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Yes, I am using a heat gun.

Thanks for pointing that out. This particular Warrior shaft was listed as a standard shaft. It does seem slightly smaller on one end. I was trying to put it in the smaller end. The shaft doesn't really have any markings to show which end I should put the blade in.

I was heating up both the shaft and the blade. Maybe I'll try heating wood hosel less as suggested.

Since all the ice rinks are closed, I wanted to setup a stick with an ABS blade for roller hockey. I have this standard blade Bauer i300 ABS senior blade And this standard intermediate shaft Warrior AK27 intermediate shaft It seems like they should fit together fine, but the wood part of the blade that goes into the shaft is too big. Am I imagining this or is there some trick? See photos on Imgur

I don't think it's the Benn Pro Curve because Bauer lists that as a lie 6 and the description says the P90TM is going to have a lower lie.

CCM is going to make the new P90TM pattern?

The reason I have stayed away from True is because I heard it's way stiffer than the Easton Mako skates. I really like my skates to be less stiff.

I was just at No-Icing Sports last week and got a pair of Mako M8 skates baked. I sat in the CCM FIT machine for 15 minutes. If you really want to use that machine, you can go to No-Icing in New Hampshire.

Thanks for the quick review. Does anyone know when the Flylite stick will be released?

Thanks for letting us know, I used to wear Tacklas and loved them!

There's women's pro stock pants from the University of Minnesota team on Sidelineswap. I used to wear Tackla Air 9000 pants and they were super protective. Unfortunately, you can't seem to get them in the USA anymore.

I flip between P28 and P92 type curves. So the Benn and Barkov sound interesting. I do like a lie of at least 5.5 on the heel. Not sure if Benn / Barkov qualify. I like taking backhands, so the BC14 curve looked interesting, but I wish it had more of a rounded toe, more rocker, and was a bit more open. I don't know if there's a curve like that.

I have really small skates, size 2.5. Is it possible to do a Prosharp profile on these?

@STXHockey I'm also interested in knowing this. How are the junior blades different than the senior blades? Are they the same lie as the senior blades, are they shorter in length than the senior blades?

As I mentioned before, I talk to a lot of women who are 5'5" and shorter, and need a junior flex, but want a senior sized blade. They are adults, they can't "grow" into an intermediate size. If it were possible to get senior blades on the junior pro height stick, that would be awesome. It doesn't need to be all the senior blades, just the most popular ones (Bauer P92, P88, P28, PM9, etc) I have a Base junior pro stick and it's almost as thick as my intermediate stick. So I feel like it should be possible to do what I proposed, though I don't know how much it would cost for the manufacturing process.