BenBreeg

1- Wasn't meant as a slight, it's just an Instagram video, was just pointing out it's not an in depth thing, which as you pointed out, it wasn't meant to be 2- I had at one point saved all the studies I could find, now I don't know what I did with them 3- Yeah, didn't anticipate a Vapor being more back than Supreme at that time

In the prostrideskatinglabtoronto Instagram video Pavel Barber quickly goes through four profiles from the Elite Profile machine. Nothing that useful but one interesting statement jumped out. He started with the 9'/10' and said, "...this is the most popular one in the NHL." So, whether that's overall or just based on the dataset of their users, it's interesting. This is the only one that I have ever heard there is any data to show it was better than other profiles it was tested against. Was it @oldtrainerguy28 that was part of the study or cited it here before? I have also seen a presentation from ProSharp where I am pretty certain he said most of their NHL skaters were on Quad 0. That was definitely from a few years ago. Just a data point. I still believe profiling has a big effect on skating, and can be beneficial, but I 100% believe that there are too many, they aren't validated, and for the normal retail consumer, there is no way to match profiles to players based on "talking with the pro shop tech" or filling out a form. When parsing all this overinformation years ago, I decided to just put my son on 9/10. It was the only thing there was any data on. So I figured I would baseline there and at the very worst would have consistency. It has worked out well. I'm not chasing profiles and he has never had an issue. One skate change (strangely from Supreme TO Vapor, but that was the last year of youth sizes so not sure how those sizes actually are pitched) he immediately felt too far back. Small shim and we were done.

My Nexus 2900s have a little taper to the piece right over the knuckles where the fingers meet, but I never noticed until I looked. I always thought of them as direct descendants to Cooper BDP Pros, which do have all perfect rectangle rolls. Growing up those were my grail gloves. I had SC Pros which were a short cuff model, hence the name.

What is a deviant roll? I think of Bauers as a 4-roll, never really thought about any subcategories. i think I may get a pair of the CCMs, I really like them.

Besa, I am so sorry for your loss! He was a great part of our community. John

Don’t worry about seeing it flex. SLO mo’d my son last year and the stick was flexing plenty even though you couldn’t tell with the naked eye. If he is shooting well that’s all that matters, although that is a bit light for his size.

It might be a bold move because they lose the value prop of $:performance ratio but if they think it makes business sense more power to them. I also wonder if people here live in low income housing and wrap their kids in 1970s baseball gear to send them out on the ice.

Just curious, how can they have a custom skate program and not train the front line?

So the interface is the same, just different in how you engage/disengage the locking mechanism. Spring vs screw. And they lengthened the “inserts”. i have had the original on my skates for five years and just need to occasionally tighten it which has just become a habit.

Good to hear! Wishing you a fast recovery!

Different color lenses are used in shooting for different lighting and background conditions. But I am not sure there is much transference to hockey.

Steve Albini! Ugh!!! https://pitchfork.com/news/steve-albini-storied-producer-and-icon-of-the-rock-underground-dies-at-61/

Interesting, G Loomis is the real deal.

I first saw the sharpening level sign last month. I really had to try and figure out what the hell it was even trying to say… I still drive 30 minutes to get them hand sharpened by the figure skating guru in town. $9 and he just raised his price from $5 which it was for like 10 years. We are lucky to have him and Binnie although both are far from me and Binnie is drop off only so that makes two round trips.

TBH, buying footbeds separate seems like an upsell when you are in the store. If their position is the skate would be best with it, the skate should come with it, especially as you get to the higher price points. when my son was in youth and junior skates, the Pure associate would automatically bring over Superfeet and try to upsell them. So a parent is buying $200ish skates and here comes a kid telling them, “they really should get these because the stock footbed isn’t that good”, by the way, that adds another 25% to your total.