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Cool. I was just curious if they're the same thickness and weight. The new ones look more like CCM's retail tongues, which seemed thinner than the previous VH tongues...it's hard to tell from just pictures though :)
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@AfftonDad , how do the tongues compare between your VH boots and the Trues?
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2017 Warrior Hockey Catalogue
flip12 replied to JR Boucicaut's topic in 2017 Product Catalogue Reviews
So excited to see blades coming back to life! Interested to see how the Alpha gloves feel. Hybrid Flex is the perfect cuff concept, simple as that. I'm already looking forward to the next iteration to follow after that. -
That looks odd...is it crooked, or is it just a trick of the camera angle?
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That doesn't sound nice. Yeah, it's a shame, as I thought they were really on a great track. If I were on the ice more, I'd get a pair of Shift+ to convert, but I'm not on the ice frequent enough for another pet skate project. It's still sad to see that development stop dead in its tracks.
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Soft overall or in a particular area of the boot? I haven't worn Alkali, but I'm familiar with the concepts from trying several Mission roller and ice boots from the golden, pre-Bauer days. I'm used to them getting soft at the top, which seems to be the point of the notched facing. I happen to like it, but I can see where it wouldn't be what everyone's into. Given the choice, I'd go with Purlyn over Nylon. Also, I'd go with the Alkali boot Justin Hoffman had a hand in developing and having manufactured rather than what's coming from the Tron folks.
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This is the only image I've seen so far, but it looks like Nylon indeed.
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I won't argue there, it's definitely better than the graffitied boots of the big two, just that it's not as attractive as the previous skates in its ancestry. People seem to be warming up to them in person, and I haven't had a chance to see them other than in photos yet, but I've looked hard and the more I see, the more I'm convinced. What Bauer and CCM does works for selling skates, apparently. Both of them have skates that were gorgeous in my opinion: CCM's RBZs and Bauer's One90s and One95s. Both featured the materials of the skate with minimal flourishes, still just enough to make it interesting. Even in Bauer's Back In Black Nexus 1Ns and new Vapor 1Xs, I have to try and hold my stomach. Dégueulasses! Is the stitching fake? It could be it's holding together a sandwich of leather and other soft materials that are necessary layers over the shell; I'm not sure but I've been wondering if it helps keep those pieces together rather than being purely decorative. Of course they aren't stitched all the way through the boot: you'd be able to see it if they were. It's also plainly shown in the videos from their workshop that they're just gluing them on and then sewing them up at the edges of the boot. Again, not having seen the new boots in person I can't attest to finishing quality, but every Bauer, CCM, and Easton skate I've inspected in shops over the last few years has had at least a noticeable degree of the same issues: uneven stitching, sloppy glue peaking out beyond edges. People talk about the hand made MLX and VH as if they're unique offenders in that area, but the big-factory made boots I've seen are nothing better.
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The new True make looks more and more RoboCop 2014 to me. It's so scattered, like a bunch of individualized pieces obscuring a delightfully cohesive shell. I've been less bothered by the previously looks along the way to this, and this just seems like a leap backwards :/
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There's usually a fair amount of Crosby sticks on eBay. His old wood blades look flatter (another) but his recent sticks look to have more rocker, both on the heel and the toe. They're not extremely rockered blades, by any means, but they don't look flat. Curve on this one looks a helluva lot like a PM9.
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How different is it from a PM9 lie 4? I'd be curious to see them side by side. I've seen a side-by-side with the Crosby and Crosby 2 and one looked like the curve of a PM9 and the other just looked a little straighter.
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A: MakerBot B: Of course. It saves the shop time, so it should save the customers (some) money.
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For those turn-and-burn big shops too, where they offer a blanket 1/2" hollow or something and can do a tremendously terrible job depending on who's manning the wheel, a Sparx could be nothing but a drastic improvement in quality and consistency. I once had my skates sharpened at what was supposed to be a specialty shop at the edge of Minneapolis and my edges on one skate were like sine waves afterwards. If they're that busy, then get the juggling-multiple-machines act going previously mentioned by @stevebalchunas and you've got the possibility of offering a little more--a machine running your standard hollow and another one where you change out for a custom hollow; maybe you charge $1-$1.50 more for the employee intervention time to control which hollow is applied on the alternative machine, but suddenly you've still got consistency and quality with less training time required. I'm skeptical about a Sparx beating an engaged veteran sharpener, but I know well the rarity of finding true crafts(wo)men in any field. Curious, will the Pro version have longer lasting grinding wheels?
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@IPv6Freely has a point: during that minute, you can do whatever you want. But the reason I mentioned PS in the first place was this: The grinding wheels have 10x the lifespan at 2x the cost.
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The ProSharp Home? They say it has just one button. (https://prosharp.ca/products/prosharp-home)
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Then maybe a ProSharp would make more sense.
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Those who've had Kessels can chime in with better accuracy because, as a lefty, I've only studied his pattern in pictures and the ones I've seen aren't from as much of an overhead angle as the first pic you posted (they're usually a little more looking-down-the-shaft). But it looks really similar if not the same pattern as I've seen of his sticks floating around the web. Every time I see it, if I were a righty, that'd be my pattern! Enjoy!
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If it's usual Kessel, he's often got a PM9 with a little open, mid-toe curve added; post some pictures of the curve and we can help identify its closest neighbors.
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Marleau's also a similar size but can beat opponents with finesse and is usually pretty good defensively as well. He ticks a lot of the nice-little-things boxes. If he's paired with Matthews and stays healthy he could put in 30 again, maybe 20 the next year, then who knows? It's still a lot of paper for a guy his age.
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But who among the TML '16-'17 roster compares to Marleau, experience-wise? I don't know how valuable it is or isn't, but I can see Matthews playing with Marleau for a year could accelerate his ascension, even if his learning curve is already leaps and bounds ahead of most of the pack. I recall Rob Blake saying how he remembers Melrose putting him between Larry Robinson and Gretzky when he was a rookie, because Barry was trying to get it into his head that he could be one of the best defenseman in the world if he would step up to it. https://www.nhl.com/news/blake-used-motivation-to-pave-way-into-hall-of-fame/c-738080 Chemistry's a good way to put it. You put two things together and you're not sure they're going to work...so maybe groundbreaking/theoretical/experimental chemistry. But once in a while it works.
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It makes sense if they want to accelerate the young kids' development. Marleau's been a team captain for years and has lots of difficult playoff experience. Moore and Hainsey are also character guys that know what it takes to compete based on the little things that have prolonged their careers, because Marleau's production puts him in the lineup where that's not the case for the other two. It's a lot of money for Marleau, but it seems like all of this is an investment in the team's character. Literally buying experience in the hopes that it will rub off on the young guns.
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Totally agree.
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Yeah, KGB is right, you were thinking of 2016 Kovy, who was apparently missing Panarin pretty hard. 2017 Kovy was pretty beast again (with strong support from Datsyuk and Voynov). He's still only 34! This could give him the chance to be the second Russian to get 500 NHL goals. And I think he wants to win a Stanley Cup. His chance with the Devils was pretty dim with his injury limiting him and they didn't have so much offense aside from what he could produce when he was healthy.
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initial thoughts CCM Super Tacks Girdle Initial Thoughts
flip12 replied to JR Boucicaut's topic in Ice Hockey Equipment
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I'm with you personally, but the fact is it is a design product so on that plane it is necessary to discuss concept, fit and finish, etc. And plenty of shallower buyers will be swayed by looks alone.
