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I don’t know how current this is anymore, but 15-ish years ago an employee at an outdoor sporting goods store told me how manufacturing winter coats in China works. He said K2, Arcteryx, Mountain Hardware, etc. were manufactured by the same group and sometimes even in the same factory, just in tightly scheduled blocks. For a week or so they’d make Company X’s jackets then the next week they’d reset and make Company Y’s jacket, and so on. Specialization at the front yet again.

They do! McDavid was using Oates' preferred pattern again yesterday: There are many characteristics that can impact how a blade plays for someone. There are a few things that would steer me away from McDavid's curve if I were a P92 user. It's a junior sized blade, smaller in length and height. This will likely be noticed by someone used to bigger blades. It has very little rocker, in stark contrast to the P92. It's a very low lie, where even the P92-"5" is still higher than a P88 "6." It's not exactly a square toe, but more of a hybrid semi-square, like the E13 (P89's a touch bit rounder). Depending on what you're looking for in a square blade @Jbear, it might fit the bill. The curves of the McDavid and P92 are quite similar, and the loft looks to be very close, but there are other important things to consider. The first 1:35 of Geppetto's review of the blade has some good side by side comparisons with the P92. @Hills also reviewed PSHS and their McDavid curve in some depth: @Jbear, have you tried squaring off the P92 toe yourself? There are some suggestions on MSH if you search for repairing a toe with epoxy for wet environments. That way you'd keep the other features of the P92 and only lose a little bit of blade length. Plus, it's still maybe the easiest pattern on the market to find.

I'm not sure the shell is the same.

There’s a massive opening for innovation in my mind, using only tried and true materials already common in the market. The problem is rather traditionalism, on the consumer side showing itself in the reluctance to try new or different looking things, on the manufacturers’ side showing itself in the incredible degree of clustering around selected archetypes in each category. There’s symmetry in those two dancing that way, product market fit in a less exciting form. Still, once in a while something innovative breaks through: Graf’s 700 series, Micron Air 90, N/B’s one90 (I don’t see much innovation in the one95), SVH boots, Easton Mako gloves...

His square toe junior pattern that he’s been slowly working away from is a more open and curved Easton Iginla Jr. I’ve read on here that Oates insists McDavid use Oates’ preferred curve (Stamkos Pro?), which I believe is a P92 with some mid-toe curve added to it.

You could stitch some of the palm up under the binding of the inside and top borders like shown in Fedorov’s gloves above.

Oh dear. When do we get to see that?

Absolutely spot on.

Your feet are likely to broaden as they bear more load. It’s like any soft support. Press down on a squeeze ball with your fist and it expands outward under the load. It’s maybe only a few mm on each side, but add that up and suddenly stiff, snug-fitting footwear goes from comfortable to unbearable.

Wasn’t that true of Makos too? The active factor I’d guess is the True boot offering more direct energy transfer which makes the same hollow feel grippier compared to lossier boots. Though, I thought Mako users often experienced it as well. Still, I agree with @Sniper9, you’ll likely find the right feel at a slightly shallower hollow. Definitely try that before messing with your profile.

It’s a bit rich isn’t it. Bauer raises prices to ever-increasing heights and wants the crown of inclusivity. As long as you’ve got the dough...

It's a smart move to put a logo on the heel. With a lot of skates' quarters covered with shot blockers, it can be hard to see what skate a player has on. The heel is often still exposed when much of the rest of the identifiable branding on a pro's skate is covered.

Up to date, nevermind.

Is the liner and foam spec carried over from the Mako? It reminds me of that lineage.

Geppetto disagrees with you: In the first minute he says it's CCM's P71, which is different from Warrior's W71 and also similar to but not quite the same as Malkin Pro, which is strange because that's right back to where we started: you were enjoying the W10 and he pushed the Malkin Pro even though he says he doesn't think they're that similar. Also, depending on the Malkin Pro variation, the lie isn't that far off. W10 has that common pro feature of a radiused heel, for handling the puck a little further away from the body. One of the minor blade shape differences between my Malkin Pros (not sure they match with PSHS' Malkin Pro) and E4s is my Malkins are a little more square at the heel and the toe--not actually square just not as radiused as the E4--otherwise, the similarity is unmistakable. This will make the W10 read as quite a bit lower if you try and line up the heels' lies. But if you look at the blades overall, the W10 is quite flat on the last 85% of the blade, even flatter in rocker than the E4, which is close to as little blade rocker as you can find. These subtleties of rocker moments are what separate the W10 from my Malkin Pros, which overall have approximately the same lie. Both would be rated 4 under Warrior's old system, or 5 under Easton's pre-E28.

Who says they should?

Does Avery have that much clout with today’s players? Even if he does, is an individual exemption possible when you’re the member of a union? On top of that, a lot of the names he’s using are on competing products.

Is there an exchange of goods or services for money involved in this fan page’s activity?

If you're liking the W10-Gionta, PSHS' MacKinnon Pro looks like it's pretty much that. Any slight modifications that may have been made are hard to see without a real side-to-side comparison, but I'm fairly certain MacKinnon Pro is a vanilla(ish) W10.

I get the NHLPA objecting to his use of player images because his SoMe is his marketing. I believe you can’t use a player’s name or image for marketing without compensating them, and his use would seem to apply to that.

It would be too much to do a full catalog of errata but some examples that come to mind are... referencing the wrong original curve: Malkin pro as a modified P88 when the most common Malkin pro is much closer to an E4 missing similarities: Kovalev pro rocker and Hossa pro rocker are very similar (usually--both players had a lot of variants) and their very slight deviations from the P89 posting the wrong pattern picture: the P71 he introduced as the Burns, MacKinnon, and Barzal pro pattern looked more like the E13 than the W10 Gionta that they were using at the time not seeing what he's looking at or how the curve is performing: he says the McDavid is basically the same curve as the P92 when it's clearly got a mid-toe pocket, similar to an Ovechkin pro. He notices it shoots like it's curved the way it actually is, but he misidentifies it when talking analyzing the curve geometry in the first segment of his McDavid pro pattern video.

Mattias Ekholm has been using them since 55 Flex was around. It's similar to the Graf 707 concept of having the ankle articulation of a broken in 80's skate from day 1 (707 goes even further by not only having extreme forward flex, but also lateral flex). Aaron Ekblad (what the 'Ek's goin' on?) used to use them too, but since at least a few years ago seems to have something from Bauer he's happy with without having the 55 Flex style extenders. It's hard to see what he has but it looks almost like a Nexus 1000 style facing from the mid-foot to the top of his boots now. I don't think 55 Flex is around anymore, but you can still buy essentially the same thing: https://picclick.com/Hockey-Skate-Lace-Bite-Eliminators-Worn-153791097746.html Or if you're inclined to try them on the cheap and handy, there are some descriptions by members on MSH how to make your own.

His assessments of blades seems a bit off a lot of the time, so I'd take what he says about patterns with a dose of salt.

If you're a lefty, Base is an option. I have a couple of blades from them and am happy with their performance. Have yet to try one of their shafts.

Incredible goal, jaw dropping, even knowing what McD has shown he is capable of before. Still, to me, it looks like the Rangers' defenders are mostly stunned by the audacity of his 1-on-4 attack and are lulled to sleep by the sheer odds being in their favor. Combined they take just a handful of strides during the sequence, and Trouba even gets his stick on the puck, McDavid just overpowers him and takes it back. He was far hungrier and his speed certainly helped, but speed's not the whole story. Carl Hagelin is also very fast, but he would never score this goal. I also agree with @BenBreeg that these crossovers are what changes his direction. He accelerates while doing them, yes, but he's not zigzagging in a roughly straight-line across the rink.