BenBreeg

You asked, I answered. I didn’t say they posted exclusively. Message boards are made up of members interacting. If you are looking for discussion, start a thread and contribute something.

A CCM rep is posting in one of the skate threads, other reps have chimed in from various companies. But again, equipment IMO is in a period of diminishing returns. In the last year I would say discussions around profiling/pitch have been of the most interest to me. Various people with some pretty deep knowledge chimed in and various research studies were referenced and posted. To each their own.

Have a basic set of workouts I can do with my limited dumbbells, but I need to start doing some running. My son found his sisters old rollerblades, maybe I should put mine on and race him around.

My thoughts as someone who is in product development and plays and has a young son playing. -The “innovation” is so incremental in many areas as to be meaningless. -They still haven't nailed the skate fit problem. It is confusing to consumers and the weak link is the value chain, store employees often don’t know what they are talking about. At the same store my son got fit by someone who knew what he was doing while I got the dunce. -Too few brands honestly, it makes things less interesting to me. You get similar design language from the big players in all their stuff. I remember when there were still a lot of other players listed in the Great Skate, Ocean, Kemps, etc catalogs.

And quite possibly Guentzel, which would be huge if he can get back in form quickly enough.

Well, the NHL is nothing more than a business. If there weren't fans to reach that appealed to advertisers in addition to attendance, it would be on the same tier as less popular sports. I disagree about smaller rinks and camera angles, the closer you get the more extreme the angles unless you have multiple cameras and switching which is weird for hockey. This format is fine, you can't please everyone. There will always be bubble teams that people could play woulda coulda with.

Works for me.

Those look thinner than the regular version of the Tackimac I tried.

Woo, it says guaranteed to get me to the next level! The bar is low though 😄 actually looks like you might be able to get a pretty low profile with heat shrink, maybe I will give it a try.

I used Tacki-mac when I started playing again because I have big hands. I liked them but as soon as I went back to regular tape I liked it much better. My son uses the Lizard skins so I may try that too but I need to be able to get it thin enough. For me I don't play enough to worry about palms and can either get them repalmed if needed or just get new gloves.

USA Hockey has a hold until at least June 15th at this point. I can't imagine wanting to be in a locker room with one or two mite teams and a parent for each, pretty much the worst situation I can think of.

Sorry to hear that, hope things work out for the best!

I have a shaft and just put ABS blades in it.

They are pliable when baked but if your volume issue is that your foot is high and coming out the top of the skate, baking wont help. They are a low-volume skate from an instep-height perspective.

Yeah, I remember once you wore through the ABS border it was time for a new one.

Titan was the goto street hockey stick when I was a kid because of the ABS blade. Never used one for ice.

I just did this with my Ribcores. I actually got a finger splint, the metal part is very soft aluminum so you can easily cut/trim it, and taped that to my foot (pinky toe area) to push out, then baked and molded.

Aside from the news, one of the few sites I visit every day. Great job!

Lots of angles, and to 218hockey’s point, any discussion of hockey in no way implies it is anywhere near as important as the health risks. I realize that the financial pressures on rinks and orgs is great, but any rush to get rinks open is asinine. Mathematically, we aren’t anywhere near over this, and rushing people back into the confined spaces of locker rooms and lobbies is foolhardy. I am sure his isn't the case but wouldn’t it be nice if people saw their kids off from hockey until fall, playing basketball in the driveway and riding bikes, etc. and it dawned on them that little Johnny’s skills didn’t atrophy, he was super excited to get back to the rink, and his path to scholarships and parental glory was still on track? What am I thinking? All this isolation must be affecting my brain...

I don’t know that the data shows that there are that many neck lacerations from what I have read. My wife insisted my son wear one but I hadn’t been putting it on him. My favorite piece of equipment might have been my Cooper SC Pro gloves in high school. Still love the look of leather gloves.

Kids’ spring league sent out something about accelerating the season once things open back up. I cannot see this happening in time. People must think that in a week or two between one day and the next everything in the country is just going to open up and we instantaneously are going back to normal.... That sounds like a recipe for relapse to me.

Can’t inconvenience some people with science and math...

Update- all non-essentials business in PA now ORDERED to close, so that would take care of any lingering high-stakes men's leagues.

Yeah, you need to keep some essential services open. Wa Post had a good article with 4 simulations showing the curves for no action, isolating a single high-event community, 1/4 population remaining in public, and 1/8 of the population remaining in public. It was interesting. But yeah, might make sense to go to the store when you need to as early as it opens as possible.

The closure will need to be much more than 2 weeks. Given the latency between exposure and onset of symptoms and the rate of infection in addition to lack of widespread testing, it's a months thing vs. weeks. Allegheny County (Pgh and surrounding area) just shut down all bars and restaurants and urged non-essential businesses to close for 2 weeks as of today. Edit- clarified the details of county shutdown