BenBreeg

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

Dunno if the Coffey curve was even a curve. Just about every 5030 on the rack was marked Coffey back then. Mine didn’t have a 3/4 curve, definitely much smaller. Some had “SC” and “BC” as well which we always thought was small curve and big curve but who knows?

I think there’s a difference equating some of these small off brand sticks as people who just love the game with the equivalent of ma and pa shops just struggling against the big Walmarts or something like that. A lot of these companies are just putting out junk and trying to hide it with graphics and marketing. And I would be curious, given where they are produced, how serious they take others’ IP. I guess the best way to put it is, it isn’t Rocky training with a log on his back in Chucks while Ivan Drago has the benefit of the latest technology and the little guy triumphs.

Sounds like it isn’t so much the solution but the process of determining the parameters of the solution. You can shim and profile to your heart’s content but it pretty much completely trial and error at this point.

What is your situation and goals? I don’t get caught up in the latest diets. I basically eat about 2700 calories a day, plenty of carbs, protein, and moderate fats, mostly from nuts and other good sources. I essentially eat a bulking diet because i have a fast metabolism, skate 2-3 times a week, and lift on non-hockey days. Pretty much everything I eat I cook from scratch, I don’t eat a lot of non-carb sugar and my sodium intake is low because I don’t eat much packaged food. I am not obsessive and if I eat some crap here and there I don’t care, although over time your desire to binge on junk kind of goes away. I will go to town on ice cream but that is about it. As for hockey, I am just as bad as with any diet!

It was one of those circumstances that his time was over. The last two years he put up lots of points but was a massive minus. When Pens won the cup he put up fewer points but was actually a plus player. You don't get him for his defense but there is a line. Add to that Malkin's performance lately, the exit of other players who were key players in the Cup runs, his alleged friction with Sullivan, and it was just time. You can't just keep the exact same team forever and expect to keep winning. I think it was just the end of this cycle and they have to set themselves up for this last act in the Crosby/Malkin era.

Mark, Wondered where you have been! I have had tendinitis and tendinosis in various places throughout my life. Running, hockey, bass playing, computer work, etc. it can be frustrating as hell. You go to PT, do all the work, rest, etc. and it feels good. Then you restart the activity and instantly you are back to square one. The jury is still out on a lot of the bands and KT tape but when dealing with frustrating injuries, some things that are low risk are worth trying. I have the most success with ART, which is a type of soft tissue therapy. Lots of chiros are certified. good luck!

Nice just to have the whole thing settled and move on.

So is it something only applicable and available to high level pros given the analysis needed to determine the parameters for the “shims”?

Yeah, the site is brutal. Tried watching the demo but unless they showed something at the end it said absolutely nothing, couldn’t finish it. Guess you just have to know what it is...

Great article, I love to read stuff like that.

Clearance, sale, and pro stock and you can get mainstream sticks for good prices.

If people buying it won’t notice a difference then it was the right move. I can’t imagine, as a product manager, trying to make the case to use a more expensive approach that I can’t argue will have any effect on performance or sales.

Really? You charge by perceive value and the customer’s willingness to pay. There are options. If its as big a deal as you are making it then people will vote with their wallets.

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....