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The P89 or the P88? P88 and variants of it are quite common these days, P89 seem to be rarer when browsing pro return sticks online. I’m pretty sure Base has the P89 for order as BC17, but only available in left.

From the looks of it that area isn’t changing.

It’s not necessarily a problem unless the corner @SolarWind has in mind is farther in the future than he has envisioned waiting for.

IceHockey360's Instagram post said these are supposed to shave 100g of TF player skates: If you zoom in on them you can see the similarities to the TF Goal construction: Truenado has been shifted down a bit, quarter paneling has an all new makeup and the toe cap is also new, sleeker than previous True/VH iterations...

@SolarWind, it’s on better display on Thomas Chabot, as he doesn’t wear external blockers.

HP70 is a copy of Tackla’s fit, which many people remember fondly. There’s a reason it doesn’t go away.

@Steve_v3, do you have a cobbler you've had repair shoes for you? I imagine taking it to them, they could stitch some supplementary wings onto your tongues where they're needed. I imagine it wouldn't cost nearly as much as other options.

Have you taken the insole out to see how it lines up with your foot? Lacking x-ray vision it can be hard to see what’s going on with the fit, and seeing is often believing. You have some peculiarities with your feet it sounds like you’re on top of, which is great. But size is just a reference number, and sometimes doesn’t align to what’s expected at all. Try to ignore the number for everything but knowing where you’re at in the fit scale. Don’t let a number scare you from buying the skate that fits the best.

@PBH predicted it. What I find interesting is Bauer looks to be getting to a one-piece skate faster than it looked like they were going to.

I know I’ve drummed this beat several times but P28 doesn’t require you to shoot from any particular place. It does have a limbo spot mid-toe which is a generally safe release point on many patterns. This leads to a lot of people writing off all but the toe launch zone but such a limit P28’s release capabilities is just a common misperception.

I don't understand Barzal's shin taping. It looks like it would dig into the ligaments on the back of the knee. Though he has some tape around the top eyelet and back of the boot, he still skips the top eyelet. But without him explaining the feel he's getting from it, it's hard to tell if it ads a significant degree of support. It certainly isn't inhibiting his ankle flexion: That tendon guard is leaving him wide open to a Cookey cutter.

I did a little digging (clicked on the link and scrolled for a few seconds) and got the impression it’s “Derby” as in roller derby, in which case it seems to make hockey sense. They’ve got rainbow tracked: https://derbylaces.com/shop/derby-laces/waxed-laces/rainbow-72-inch-183-cm-derby-laces-waxed-roller-derby-skate-lace A little short for anything but kids’ and Bobby Orr’s boots though. Edit: did a little more scrolling, then a search and found they seem to have all the specific pride variants represented: https://derbylaces.com/?s=Pride+style&post_type=product

TF9 is top of the line, but True isn’t really feature oriented in that way. In my opinion, the features in new generations of skates are mostly there to justify changing to a new model year. True’s emphasis seems to line up with this. The core of what they do is incredibly solid and they prefer to tweak that to keep the focus on fit and function over making false promises about how a boot will make you faster. TF was their first line of ready to buy skates and the marketing focus was on how they were able to make a new shell to allow similar fit and performance from their custom offering at retail and an incredibly hard to refuse price point.

But the holders won’t be going in the oven at all, if I’m understanding correctly, only the boots will.

I haven't seen the same feature I'm thinking of in Microns. I know they had the notch cut out between the third and fourth eyelets. I'm pretty sure every brand has tried that, though most stopped before Micron featured it. The Graf flex zone I'm referring to isn't actually a notch, but an extra space between the top and second eyelets on many Graf models. Graf's usually-lower boot height makes this roughly a spacing between the second and third eyelets on more traditionally cut boots. It's sort of a forced eyelet skip, though not as big of a jump as a full eyelet skip, promoting forward flex. CCM started having more space there in the second gen. JetSpeed, if I recall correctly. Now Bauer's doing it and emphasizing it the same way Mission did 15+ years ago.

Clever. Another Graf detail incorporated by the other brands. CCM had that gap there first, going a few generations back. Now Bauer's got it and throwing in the flex dart for emphasis.

Also looks like there’s a Missionesque flex notch between the 2nd and 3rd eyelets at the top.

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Let’s see it!

Happy to help! I was actually sitting and doing some design sketches when I came across this topic.

Just sketched this up. Nothing revolutionary, but it's pretty true to the original.

Why don’t they just sew them to the boot?

Can you post some pictures of him playing with 5 eyelets laced? That's worth seeing. All-Star games? At what level?

Didn’t Evans tape his tendon guard, tongue and upper eyelets in a bundle like Orr?