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Is the liner and foam spec carried over from the Mako? It reminds me of that lineage.
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On 11/15/2021 at 9:57 PM, Miller55 said:MacKinnon looks like it's a bit more open faced and looks like it's missing that real hard hook right up to the tip of the blade
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.
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18 hours ago, Hills said:So is all of the major hockey influencer accounts but NHLPA doesn't go after them.
Every single account that uses an NHLPHA member's likeness should be targeted in the same manner, but it isn't. Those accounts use the likeness of the members to grow themselves and sell merch or ad spots, this account probably got a member or a member's sponsor pissed off so they are going after them.Who says they should?
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12 hours ago, Miller55 said:Hope Sean Avery helps him get some support from the pros to get permission to use their images
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.
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28 minutes ago, Miller55 said:I view it more like a fan page. Dude loves sticks and curves. If I were him I would definitely look into my options to take legal action, but he doesn't seem like that kinda guy.
Is there an exchange of goods or services for money involved in this fan page’s activity?
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14 hours ago, Miller55 said:Anyway, someone above mentioned his way of describing curves, which I agree, it is a bit odd. I recently have been using a stack of Warrior W10 retail Gionta curves and love them. Asked his rec and he suggested Gino pro, which I have and can say that the Gionta has a lower lie and a way bigger toe hook than Malkin. From his visualizer, it looks to me like Hossa, Kovy or Spezza are much closer to W10. The other thing that irks me is that he changes the lie, often making it higher than the actual pro curve.
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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18 minutes ago, kornsined said:If someone is looking for this curve nowadays, is pro stock the only option? Which players use it currently?
I had a few of these back in the day and loved them. Would love to try it again.
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.
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4 hours ago, JoeyJ0506 said:Hopefully the new True skate incorporates something like Bauer's Comfort Edge. That is, literally, the only thing I do not like about my True skates.
From the looks of it that area isn’t changing.
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4 hours ago, Hills said:The problem is if the CAT9 that these people saw are just the retail model like the TF9 than those changes haven't necessarily made it to the custom skates I have seen yet.
It’s not necessarily a problem unless the corner @SolarWind has in mind is farther in the future than he has envisioned waiting for.
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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...
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HP70 is a copy of Tackla’s fit, which many people remember fondly. There’s a reason it doesn’t go away.
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@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.
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5 hours ago, crispy92 said:Thanks for the input. I guess if it’s available that is another option. It just makes me a little nervous as I’m currently using 9D mako(slightly large), 8.5 alkali skates which my toe is against the cap, and a 10 in most shoes.
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.
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On 10/6/2021 at 2:21 AM, the_game said:Anyone else excited to see Bauer Turbo’s make a comeback?
@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.
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15 hours ago, PBH said:Both P28 and P90T require you to shoot off the toe and both are great for pulling in the puck for toe drags and such.
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.
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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.
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Up to date, nevermind.