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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.

Realize, if you just want to shoot pucks, it doesn't have to be perfect, just slippery enough. Johnson floor wax or pledge over melamine or laminate is good enough. I think if you want to do a lot of stickhandling with a puck then the surface needs to be a little more slippery.

The urathane sounds like a good approach, I know there is some YouTube hockey training guys who seem to have a facility with a either polished or urathaned floor. By prep though, same for urathane as for epoxy, you are going to need to clean it, degrease it, and apply an acid wash. Not overly complicated but still a decent project depending on how old the floor is and what kind of shape it's in.

Well, you can get some basic tiles or a pad for a reasonable price. And depending on the condition of your garage floor, you may have a lot of prep work to do and you cant just put any paint down, so cost may be a wash.

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.

Broken collarbones are so much a result of that perfect strike. The impact, however padded, gives the collarbone nowhere to go. I broke mine on a mild collision in men's league, just a product of the physics.

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.

Over the past two years since I started playing again I have replaced some needed gear so I get into it when deciding on what I need and then I am good. I tend to still browse a lot of gloves because pro stock stuff have some cool patterns but for now I just have a pair of Nexus for playing and the same pair for coaching.

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.