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Set up a brand new work bench for my new SPARX skate sharpener last night. SPARX is sweet and the workbench is offering a lot of additional storage/organization for spare parts, tape, gear, etc. Hockey room is now hockey heaven! :)

Nice sock collection steel! Speaking of socks, I broke out the Mighty Ducks socks and pant shell for this morning's stick time. QUACK QUACK!

Glad to they're working great for you! Do you use the elastic toe strap or did you go to another set up? I'm going to try the elastic and see how I like it, but I have the sliding toe bridges as a back up. Elastic felt fine during carpet flys so we'll see. I saw some of your vids on GSBB and you play well! :) Yeah, I ordered these back in Dec '13, was quoted 8-10 weeks, and they didn't show up until mid-June. I moved back east at the same time and got busy with other stuff, so I haven't played any hockey at all and was totally out of the loop regarding Warriors production woes (aside from the six month turnaround on mine). I cannot believe what happened now that I'm caught up. That being said, I'm excited to take the unicorns for a spin and see how I like them! They have to be pretty good to get me out of my Smiths.

Nice set Hills! How do you like them so far? My Warrior Ritual G2 Custom Pros. Got them in last June and they've just sat around the house because I haven't played since last April. I'm looking forward to getting these babies on the ice today. :)

Thanks! Those are the Bonafide X SE's. Love the Warrior mitts, very comfortable and awesome looking to boot.

Just a couple pics from yesterday, messing around at a couple of stick and puck sessions, taking the new uni's for a spin: (I normally play goal, I sometimes pretend to be a winger)

I don't normally skate out, but I brought my goal skates into the shop today for a sharpening, and absolutely had to buy these babies: Gonna look awesome the half a dozen times I actually skate out this year. I'm beginning to understand how you guys collect player gloves so easily.

LOL yep, they've been pretty well destroyed. Barely any steel left, and the back padding is falling to pieces. Boots are still good though.

My collection of Grafs. 705 player skates, and three pairs of 750 goalers in various condition from brand new >> beaten to death.

Just Hockey has one pair left on their eBay store: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Reebok-7000-Custom-14-Sr-Ice-Hockey-Gloves-/110674575326?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item19c4b7ffde

I don't normally play out, but I think I'll skate out more now that I have these: I'm a sucker for navy/powder blue...and I'm ok with it!

Screen caps from a recent tourney:

Haha Law, I wanted to do that. Oh how I wanted to. I also was fit to skate after him and put my blocker in his throat, but managed to restrain myself. Later on, the tool was skating by me, backward, when I was over by the boards, and it was all I could do to not put my stick out there and trip him. So many opportunities.

As a goalie, my main stick and puck rule is that if I'm in net, you don't get to shoot unless I tell you to. I was at a stick and puck today, and some teenager was there just letting slap shots and snap shots rip from either side of the ice while I (and the other three goalies there) was busy with other shooters. He wasn't waiting for clearance, he wasn't waiting his turn, and he had absolute no regard for the goalie or any one else that was in the area of the net. And like most stick and pucks, very few people had full gear on. I let someone come in on me one-on-one. As I was just beginning to recover from that shot, this idiot let a slap shot fly from my left, and I never even saw it. It hit me in the throat, broke my lexan neck shield, and impacted into my Maltese neck guard. It felt like I got punched in the throat. I hit the ice immediately knowing what had just happened, but it didn't take me long to figure out that I was ok. A little sore and extremely angry, but ok. The alternative was a hospital visit of unknown severity. I'll take pissed off over a collapsed airway, thank you very much. I was absolutely livid. Yes, I get to now replace my shield, but more importantly this kid had absolutely no regard for people's safety. If I hadn't had that Maltese on, Lord knows how bad it could have been for me. He didn't own up to it either. I was down on the ice and someone else skated over to see if I was ok. The guilty kid continued to shoot for another couple of minutes until I skated over to him, mask and broken shield in hand, and looking pretty pissed. He apologized, but that was too little, too late. I informed him that he couldn't just shoot on the goalie unless that goalie cleared him to shoot. Especially since there were a TON of people there today, someone else could have been hurt too. Pure idiocy. It's frustrating as hell.

That guy sounds like a complete and utter tool, cdoug. It's not just a common courtesy thing, it's a safety issue. As a goalie, if I'm at a stick and puck session and have to clear some pucks out of the net and someone shoots on goal with my back turned, I get pretty pissed.