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Howdy, Wow, crazy! What happened with Vegas? This thing is all over the map. It wasn't that long ago that it seemed unlikely that they'd have a hub in Canada at all! Mark

Howdy, That's kinda weird, isn't it? How are they able to do direct to consumer without infringing that same patent? Mark

Howdy, Can't be this, as there wasn't a penalty called. I bet Chris has it. Thanks! Mark

Howdy, What rule requires that? I can't find anything like that with a bit of searching. Mark

Howdy, I'm curious to know what rule they were blowing the whistle on. Mark

Howdy, Is there a way to check on the status of an order via Marsblade's site or whatever? I pre-ordered the 01+boot package back on May 1st. I was just curious if there was a way to get an update as to expected ship date. IIRC when I ordered it said July but ?? Mark

Howdy, 5 (?) days later and now PA #'s are going back up too, along with Ohio. We'd been considering going to an adult skills class as a way to start back, since there wouldn't be any "sitting next to someone on the bench breathing hard" time and no on ice battles. But we're backing off from that now. Unless this is just a blip, I think the rise in cases is going to mean that we skip July and re-evaluate in August. There's an outdoor asphalt rink about 30 minutes away that I don't think I've ever seen anyone on. I think maybe I'll get a little more serious about it and start going down there for some outdoor time. The "local" outdoor sport court rink is still closed to everything, unfortunately. Mark

Howdy, I can cat get current case counts by county easy enough. Its harder to get decent trend lines by county. Mark

Howdy, Things started back up here a week or two ago. My wife and I have both decided to wait. Originally that was going to be to wait until July to see what cases seemed to do. We're waffling a bit on that now, as cases in Ohio as a whole are back trending up, though PA (where we mostly play) are still trending down. One of the frustrating things is that its hard to get trend information at a more localized level, so I have no real idea what's happening in the Pittsburgh/Youngstown area specifically. Indoor hockey would be our primary 'exposure channel' or whatever you call it, at least until (if) school starts for our son, or marching band (if it happens). Right at this moment, I'm tempted to wait to play until one or both of those open back up as well since if our family is going to be exposed more anyway, I might as well be playing hockey. I'll freely admit that that isn't necessarily the most intellectually sound argument though. 🙂 Just based on Facebook, it seems like most folks we played with prior to all this are going back now. We're a little older then them on average and pretty squarely in the younger end of the "danger zone" or whatever you want to call it. One thing that helps me is that I've started autocrossing again (https://www.scca.com/pages/what-is-autocross). This was a pretty serious hobby for me for a LONG time, which I backed away from when I started playing hockey around 4 years ago. Its been fun to get back more involved with it and the risk levels from Covid are a LOT lower, just due to the nature of the sport. Mark

Howdy, I expect that like with cloth masks, a rule like that is about "don't spray your virus as far" vs. "stop you from breathing in the virus". Mark

Howdy, I didn't think they had actual release dates yet on their mass produced skates... I'll for sure be interested in real details when they're available. This looks to be yet another teaser with no actual information. Mark

Howdy, It seems pretty likely that closing off those areas is going to result in fog city... But if I'm wrong, I'll buy a setup for sure. Mark

Howdy, This is probably a dumb question, but having never held one of these rubber stone things in my hands I'm curious how the hell it can remove a burr and not scratch anything. I'm picturing something with abrasive embedded in a rubber-y material. Is that not what it is? Is there some technique people are using to not have that scratch stuff? Mark

Howdy, Boy it would be pretty craptactular if you were an NHL player who doesn't get picked up next season or the season after that, and because of extending the escrow payback time, you actually had to pay back money in the years following when you stopped playing... I bet there are going to be some players that get financially pinched by this whole deal, just like some owners. Mark

Howdy, I look down constantly. However, I also really suck at hockey. 🙂 Friends that have them say that they can use peripheral vision to reinforce good habits though. Mark

Howdy, One of my local rinks opened up at midnight last night. Outside of limiting # of skaters (10 per side), it seems like everything is the same as it was. They're encouraging less time in locker rooms (memos about how folks should get dressed at home, but that seems more focused on kids). Certainly not playing with masks. I've not been there yet and I'm not comfortable with it yet. I'm going to give it the rest of June and see what happens in terms of cases, etc. Mark

Howdy, https://superdeker.com/products/superdeker Pretty fun. And more importantly, I think its actually helping my hands a bit. Mark

Howdy, Any early world via rink schedules or managers or anything on if all the Vegas ice time will dry up a bit because there are 12 NHL teams there practicing / playing? Mark

Howdy, I bought a SuperDeker and have been sporadically using that. I already had a shooting tarp and tiles, so I tried to use that a little more. I was doing pretty good about getting out there fairly regularly (every other day) for a while, but then my back started bothering me (unrelated) and I stopped. Back is now fine, but I haven't gotten back into the habit... 🙂 I need to fix that! Hockey stuff around here (Pittsburgh, PA) is starting to open back up. I'm going to give it until July I think just to let any dust settle, then get back to it if things still are looking good. Mark

Howdy, I'll be totally happy with this format if one of two things happen: 1) Pens win the cup. 2) Pens get the 1st pick. 🙂 Mark

Howdy, I expect that the covid playoff games are going to be like any other hockey broadcast in the recent past. Unfortunately, other than over the air broadcast in your particular area, if you want to legally watch hockey "in market" the only way to do that is to pay for cable/the right channels or to go to the game / someplace else that pays for such. It would be great if there was a way to legally watch in market games streamed over the internet. But that's not a thing, yet. Mark

Howdy, It'll be interesting to see how they do broadcasting stuff. Based on nothing but stuff pulled out of my butt, I would expect that regional networks would show the play in and round robin rounds, plus the first round after that, with some games also broadcast by nbc (likely on nbc sports but ???) w/blackouts. Then 2nd round on would be nbc only split between nbc and nbc sports. Mark

Howdy, Well, fuck. The local outdoor dek/roller hockey rink was supposed to open tomorrow. They just extended their closure through August. There goes my plan to go up and get some inline / whatever practicing in for most of the summer. I was attracted to it because it doesn't seem to get much use, plus being outside its got good airflow, etc. so shouldn't have been as bad as an indoor ice rink. Guess its going to be inlines in the driveway with a green biscuit only. Mark

Howdy, I wear my girdle as a wrap (Tacks 7092), so I don't keep the shell attached. I do exactly what you describe... Put on the girdle, then pull up the shell and cinch up the belt. Its not attached to the girdle at all. Haven't been pantsed on the ice yet. 🙂 Mark

Howdy, Anyone got any new info about the True retail / non-custom skates? That was a thing, right? Mark