BenBreeg

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...

The thing about lots of details and subtlty to designs is at th actual viewing distance all that is lost and it can look worse. To me that is why plain patterns work best. I don’t like the gradient, it can become dated too quickly.

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.

Wow, that was the old design when I was a kid! Nice! There some new BDP Pros I am tempted to grab right now, love the old stuff.

I just got back into playing this past year so I am getting back into the gear side a bit just because my stuff is old and kind of nasty. I still like browsing gear but not like when i was a kid where i always knew where the Great Skate, Ocean, and Kemps catalogs were in my house 24/7. Now it seems like a gear race with manufacturers constantly releasing new models with probably very minimal benefits. That actually gets boring to me compared when a new skate model was kind of a big deal.

Stadium jerseys are hideous. But I am apparently the only person who likes the Jets thirds. In fact, i am getting a t-shirt with the logo. Simple design with a script to me is always classy.

The trm “negative space” refering to skates. So many rip on marketing jargon then use this term to sound knowledgeable. So, is negative space actually a pressure point? If not, then it is just excess space...

Methinks she takes beer league a bit too seriously...

Good for you! Honestly, i don’t miss it at all. I deactivated mine about a year and a half ago. It was useful for events and organizational stuff, but I saw more people lose friendships from arguing over politics and similar topics than I can count. I didn’t delete it in case my kids ever get an account but judging from some 20-somethings I talked to at work, it probably won’t be necessary, none of them use FB, so I assume myy younger daughter will be on to another platform by the time we would allow her to have accounts anyway.

My quesion is this- As steel is removed the flare gets thinner but maintains its angle, which makes sense, if the steel is removed evenly along the blade everything is the same. But profiling by definition is going to remove more steel in some areas than others, so different parts of the blade will have differnent widths. So if you start with an 11’ radius Flare blade, then profile it to some combo radius like a Quad 0 which goes from a 13 in back to a 6 at the toe, the toe would be thinner. Or is the difference so miniscule as not to matter?

I think it depends on the drill and how much coaching you need to do for a given drill. Drills where it is done as a solo activity (not player vs. player) can certainly be mixed. But if you anticipate having to do a lot of teaching and interrupting the drill then that diminishes the effectiveness for the better players who are proficient and would benefit from more reps. Player vs. player needs to be split up to a certain extent, especially at young ages. As much as the "sink or swim" approach sounds good, it gets to the point where the less developed player just can't keep up, despite all the willpower and drive in the world, thus essentially not really even participating in the drill.

Do you coach? That may be a way to stay involved but step away from actively playing. Or it may be enough to rejuvenate you and not have to stop. Coaching ADM is a hoot and it really puts me in a good mood no matter what.

There was a time when Pure/Total hardly had anything in Cranberry, I remember my brother complaining about it, but it could have been during that transition period. They have good stock now. Several of the employees seem knowledgable but they definitely have a few kids working there that i wouldn’t trust helping me with skates, but that is usually true everywhere.

Equally likely to be a mental institution! 😄 Last week I had 4 out of 7 have to go to the bathroom during our game, mouthguard issues, the water bottle squirted so hard one kid was knocked off his feet when I gave him a drink, etc. Total fun!

Coached my first ADM practice last night after having spent years in high school and college club. I had occasionally been hit with a puck or took a spill before but nothing serious. I was manning the passing station and i was bent down trying to show this tiny kid something and he out of the blue lost his balance. Before i could react his stick comes up and hits me right above the eye. Hard. Didnt bleed at first so I try to play it off and go back to coaching him. The kid cant even focus on the puck now, all i see are these wide eyes through his cage staring at me. Now i am bleeding and trying to wipe it off and eventually we switched groups. Got the bleeding to stop and finished. But literally anouther 1/8” or 1/4” and it would have been my eye. Just a reminder to be careful!

I don't know that at the squirt level I would put meeting other parents and kids (not even sure how that would work) as a benefit to travelling. We meet lots of people through school and local baseball, hockey, scouting, etc. Different levels of the game? It is squirts, it isn't like when you compare western conf and eastern conf NHL styles or different types of hockey in different high-level leagues. I don't feel it is monotonous to play baseball which is basically in-house, seeing the same people occasionally. In youth sports people feel pressured into travel, tournament teams, year round participation, and as I said, it should be up to those people to show why it is beneficial, especially at younger ages. I know of no research that advocates for accelerating this and lots against it. I saw an 8 year old at the rink in the fitness place getting 1-1 private coaching, basically bodyweight plyos and stuff. Can't imagine what it costs and how it was any better than him running around playing. The oddity of seeing young kids at the rink showing up with ties on is another head-scratcher. To me it all goes into the same lack of perspective bucket.

I would probably flip it around and ask what benefit travelling has for the squirt level. Given the same ratio of practice to games, i can only see in-house as helping. Just my opinion though. We try not to go crazy with sports but when a winter sport like hockey starts the same week as fall soccer, it is hard to not have some months where you cant avoid a lot of chaos. Being anchored at a single rink would help and be attractive over travel, even if the travel is only within the area.

That sucks, due for a rewatch!