BenBreeg

From my perspective from someone who does this periodically, you are going to learn something that first lap out. You will get feedback on how you are placing you weight on each skate (good chance it isn’t perfectly equal). You will start to understand better how the different muscles of the foot contribute to controlling the skate and applying pressure within. If you have a specific issue, like turning one way or the other or a certain edge, it will make it worse but you will get magnified feedback on where things are going wrong.

What is odd about addressing things fundamentally first?

Out of curiosity, why not just use more copper rivets as a matter of course? I am sure there is a price difference relative to non-copper rivets but it is a drop in the bucket when compared to high end skate cost.

No, you have biomechanics, can’t be avoided. They are either contributing to or detracting from your skating. We all have dominant sides, habits that we have developed over the years. My right foot pronates AND i am left leg dominant. Even off the ice if I am standing I tend to default to weight on my left foot. I skate unlaced at public skate now. If you pay attention to whats going on when you do this you will make quick improvements. I am 45 and have been skating since I was about 10 and was able to ID several issues right off the bat. You get feedback that a tight, stiff skate laced up will hide. I have seen improvement after only doing this only a handful of times, can’t imagine what I could do if I did it once or twice a week. I am still in an old Bauer Supreme 7000 which by this point is probably a fraction of the stiffness of these new skates and don’t feel it is holding me back, although I will be forced into new skates soon since they are literally starting to fall apart. Just because everyone doesn't teach a certain thing doesn’t it is or isnt valid. Laces undone has been done for a very long time.

Rationalization is a beautiful thing.

Learn the players’ personalities (you probably have a leg up there). Know which players respond to overt criticism and which ones need to be coached in a private side conversation. As mentioned, be valuable to the coach. Do all the little things on and off the ice that lets him focus on his core coaching responsibilities. i was in a somewhat similar situation when I was assistant for a college club team. Expectations weren’t explicit so I just defined it myself. I started running dryland and all S&C activities including designing the program and creating a web site for it. I put up bars in the office to hang the jerseys, took them home and washed them after every game (my wife lovvved that...), put together a first aid kit with spare helmet parts, designed and ordered helmet stickers and game pucks, delivered the line up to the scorer before the game, etc.

No need to stay with a line, mix and match. Don’t leave out STX, I think they provide great value and have multiple price points.

Yeah, the muscles atrophy. I remember getting a full leg cast off as a kid and my knee maybe had 15-20 degrees ROM. The wrist has a lot going on inside. Keep at it and hope to see you back on the ice ASAP!

Looks like some similarities to the lines of the new holder.

I've been wearing that girdle for a while. Pretty much the same as the old Cooper CG2, assuming the padding is a little better. Somehow I lost my shell though so I am wearing Tackla pants again, not bad but a little roomy.

I thought the reffing was fine, nothing egregious either side can point to. Reffing didn't limit the Bruins chances, they had plenty. Binnington stopped them and the Blues outworked them for some goals and a ridiculous breakdown led to another.

Fun game to watch, crazy story.

Never understood why that phrase is always seen as a positive...

I agree and wouldn't put money on the Blues but honestly I have been surprised at how both teams have bounced back from losses so you never know.

Until things fell apart I thought the opposite, the Blues forced a ton of turnovers in the Ozone. Rask kept that game where it was until Boston broke through. Kind of opposite of Game 5. Not sure of what happened after 3-0 so that may tell a different story, I went to bed.

Hopefully this topic dies once game 6 starts, wasn’t even close to a dive.

Makes sense to me.

It was no dive. It's unfathomable (unless of course you watch NHL hockey...) that you can miss that call. But if you are Boston, you really stop skating because you assume there is a penalty? In pro hockey? In the SCF?!

Just found it. You can set the Read St... (not sure what the full title is, it is truncated on my ipad) to “Unread item links take me to first unread post”. Then you can also dave that or any other combo of filters as a custom activity stream. You then access it through the menu but i don't know that you can link these settings with the unread posts icon, you still have to navigate the menu to get to it.

Imagine, just for a second, that St. Louis’s PP wasn’t so bad as to make me want to gouge my eyes out with a spoon....

Glad you posted, being off today made me forget it started! Def pro-Blues. I am neutral on Boston except for Marchand so he is enough to make me root against them.

I think coach's interviews at this point are commonplace, Pens do them for regular broadcasts, I would imagine others do as well, but I agree, it is probably irritating and you aren't ever going to hear anything surprising. Would be awesome to hear, "Well, some guys were flat in the first period, especially Bob, so he's glued to the bench which should help us turn things around..."

I love Doc, McGuire, not so much.

I would email PSH. One, they will be able to help you with fit and two they may not be so strict about returns, never know. Hockey Monkey also has pro stock pants and allow you to return for credit.

The pattern of garbage officiating has been going on so long that I am convinced that yes, it is an impossible sport to officiate, or they don't care. But that was an obvious call.