Law Goalie

What goalie sticks? :)

Did they seem to imply that this was the case for any and all Eagle-made palms, or just the (proprietary?) MSH2? I've had my eye on goat and mustang for a while...

I play for the Edinburgh Beagles and that was Ice Sheffield. Makes me annoyed that England has better ice rinks than Scotland! Too right - is there even a rink in Glasgow any more? When I was there, the closest I found was Paisely...

Gorgeous... You bastard, you're making me want the CCM pro-stock goalie pants more than ever!

Heh, nice. I've always secretly wanted to buy a cheap shell and get it plastered with random fabric ads - pharmaceuticals, sex shops, used car dealerships...

I gotta do something between fashion-forward tape jobs, I guess. Memorial Day is coming up soon so I'll be switching all my black tape to white. Can I keep my knob white after Labour Day?

That's a scurrilous myth! I skate on 1/2" at 220lbs, and a friend of mine is on 1/16" at 235 (6'6") - and despite both being on RBK steel, we're both about 6h per sharpening. Ah well, all is forgiven.

My shin guards are 37"... tongues under...

Dear god, man, take care of that! FWIW, 99% isopropanol sprayed in the pads is what my friendly neighbourhood germaphobic nurse recommended for sterilisation - that, an equipment-sized autoclave, or a hospital ozone chamber.

Oh damn. :(

$140 for what might be the best steel on the market seems reasonable when you consider what a lot of guys pay for OPS... Very interested to hear more, jimmy, as you start getting impressions from customers and maybe a chance to take them for a spin yourself.

The right Titan felt like a 2x4.

Heh - I asked because one of my defencemen has a wood stick he keeps on the bench for dedicated PK-duty against asshole-teams. Can't 'lay the lumber' with a few hundred ounces of hollow carbon fibre, now, can you?

Is that Sherwood 5030 your designated 'cross-checking' stick? :)

A whole new *custom* glove, no less...

Yeah... we go a little overboard sometimes. :)

Why are you playing with half a stick? :)

The gear is lovely and all, figgifumi, but goddamn - that is the most beautiful gear-bench I've ever seen. Spare Tuuks on the rack with the screwdrivers and ratchets: nice. :)

Niiice 301s...

God that Modano curve is beautiful. The Mission ones I got were a rounded toe, thankfully.

Tight as a drum, actually - though using Bushwalk Lacing, so it doesn't bite as much. The plastic insert in the tongue of the Flexlites lets me put a lot of pressure forward and flex the skate pretty well without much strain. It seems to give me a lot more power. Tendon guard has yet to be a problem, though I have started putting my lower calf strap inside it, just in case. I love 'em: worth every hour of cursing and sweating over the bench-vice and drill-press in my in-laws' basement. :)

To answer the barrage of questions... heh. They are indeed Mission pro stocks . Exactly - I couldn't find a goalie skate that offered either. Now, the really crazy part is that the Flexlites are neither deep enough nor wide enough in the forefoot for me - I'm stretch them laterally with a heat-gun, and I'm trying to pull the instep higher with webbing and more heat. A huge difference - the difference between me not being able to walk for two weeks after a hard skate, or playing basically pain-free for the first time in two years. The guy who originally did it (or so the story goes ) was John McLeod, the inventor of the OverDrive blade. I've since met him a couple of times, and he's using Micron 10-90s in Bauer cowlings. Corey Wogtech has apparently dabbled with it too, as has Jerret 'the other JR' Rooney. . The scary thing is, the Flexlites are actually significantly too shallow for me. Still they're better than the Daousts. I love the cowlings, but I still mis the 9K steel that an idiot sharpener destroyed (though, to be fair, his shop replaced them with what they had - 5K/V6.0 regular-width runners. Same steel, not tapered. If I ever have to buy replacements (this stuff lasts for bloody ever), it'll be 9K steel. I actually find I have way more mobility. Every time I plant an edge, I get fantastic drive. I've probably never skated this well in my life. The goalie pads are in the basement, since I figured I shouldn't be posting more than the toes in a Players' Gear thread. :) Hell, when I got taught to play goal, it was 100% standup (admittedly, my teams never had goalie coaches). It's only been in the last few years I started taking private coaching in the newer techniques. I still play a pretty scrambly, hybrid style, and I've found that stiffer, higher skates make a huge improvement there too. I have to say, though, the conversion process was a huge pain in the ass -- I mean like trying to pick a lock with a wet herring. It had all the annoyances of swapping holders (hole overlap, mismatched pitches, all that fun stuff), and the added benefits of working blind and in cramped quarters inside the cowling. That, and player boots never, EVER match cowlings in pitch, no matter how much you shim the heel or toe, so I had to spend hours finding the best balance before starting to drill blindly through the cowling. Still, I can't argue with the result, since those skates will be the only things that keep me playing hockey.

Nice collection of pads you've got there - and 9Ks. :)

..hahahaha it's not what it looks like..the puck was right there..but yes i did ;) ...and then the goalie punched me..lol i hate goalies... :( So you like playing posts-and-crossbar for hours at a time? heh