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    Are you getting lace bite at the top? A lot of people find they don’t need to lace Trues with much if any tension. The molding more than snugs the boot up sufficiently for performance.
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    Especially when Warrior’s parent is shoes first and foremost.
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    Is there any connection between Verbero’s boots and the Easton S15/17? Verberos look like the same pattern just redressed.
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    That’s a good point. I’ve never gotten to try a one90; still keeping my eyes out for a pair in the right size.
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    No. Bauer scoffed at that “innovation,” pointing out they had had that feature going back to the one90. Back in the day all skates had it. https://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2013/04/29/Marketing-and-Sponsorship/Easton-skate.aspx
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    Huh, your take on True's construction sounds different than mine. What makes you think the way they build their boots is closer to Bauer's method, fusing a quarter piece to the heel/outsole piece?
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    Wait, if CCM has one-piece boots doesn’t True as well? I’m curious to see how the TF7 does in the flexible one-piece category.
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    Also morbid. My mind thinks mafia with a name like that.
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    Hence the name?
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    Custom tailored jeans might be a good analogy. The measurements are correct, but the final mapping of the custom product to real flesh and bone, with all of its quirks requires a final step. Prebake, it’s like custom APC denim. Time is required to take them from the right measurements to an extension of your body. Thermoplasticity replaces time with the custom skates. The problem isn’t just negative space, but positive space.
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    That explains it. I remember the guy behind Icehockey360.ru posting his scans and he had something like 90th percentile wide and deep feet with below average heel width and it recommended fit1 or something that didn’t seem to make any sense.
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    My experience molding my MLX has been the opposite. They feel nice and snug while baking, but then feel a bit slackened and on the verge of loose after they cool. It doesn’t translate to the skating experience though. They feel extremely connected and locked in on the ice. It’s like @Sniper9 says, you can’t judge their performance feel to their walking around feel. I haven’t baked my MLX with the shrink wrap method yet, but swapping out the stock tongue, which was very stiff, for ones that were increasingly soft brought my feel for the ice way up. I plan on doing a shrink wrap bake before taking to the ice again, maybe this month. My guess is the shrink wrap is intended to compensate for the looser feel after cooling from just lacing up the skates for the heat molding.
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    I always wonder why the index is 3-piece. That's the straightest finger when gripping a hockey stick. Middle and ring need to be 3-piece. I think it's because there's so much focus on the index finger when trying the glove on and doing the punch grip test. But for handling with a stick, that's not really necessary.
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    Why though? Did he come up with the pattern?
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    Bourque was using what looks very close to the P89 before those two were drafted. That’s why I was thinking it might have something to do with him. I can’t find pictures of either T. Drury or C. Darby with blades that look like P89s.
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    I’m curious about the origin of the P89. It looks like Mogilny used it at some point, but he also changed things up more than anyone I’ve ever seen. Ray Bourque’s game used sticks look very close, at least in the blade face. I’ve never seen how deep or what type of curve he used though.
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    I have Easton’s version and Bauer’s. Bauer’s is slightly more closed and rounder at the toe, but only very slightly. It’s an awesome curve. The rocker is underrated. It matches my Kovalev Pro stocks, except he had a lower section shaved off the heel and his blade was about 1.5 inches longer. I love how it’s just enough curve to help you out but not too much, where it gets cumbersome, like I feel with my Malkin pros or E28.
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    The mid-tier skate has been getting stronger and stronger, much like the mid-tier stick. Going up in price from what in the early 00’s was the top end ($400 for skates, $150 for sticks) gets you reduced weight and the latest set of tech/gimmicks (depending on how you look at it) but the performance is usually elsewhere: technique and tuning spec to what your body needs. I suspect the TF7 is merely exposing this effect, forcing a Warren Buffet low-tide on the marketing of skates.
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    SVH said the front holes line up ok on one side and not the other...can't remember if it was medial or lateral.
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    How do you mean?
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    Yeah, absolutely no need to open that can again. I was just confused because you asked @Coldclay and I came by saying, here's a test it did not do particularly well on. That's it. You happen to disavow that source, but that's totally up to you.
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    What?
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    Didn’t fare well on VT Hockey Star test. https://www.helmet.beam.vt.edu/hockey-helmet-ratings.html
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    Awesome! If leaving the holders on, I’d do it the way you did, to get a truer wrap of the foot.
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    @JSchultz, I’ve mostly seen the shrink wrap method applied to the ankle and heel areas of the boot. The holders might get in the way, but perhaps you could have them removed for the baking process. I want to rebake my MLX with the shrink wrap method to get an even snugger fit but want to do the opposite of what I’ve seen most people do. I want to shrink wrap from the forefoot to the heel lock area and skip the top three eyelets because I use a deep ankle aversion in my stride. I molded them by just lacing them up that way last time, skipping the top 3 eyelets, and it was the best I’ve tried. It’s easier to remove and reattach the holder on stock MLX holders though because they’re fastened with Torx screws instead of rivets.
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