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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.

This is where True really needs to improve. They have said time and time again that their skates don't need it because the top is soft as is... but the edges themselves basically being seams makes them really uncomfortable. Rounding that off with a padded and softer material is such an easy change that would be a very welcome addition.

The problem is if the CAT9 that these people saw are just the retail model like the TF9 than those changes haven't necessarily made it to the custom skates I have seen yet.

Honestly, how much the shot-blocker affects the glove movement is different for each model. I had 0 issues on my SuperTacks but my HG55 were RIGID.

I would say that Barber isn't one of the normal retail orders, so he would get stuff earlier than other people would. I would guess to push it a few months from when his appeared.

True releases their skates in yearly intervals. Last year was the player boot, this year is the goalie boot. Next year will be the boot shown there. I don't know the actual date but I would look at when the first versions of the newest player boots started to show up online and take a guess off of that.