BenBreeg

As of last night, yeah, they cancelled all youth programs, not shut down the rink. Had to reread the e-mail. Could be the motivation was misguided or even noble, just going off the scuttlebutt around the rink and the crazy stick times that were added.

The main rink just closed. I think he was trying to squeeze money out of the situation because hours before they sent out an email with tons of stick times every day. Insurance or lawyers probably corrected that...

Pretty much the pinnacle of the sweet spot! Congratulations, she’s beautiful!

Rinks that we do stuff in still open. As of now we have practice tonight. The schools all just called it, can't imagine hockey won't be next, it is the last thing we are involved with that hasn't.

That sucks, thought it might be a new version of Peranis buying older gear. Got suspicious when everything I looked at had every size/config/color listed like it was in stock.

I had those Coopers too, I think you adjusted that chest plate to different preset sizes.

Sounds more coincidental than by design. A heavier blade would change the balance point without changing the flex profile, a more tapered hosel would move the flex point down and the balance point in the opposite direction. As an aside, my dad was a HS baseball coach when I was a kid and always had equipment catalogs. I remember when the Easton shafts showed up in those, I thought they were so cool.

My only caveat to being on the ice, make sure you can be safe. Kids that age get behind you, slide on the ice, etc. You need to be on alert and able to protect yourself (and don't want to fall on the kids!). I have been playing my whole life and 10 minutes into my first mite practice I was helping a kid and he lost his balance and went down so fast I couldn't react. His stick came up and got me right above the eye. Not bad, but bloody which freaked him out and a fraction of an inch from my eye.

Anything off ice they need? I can’t imagine someone willing to help organize practically any aspect of an org would be turned away.

I had the fill-length Douglas through high-school, loved those things! My buddy had Donzis.

Epic sports has them for cheap. And they run big, I wear an 11 1/2 shoe and can wear either the intermediate or youth size. The adult came halfway up my thigh and I am 6’3”.

If you want to wear a sock but need the room try the Pearsox Ultralites, they are no thicker than pantyhose. Like $3 a pair.

Me three!

No way, keep them like that!!!! Nothing says "I've been playing since before you were born...and stay off my lawn!" like those!!!! 😄

I like my Ribcors, but would never describe the instep as med-high.

Don’t really understand what you just said... my foot isn’t restricted in my skate

True enough from a game situation, but working on any kind of moves improves overall puckhandling.

Makes sense, much easier to amortize warranty replacement over thousands of sticks than a bunch of small volume runs.

Are they thick, thin? Can you post pics?

At this point you have basically 6 options, 3 in Vapors and 3 in Supreme. A Fit 1 in a Supreme is going to be a little different than a Fit 1 in a Vapor. I gotta think between those and 3 lines of CCM most people can find something that works. Used to be Bauer made a skate, and CCM made a skate, you chose one or the other unless you went with Graf and later Mission or something. If people can skate with laces undone or none at all, I think volume (vertical) is a little overemphasized. So that means find a skate that fits length and width and go.

They can only have so many combinations and have any chance a store is going to be able to have enough inventory to serve it's customers.

I have a weird foot, Vapor-ish recommendation but I have a very high instep. So my past skate was a Supreme 7000, current skate is Ribcore. My foot bulges out in both. I don't tie my skates tightly nor do I tie my top eyelet. I have not noticed any restriction in my stride because of this.

The article is only about the football testing. Here is their what i assume initial publication, which talks about how they specifically test hockey helmets. Again, lots can be debated, but assertions and critiques must be factually correct. https://kstp.com/kstpImages/repository/cs/files/ABME 2015 Hocky STAR Rowson Rowson Duma.pdf

So, when they describe how they added rotational components to their protocol and explain their methodology, they are lying? We can argue about whether there are better methods, but at least be factually correct because from what I read in their protocol, there are 4 impact locations, delivered at 3 different energy levels, and they measure both linear and rotational acceleration. What am I missing?

That is cool, I remember painting layer after layer of ProtecToe on new skates though.