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Brutal turnovers leading to the early Bruins goals. I don't love Toronto by any stretch but would have loved to see the Matthews-haters to eat a little crow. But seeing Marchand win makes me sick any day of the week. So at this point I am just anti-Capitals, maybe pro-Stars since my 8 year-old adopted them as his new team after Pens game 3. Would love to see the Caps out but it would be pretty awesome to see the Islanders do it.

I think some version of old Vapors (Vapor 10?) had that steel, not sure what others.

I dont judge anybody by their equipment. You want custom skates and that makes you happy, go for it. You just like to play and still use wooden sticks go for it. It’s a game. I have always been a gear guy, wearing out Great Skate, Ocean, and Kemps catalogs when they showed up in the mail. I still like researching stuff I need but once on the ice I don’t pay attention to it (my bad play keeps me distracted...)

Canes have played well and the series could easily be 2-1 the other way. We'll see if the 'Canes can keep it up. Anything to give jackass Don Cherry heartburn would make me happy.

You have Recchi and Martin in the room. Most accounts dont point to Sullivan as a figurehead. And they got beat last year by thr SCC, they didn’t lay an egg.

Murray cannot, no matter how many great saves he makes, give up that short side goal. It is a soul-sucking mistake. And Simon has to go. Guys like Hornvist and Pete Rose take limited talent and wo k thei tails off for success. Dominick Simon represents the exact opposite.

Pens played up and down a lot this season. Had a great last month and a half except the last week they lapsed into the downside. Isles are clogging it up but really exploit mistakes. So a combination of both, Pens have another gear or two but there is no guarantee they can get there.

I know it has been said before but maybe you need to get out of beer league. I play pickup a few times a week and they are good skates where people work hard and hustle but nobody is trying to win the Cup. Me and a buddy signed up for an adult skills class. I have neen playing since I was a kid but took some time off and while most of the guys there are beginners, it is still fun because when do you get to go and do 1 1/2 hours of drills with other players? And to top it off, I didnt know it when I signed up, it is run by probably the best skating coach in the area. What about splurging for some private lessons with a local goalie coach or organizing a weekly invite-only pick-up game? For me at this point I realize that at 45 I cant go like the 20 year olds but I am still I good physical shape and can move ok. I want to take advantage of that so that I don't think at 55 or 60, “I wish I hadn’t wasted the past 15 years sitting on the couch.” Just another thought for you. Having blowups on the ice isnt healthy but it is probably more the circumstances than the sport.

I can’t imagine what it is like to go through something like this but I’m pulling for you as I’m sure everyone around here is. John

This is my motivation. Between getting stuck the last two weeks not being able to get to the shop to get my skates done and getting there and finding out it is closed at 6 on a Saturday, I'm sold on the convenience aspect.

It depends on the type of activity. In a lot of cases the better players are going to dominate and the "C" players really won't be participating. This can be frustrating for them and really doesn't help them develop. You want to create scenarios where kids can have success.

Saw him about 10 years ago, great show! RIP

Never! No Ernest Borgnine, no Airwolf!

I was actually wondering about JMV the other day. I thought he had passed already. Pretty tragic life. I was a child of the 80s and Airwolf was one of my favorite shows. It, along with others from that era, had the best theme songs.

The thought is that 1) today's skates aren't as easy to modify like old leather ones were (and the shoemaker has since passed away) 2) with a better fit the padding wouldn't be necessary 3) I think the CCM customs have options for additional padding I would also love to have a bigger toe cap, my pinkie toe is always numb even after just an hour on the ice

Can you get Ribcore customs too? He only mentions Tacks and Jetspeeds. I am considering customs for too reasons. One, I am old and haven’t had new skates in like 20 years, so it is splurge buy. Two, i have boney feet and my pair now has all kind of extra padding inserted by a shoemaker who used to work on skates because skates always had hot spots poked me and killed my feet. Thinking customs would allow for batter molding and also adding extra padding.

By player vs. player I mean any drill that would have them competing, such as small area type games, 2-2, Ringette, etc.

The Luke Perry one gets me. I hated 90210 but he was only 52. That kind of thing always reminds me not to take things for granted.

My current pet peeve is that while it makes sense if they don’t want to get in the youth market, their junior sizes only have M and L, no smalls for elbow pads or shoulder pads. I would like to try the elbow pads for my son. Every pair he has irritates him, for some reason he is super sensitive about this. Maybe the 3pc sleeve design would help.

I am not actually sure about that.

Does the code still work if you got it? I had it and planned onbuying shins and elbow pads but got laid off for the last three months so everything went on hold. The STX rep here seems to have gone MIA, I PMd him and havent heard back.

Yeah I realize what it is referring to, but it is a pet peeve, nothing major. I would just use the term excess space. I remember being "corrected" by other engineers for using the term negative pressure once, that is what brought it up.

I just threw our some old blades, one was a Shanahan, toe with straight face and square toe. That was from ages ago...

I actually just found my 9000s when i was cleaning out a closet yesterday. When I bought them they were the only thing i could find in a tall. Probably going to switch from my Tackla girdle back to pants.

The old stuff is great design-wise. Nexus gloves and other 4 roll styles havent chamged a whole lot from the old Cooper BDP Pro style.