed, etc, though. To each his own :) On an unrelated note - are those black/white/red pants stock "special edition" totalone's? I've seen them in other colors before.

They pop up on ebay on occasion, but they're often like $250-300. No way in hell. Love those pants, though. Too bad I'm not on a team with those colours anymore :( Here's my new addition:

Nah, I just bought them. It's a beer league team. For that matter, I bought the jersey and socks myself too :P

Got my gear for my new team. Ottawa jersey, NJD socks (they said they don't like the curved lines on the OTT socks - can't say I blame em), and red/white/black Bauer One60 gloves. I also bought a black Eagle pant shell, but it's MASSIVE. Same size as the pants. So... I dunno. Will exchange em I guess. Also picked this up a few days ago, as discussed here . RBK Ai.5, 75 flex, Datsyuk pattern, grip.

Proud to say I haven't shopped at a Wal-Mart in 2.5 years :) Oh, and:

If only it wasn't orange. I'm surprised, being Mako, that it wasn't a whole lot of white instead.

Will there be only one model of this, or will there be varying levels like most other skate models? I think I'm going to have to give these a shot, for sure. As long as they aren't like my old Easton skates (that seemed to have razor blades in the toebox) :)

I'd wanted to try the MLX, but never got a chance to. With how heat-moldable the MLX and the Mako skates were/are, do you think they'd generally (but not always) work for most foot types?

Those are the kinds of games that bring teams together.

The interference was the first penalty, for when their guy ran into me after i played the puck. I guess I was more mad that they couldn't tell it was a dive, than anything. I've had guys push me a whole lot harder than that in front of the net before. It wasn't even a shove, it was a push (shove implies some level of force, a push is just me trying to lean forward on him so I could get out of the crease, putting my weight on him to move him). I was SHOCKED when he went flying. Amazing theatrics, really. Whatever, this is the venting spot, so I was venting. Horrible calls, but what can ya do? It's beer league.

Heh, one of my teammates laughed during beers after and said "now did it occur to you they called the second one because you bitched about the first one?" My response: "Well of course that's why, it's not like I did anything wrong on the play..." We all got a good laugh :) Sorry, I was just assuming they didn't get paid much based on their lack of a damn being given :P

Scored the tying goal to go 1-1. Watched as one of our guys made a beautiful play to go up 2-1. We held it until 5 mins left. Then the ref show began. Other teams D misplays the puck (bad pass if i recall) and it ends up just on their side of the blue line against the boards. I skate in to poke it deep, and their D-man skates up to poke it out. I end up getting there first, poke the puck past him, and he runs into me. Whatever, no big deal, incidental contact - both of us going full speed for a loose puck, a collision was no surprise. They end up managing to get it out, and then we knock it back in while im still in the zone. Off-side. Okay, broken play, whatever. So we're lining up, and ref yells "13 blue" and im like WTF? He calls me for INTERFERENCE. I have no idea what game he was watching... Seriously? Interference? From what, exactly, considering the collision happened AFTER i had already knocked the puck in. So whatever, I yell at the ref a bit and sit in the box. They attack on the PP, and one of their guys runs our goalie. Our goalie pushes him out of the crease, and the guy starts swinging shoving our goalie and ends up on top of him. Puck back to the point... shot... goal. Game tied 2-2. I get out of the box. Next shift on the ice, I go in and get set for a point shot in front of the net. I'm WAY deep in the crease and i can feel the goalie behind me. I try to move forward, but their D-man backs up into me so I have nowhere to go. I put both hands on his back and give him a shove (no cross-check motion at all what so ever). He goes FLYING. I mean seriously, he slid all the way to the faceoff dot. I've never seen a grown man fall so easily. Of course they call me... 2 for cross-check. And of course with 10 seconds left in the game, they score to make it 3-2. Our captain ended up with a 10 min misconduct for letting his feelings known. The weird part is that I was actually going to thank this ref for such a good job, up until that first penalty. One of our guys got drilled into the boards and I guess they didn't see it. We were yelling at him, reminding him it was a non-checking league. He skated over, said something funny and we all laughed. It totally diffused the situation. I don't know why more refs don't do similar. The other ref is just as worthless, he has a history of bad calls and talking crap to players. He's the one that told me to "learn to skate" when a guy tripped me last season. And after the 2-2 goal, with one of our guys complaining about the lack of calls, he skates to the bench and says "well i just called the goal they scored, hows that?" What a dick. We've had bad games from refs before, but I've never ever lost my shit like I did last night. Nor have I ever seen our captain get angry like that - ever. I realize these refs are just kids who dont give a damn and arent paid much, but have a little pride in what you do!

Just got these. Very excited!