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Larry54
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I would assume that the data they acquired from special cases like Byfuglien and Chara would be added to their process for making skates for other huge clients. Maybe they'll use your data to improve their process for guys of your size.
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Those look like a good choice being as they describe a "thin, liner type" sock. So your issues are not due to excessively thick socks.
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Do you wear fairly thick socks in your skates?
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There seems to be a lot of space between the pencil and your foot. However, to me those pictures don't look like a properly baked VH skate. The eyelet walls should be wrapping over the top of your foot instead of jutting straight up. On my skates, I can almost squeeze my pinky finger beneath the pencil at its closest point to the foot, but the eyelet walls curve over my foot and ankle. I suggest you rebake them and press down on the eyelet rows with your hands while the hot boot is on your foot. Or use a heat gun to soften the top of the skate while it's on your foot, and press down the area with your hands while taking up the slack in your laces that this will result in.
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Funny you should mention that. Before getting my first pair of VH skates almost 5 years ago, I skipped the top eyelet on Bauer Flexlites. When I got the VH skates, I had all the forward flex I needed even laced to the top. Those skates were lighter and more flexible than my current pair of VH skates that I've had for about a year and a half. I've been struggling a bit with limited knee flex with the new, much stiffer VH skates. I tried different lacing patterns with different types of laces (regular, waxed, and oval). For the last month or so, I've been omitting the top eyelet, partly inspired by posts by Vet88 and Amazinmets73. After having gone through a short adjustment period, I'm finally feeling the same agility and mobility that my old VH skates provided. It's as if the boot is so secure to my foot below the second eyelet that I don't need the additional stability that the upper eyelet provides.
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Thanks. That's pretty much what I figured.
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Like I said, but maybe not clearly enough, I'm not sure if it was the trainer or the store rep who told him that. It might just be some sales bull, or to make my friend feel like he's receiving a special favor getting a supposedly "pro spec" version. When I asked him for details, he wasn't able to tell me. He's not exactly a gear geek. So for the record, Zac, does the regular Joe get exactly the same product as the NHL pro?
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A goalie friend of mine got some True skates. He said he got fitted at a retailer but went through a friend of his who's an equipment manager of an NHL team. He said that he was told (I don't know if it was from his friend or from the store fitter) that the quality of True's NHL boot is superior to the one available to the typical consumer. He didn't know the precise details, but my question to the True fitters on this board is: Is there any truth to this, or was someone bullshitting him?
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I didn't mean you could order them from that site. In fact I don't think they sell online. I meant that one of their stores (the store I specified and probably other Hockey Experts, Rousseau Sports, etc) have it in stock.
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The ones I've seen and touched have a texture that gives them a carbon fiber look but they seem like plastic to me.
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They're already available here. I saw them at the Hockey Experts store at the Rockland Mall in Montreal.
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Don't they now have a flat heel surface built into the carbon fiber? On the left is the original VH skate, and on the right is the last VH model before True bought them and before the Step holder was available.
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I'm Canadian, and it took me a little while to "get" it. But I'm not from Ontario let alone rural Ontario. 😄
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That's what Saku Koivu had on his skates when he was with Montreal. Notice the thick black shims. I guess taller steel wasn't available back then. But with shims, maybe the "flange" (or whatever it's called) at the top of the holder would still hit the ice so it wouldn't be as effective as taller steel.
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Just noticed this today. I haven't contacted any of their stores so I don't know if it's actually in stock yet. http://www.triohockey.ca/en/accessories/skate-accessories/bauer-speed-plate-20-60572
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More like the Holy Grail, actually. He wants a PM9 in a higher lie. Only BASE has that. I needed a PM9 in a 4 lie and that was my Holy Grail.
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BASE Hockey's BM09, which they used to describe as the equivalent to a PM9 is available in a 6 lie as well as 4 and 5 lies.
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But what's the difference in weight between two True skates of the same size, one with integrated shot blockers and one without? My blockerless VH skates weigh around 830 grams each. NicholasG's skate weighs 1020 grams. That's 190 grams difference but my skates are around size 6.5 with size 254 LS2 holders, whereas his are a couple sizes larger with size 272 Step holders. So it sure doesn't look like the integrated shot blockers are "much heavier" than external ones if at all.
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Out of curiosity, is the extra weight of the integrated shot blockers more or less than the weight of conventional shot blockers / skate fenders? Assuming it's less, I could see why someone who would have worn shot blockers anyway would want the integrated ones, while someone who doesn't usually wear them might not like the extra weight.
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That's assuming the Bauer size 9 were properly fitted. If your toes brush the Bauer toecaps, your assumption is probably a pretty safe one.
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The "glue" issue looks like some kind of clear coating rubbing off. It might have something to do with the way the blue lines/graphics are applied to the liner. My first pair of VH skates had grey Clarino liner and nothing like that happened. After 3 years of use, the liner just lost a bit of its original sheen in some spots. I got my more recent pair just before True came into the picture. It has a brown Clarino liner and also doesn't have those True blue graphics, and after a year there is no sign of wear like in your pictures. As for skipping the top eyelet, if you place your True skate beside your old skate, you might see that the True's top eyelet is about the same height as the second eyelet of your old skate. That was the case when I compared my VH skate to the Bauer Flexlites that I wore previously.
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Just to give an idea, with insoles removed from all the following skates, my old Bauer Flexlite 4.0 skate is 750g. My first VH skate that I got when they first came out is 730g. Both have fairly worn LS2 steel in a 263 holder. My newer VH skate which I got just before True entered the picture weighs 820g and I didn't order the optional shot blocker protection. It has Step steel in a 254 holder. I don't notice the extra weight that much, but I had heavier Graf Sidas insoles in the first two whereas I have the stock VH insole in the last skate. P.S. As far as blacking out the logo, I lean toward leaving it. And I prefer white laces. But in a game situation, I don't ever notice what others are wearing anyway. My focus is elsewhere.
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There are a few posts from this thread starting here which might interest you:
