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I personally like the Shift holders but if you are wanting to use any aftermarket steel like Flare, BladeTech, or others then you'll have to go with the XS holders.

I am going to go back to the association with terms and a contract. Ideally, I would like to secure 2-3 years of the team sales and I will work out a payment structure for them. They can pay half of the order up front and the remaining amount over the remainder of the season. I think this is reasonable and flexible.

I wanted to see if this was uncommon before telling them no as the association seems to think this is not an abnormal ask...

Yeah. I am thinking they are crazy.

A local hockey association wants us to handle all of the team orders (track suits, jackets, gloves, etc) and then have our store handle the embroidery, distribution, and collection of money from the parents. Here is where it gets weird.... The association does not want to place and pay for the order, they are looking for our store to place the order and take on that custom team inventory without any payment from the association. We would then get that money back from selling the items to the players without any financial guarantee from the association. I have never heard of any store or association doing business in this manner. I explained to them this is illogical and they seem to think this is actually normal business...?!

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Very whippy. Go +10 if you get a QRE SL. They are soft like baby poop.

I have a lengthy list but these are ones at the top: First generation one-piece Super Tacks skates. I wanted to love them but they were too stiff and had terrible forward flexion. I felt like I was wearing ski boots. TRUE XC9 Gloves with the replaceable palm. The idea made sense but the implementation was horrible. Some of the worst gloves ever made. CCM FL500 helmet. My God, what a mess. I wanted something that would provide great protection but that thing was like wearing an insulated bowling ball on your head. So hot, heavy and uncomfortable. Super Tacks Gen I stick. Awesome stick but they had way too many issues with the blade durability. I never had one that lasted more than a few games.

Eichel says he is working to keep his shots low. Says Kane and others claim they score more goals when they shoot low.

They do show the stiffness index in the previous year's CCM catalogs. As for comparing CCM vs other brands in a stiffness index, I don't think they CCM shares the information on how they test their stiffness ratings.

The shallower the hollow the less you need to have them sharpened as the steel will hold its edge longer as there is more material. What did you change your profile from?

Meh. They make me sick. I am glad that the customs will allow for people to select a color for the skate.

Disagree. These are pretty ugly:

The Graf Supra 707 was my jam as a kid.

This is common. At one time I used to measure the blade alignment for every skate we sold. Over time though the workload became too great and I now only do this with high end skate sales. I would say on 25% or more the skate blade alignment is not within an acceptable spec. Sometimes I remount the holders myself if the tolerances aren't terrible but if they are way outside of spec I usually send them back to the manufacturer and get the customer a replacement. I would say less than 3% of skates are so far out of spec that I cannot repair it.

Fold some toilet paper into squares and apply it to the areas where he is getting pain, you can also use cotton balls too. Wrap his foot with tape to hold the toilet paper/cotton balls in place. Bake the skate and while its warm have him put it on. Instead of normally sitting down while they cool have him stand up in a hockey stance to widen his forefoot. That should fix his issues.

Many of the rinks are taking the ice down to the sand and then repairing things, doing new lines, and building it back up. I know both Sno-King rinks in WA are doing such.

For the people of Scottsdale, Arizona. I heard today that many of the rinks are now planning to stay closed until end of April. I was really hoping for the estimated reopening date of April 6th but it seems that isn't going to happen. In Seattle, WA the rinks in Renton and Kirkland are hoping to be reopened by mid-April. I don't have any updates for Seattle and Everett.

I sent them an email expressing interest in purchasing the facility myself and they said the LA Kings will be buying the facility, the deal is apparently already underway.

You can start to learn to training with no laces by slowly decreasing the stability the laces provide. For example, drop the eyelet, lace, then after a few weeks drop the next eyelet, continue to repeat this as you adjust. The other option is skipping eyelets when lacing up starting after the 3rd eyelet from the bottom. You can at first skip one eyelet, then later skip another, continue to repeat this as you adjust. Over time you will build muscle memory and strength in areas of your ankle/foot you are currently not using due to the added stability the laces + boot provide.

This wouldn't happen with a TRUE skate. The plastic toe cap on a TRUE skate is separate from the boots carbon frame. Basically, you have two section for impact displacement.

That's like 90% of the current high level players. They find what they like and only change if there is absolutely no other option. I think some of the younger players are open to changing gear more often. I think it's also because gear is easier to break in now than in the past.

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Same. I use 84" and which is just barely enough for me to lace them with almost nothing left over.

People like you drive me crazy when you bring in your skates for rivet replacements and such. I cut your laces off since I don't have time to screw around with untying your dumb knots.