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    1 hour ago, acura9927 said:

     I mean how can they screw up oven temp? Its one setting per CCM skate. But I guess they did. 

    It's not that they messed up the oven temperature but the fact that they messed up the baking process.  I see it all too often.  

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    On 3/22/2024 at 12:57 PM, CHIP39 said:

    As we age anything you guys are doing for knee pain?  Of all the adult league sports hockey has been the easiest but man the knees are feeling like 10 years older every week.  I've been using a brace and taking advil which is what my ortho told me to do but I feel like there has to be something better.

    Depends on what the cause of the pain is.  If just aging and arthritis, icing and contrast therapy (ice and heat) help with pain and inflammation along with naproxen or ibuprofen.  Other factors are age and what your end game is.

    7 hours ago, marka said:

    Howdy,

    Brace and ibuprofen is what I do as well.

    A doctor buddy that I played with for a while basically told me that there's nothing that's going to 'bring back' my knee.  His advice was to do a brace / ibuprofen and when it became something I couldn't deal with anymore that I should come see him for a replacement.

    In my case, this is coming from an old meniscus tear though, so maybe your situation is different.


    Mark

    Same situation here.  First knee injury last summer resulting in significant root tears of the meniscus both medially and laterally.  MRI also showed a significant bone bruise and arthritis.  Cortisone injection helped within the first few months and got me back on the ice.  Now scheduled for a series of gel injections, but have been told I'm looking at needing a total knee replacement in the not so distant future.

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    7 hours ago, pgeorgan said:

     

    I more narrow toe box isn't necessarily an "issue" for some people. I actually downgraded from the Machs to the Ultrasonics because of the wider toe box in the former. 

    Bauer moving towards roomier skates is become an annoyance for me. I think it's time they offered a fourth option - Fit 0. 

    From a retail fitting perspective Bauer's 3-Fit system is better than the previous 3 line single fit lineup.  For those that have issues there's always custom.

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    20 hours ago, VegasHockey said:

    In my experience, TRUE sticks break about as often as CCM, Bauer, and Sherwood. There are a lot of variables that account for stick breakage. Its not just the level of play, but the position, size of the player, etc.

    So true...only thing I would add to that is technique.

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    3 hours ago, Leif said:

     

    The True skate was pretty much developed by one man and his dog in a shed, and they had no previous production experience. Bauer buy in tech such as CarbonCurv. The advanced hard foam in my Bauer 2S Pro shin pads is polystyrene. The soft squishy foam is bought in tech. They also seem to spend a lot of time designing somewhat dubious features such as CarbonLite blades. In addition Bauer spends a fortune on advertising and sponsoring players. And I do wonder if supplying non sponsored NHL players is genuinely profitable.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if Graf had the nous to figure out how to produce carbon fibre skates, they understand production on a smallish commercial scale. But they would be expensive. And they would need a decent selling point. True has thermoformability and one piece. True outsource their stock TF7 and TF9 skates to China, I assume they do the same for stock Catalyst and Hzrdus skates too. 

    There's a lot of misconception here:

    1) Scott Van Horne was part of the MLX team so he did have previous production experience prior to launching VH and then having been acquired by True.

    2) Supplying non sponsored NHL players comes at the expense of the team so that is very profitable to both Bauer and CCM.

    3) CCM also has one-piece boots and thermoformability.

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    8 hours ago, Sniper9 said:

    I know the 2.0 is still floating around and even in one of their more recent catalogues. 

    Going to say it's just a bunch of leftovers in limited sizes.  The original SpeedPlate fit and molded better than the second generation SpeedPlate.  Just prone to cracking overtime.  Something new from Bauer may be in the works.

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    3 hours ago, jeffg said:

    Haven’t seen any new holders being used in pre season games  

    https://forums.hfboards.com/threads/bauer-powerfly-holder.2940850/
     

    wonder if there is an issue 

    Could be logistics where the old steel doesn’t fit in the new holders or most are comfortable with the older holder setup. 

    1 hour ago, stick9 said:

    He said the guy he spoke to at Pure said the edge holders were no longer being made and if wanted to keep using Edge holders he would need to scour the web for some in his size. Which I knew wasn't completely true. I guess that's why it upset me so much.

    Probably confusing that Pulse TI and LS Pulse are on the way out. 

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    7 hours ago, stick9 said:

    Trigger or the Pro version of the dial they have now? I know the latter is coming.

    As a side note. I skate with a guy who broke an Edge holder last week. He brought them to PH to have the holder replaced. They told him that the Edge holders were no longer available and he needed to upgrade to the PowerFly holder and steel. This ending up costing him $260. I gotta say, that's pretty shitty of both Pure Hockey and Bauer. 

    Maybe his size wasn't available at that store.  LS Edge holder is still on newer models below the X5 Pro level and is an option on customs for those who don't want the new holder.

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    14 minutes ago, shoot_the_goalie said:

    Beam sounds pretty cool, but not sure the value is there for $250 as a stand alone.  A manual edge checker is pretty easy to use, and pretty precise for what's needed.  The big play here is that good edge checkers are usually around $100 or more on their own due to economies of scale.  However, now with 3D printing, one can print their own edge checker for relatively cheap.

    The value I see is for the inexperienced SPARX user who doesn't know how to interpret the results when not level.  Seems like the beam will give you adjustment advice tailored to the generation of the machine they are using.

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