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    It's right between the original Mako silver heel and the APX2 silver heel. Materially, it looks closer to the APX2, where this looks like a foxing rather than an exposed shell like the Mako had. Still looks a lot like the recent vapors overall. I see the slimmer toe cap too.
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    I'll say it again: P28 lie 4. Now that I have a "lie 5" Mako E28, I'll double down on my request for a tame P28 (not the kinky Easton version) that's as low in lie as the Easton E4.
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    I thought you said 707's were the last skate that felt right? Could be I'm misremembering. Did he go over how your new pair would be different from standard Trues?
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    Did you inquire with True whether they could make the skates more along the lines of the Mako stiffness, mass, tendon guard, etc? @Larry54 noted the increase in bulk and stiffness as VH skates evolved: If you still have the True skates, maybe you could see if they can try to match the original VH build as their offer to remake custom skates once if they don't work out for you, since your son's experiencing that they're just overbuilt for his needs.
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    Do the Trues have the same specs on their steel as he had on his Makos?
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    I’d love a Kovy if I could check it out to make sure it’s right in key areas. Both Kovalchuk and Malkin seem to base a lot of their classic patterns on a PM9 with a toe curve, that’s why I’m curious about the degrees of overlap and uniqueness between the two.
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    Would they be different enough from the BASE Malkin?
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    There's almost no trim over the inner edge of the boot, beyond the eyelets. Duchy's whiteouts have very little left to make white!
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    How do you mean?
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    @Nicholas G, is a retail FT1 not within the range of pro-spec? Not all professional FT1 wearers add protection to them.
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    Byfuglien's a big guy but his feet aren't huge. I've seen his used MLX, VH, and True skates come up for sale in various online classifieds and he's a 10 or 10.5, iirc. Although they have to bear his heft, but they're not extraordinarily large pieces of footwear. @mojo122 I know you say you're retiring from this thread, but can you elaborate on where you feel there's overwrap? Along the whole facing area or in a particular spot or spots?
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    I heard anecdotally that he had his VH skates punched at a shop in Edina when they were in town to play the Wild. If that's true, he'd have had tweaks done even after using them in games.
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    Did you ever try the skate with two footbeds in? It sounds like the heel pocket is too high. In my opinion, lowering the facing won't address the fit all the way around your foot. If the volume is too high overall, the other areas that can't be cinched to your foot with laces will still be sloppy.
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    How's the heel lock after this intervention?
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    Like you mentioned earlier, given that Warrior’s owned by New Balance, there’s a lot of footwear know-how in the greater corporate group. My thought has been, if the interest equation were in favor of doing it, Warrior would go ahead. Regardless of which direction they wanted to go, they could jump in the market and do ok with their investment. Even if they wanted to acquire a different small speed skate company to fold their IP into these hypothetical new skates, they could afford to do that. The fact that they haven’t makes me think the numbers really just don’t add up in that direction. PS—sorry for contributing to taking this so far off topic! PPSS—the new RX3 gloves have my interest 🙂
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    From what I recall from scattered posts is the problem with pursuing Graf in that way is it wasn’t a brand acquisition but a liscensing of the brand so it couldn’t be folded in under the any new brand’s roof. Graf-CH is still the parent company.
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    That would be a big gain for CCM!
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    Any photos of this new CCMed Aleks?
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    Said it before, but I wish Warrior instead of HockeyTron had bought Alkali. That way, there would have been another alternative in the skate space and Warrior would have been able to avoid the R+D process (look how far their gloves came from the first generation!) and also expand their brand in roller a bit. Every once in a while there are still people who want that old Mission fit for ice hockey skates. It would have given a tried and somewhat niche but loved fit another go. That being said, I trust Warrior has looked countless times at the market and has stayed out for reasons that make sense to their accounting. I don't have that view, so my perspective is flawed due to my inherent limitations. I still think there's an appeal there.
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    BASE has been doing that with sticks. Problem with cutting out the middle man is, how do you get a sense of the product before you buy it? Word of mouth, trying teammates’ stuff out; then that’s the chicken and the egg problem, only a little different this time since they were previously stocked by shops, both B+M and online.
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    I misremembered the exact substitution mentioned, but here’s the post I had in mind (clipped for relevance).
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    It would be nice if we could get an official word on that from True, because SVH mentioned they could make the original VH hockey boots less stiff by subbing fiberglas for carbon. Could be that’s not an option they’ll entertain anymore.
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    @CigarScott have you checked out some of BASE's low lie patterns? Seeing as you're a lefty, you might like to try the BC15 (4.5 lie) or BM12 (lie's 4 and 5 available) or BM09 (lie's 4 and 5 available). You could lessen your financial investment to find the lie and length you like by getting a shaft or two at the flex you prefer and then swapping blades in and out.
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    Nice find! I've been wondering if Harrington uses Crosby's pattern. Looks a lot like it. Kind of like a PM9 with a flatter heel rocker... Anyway, I'm not that tall, but still on the taller side and with long arms and I can't use a really long stick for the life of me. 5 lies or lower work best for me and I usually cut my sticks from around my chin to my Adam's apple barefoot. Basically, the LHS isn't wrong in saying that's a general starting point for people today, but it isn't the end all, be all. Just look at Crosby, who uses that pattern or something incredibly close. I think he cuts his sticks around his chin, barefoot. If a shorter stick feels good to you, go for it!
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    It’s a tradeoff: highly moldable skates means you can set minor details in stone. It’s a more responsive skate so it does more literally what you tell it to. The problem is learning the skates’ language so you know how to communicate with your own pair and thereby get it to do what you want.
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