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Honestly... the easiest way to cover up the backhand is just to stick a piece of sticky side Velcro to a piece of fabric and shove it in there. True used to do that with all of their gloves with removable palms and it works pretty well and it is considerably easier than sewing on the inside of the glove.

I would hesitate before saying they are an actual one piece boot. He was in his Jetspeed painted as FT4 Pros before. The toe cap and the cut at the top of the skate look more like his Jetspeed skates than the AS-V Pro skates. But there wasn't a good enough shot of the bottom of the boot to see yet. https://www.gettyimages.ca/detail/news-photo/edmonton-oilers-center-connor-mcdavid-skates-with-the-puck-news-photo/1238107695 Toe looks close to the toe below. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0020/1585/4658/files/CCM-Jetspeed-Skates-349.jpg?5920575855097844826 Here are the posts talking about the FT4 Pro paint and the last time he wore a one piece boot in a game.

It is complicated and often depends on the glove. Usually they do detail the specific model in the name but there are a few that aren't (HGTK is another). But then they identified the next one which was HGST (SuperTacks). @marka I think you have me on Facebook, or at least you are on the MSH Discord. So if you are looking at a specific glove or have questions hit me up on those and I'll help out as I can.

Which pro stocks don't? From my experience the NHL ones are plastic and the NCAA are retail spec.

2S Pro retail protection is okay but not top notch anymore since they removed the plastic inserts and Poron backhand padding. There is a reason the NHL gloves still have the plastic inserts.

The only base layer I have seen in stores with the grip nubs to be either falling off from the clothes or have a matte finish which offered 0 grip. The consistency in these was all over the place.

I am 90% sure you tried on 1 of 2 CCM pro stocks that fit true to size retail there. The other pair I found was HG55, but the HG50 I have fit 1/2" larger...

I can't tell if you are serious or not... but yes they are normal carbon sticks painted to look like wood. These were the ones that gave the original idea: https://www.hockeyworld.com/Nike-Bauer-Vapor-XXX-Lite-WOODY-Composite-Stick-Senior

I have fixed 4 people I know personally for sizing issues with the TF skates outside of a store environment since they released... not to mention all of the people online. Would've been a nice thing for True to acknowledge the sizing discrepancies to ensure people are actually in the correct size skate compared to skates they are used too.

Same sticks just painted

Have you seen this?

That is absolutely not the experience of what I saw in stores I've worked in or through talking to people playing hockey. It hasn't become a popular thing with skates until stores realized they could add it as an extra charge of pure margin to a skate that they started pushing people into lower end skates and making up the difference in price with insoles and profiles. I can say out of all of my adult teams, probably 5 out of 50 players know what a profile is and have had one done.

They are using the stock outsole.

Kane was on the previous videos:

This is where this sizing is misleading. The 14s I have fit longer in the fingers than 14s in Jetspeed, SuperTacks, Supreme, Vapor, QRE, Code V, HPR2. They fit comparably to a 14" Pro Stock UltraTacks which fit 1/2 size bigger than their retail counter parts.

That is fair, I would say majority of people won't see those other influencers as businesses though.

So is all of the major hockey influencer accounts but NHLPA doesn't go after them. Every single account that uses an NHLPHA member's likeness should be targeted in the same manner, but it isn't. Those accounts use the likeness of the members to grow themselves and sell merch or ad spots, this account probably got a member or a member's sponsor pissed off so they are going after them.

Aren't the Alpha LX made to fit the Vapor hole in the Warrior glove lineup?

In what way?

Sticks are solid and the options are REALLY good. There is a review on YouTube that goes into it more that I can't link here. With that said, I don't think they are as good as the newest top end sticks though, just slightly behind Bauer and CCM. For me they compared to the Jetspeed stick and not the FT3 Pro, and 2N Pro and not the Geo.

That doesn't explain why my coppers rusted...

I have the same experience with my custom True player skates but somehow not my original version custom True goalie skates (which have way more use). After about 6 months of twice a week use my custom True player skates had 3 rivets loosen up to the point they needed to be replaced and 2 coppers needed to be replaced. I air my gear out religiously and remove the insoles immediately after every skate, I have never had a rivet ever rust until the True skates. I figured it was because of the plastic on the midsole but if it is happening on the TF9 as well... not sure what to say.

Thank you for the response!

Some massive "shims" on these Islanders players. @oldtrainerguy28 any idea about these? I thought you have been working with players with something like this.

Honestly... it isn't THAT farfetched. The Australian hockey league were the first players to be using a bunch of unreleased gear a few years back.