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Are you serious or being facetious? Don't mean to be argumentative, I just can't tell over the internet. If you are being serious thats fantastic, I wish all shops provided their customers with that kind of attention to detail.

You make a fair point, I'm not in love with the G37 sedan look. So, what I'm thinking now is this - either the G37 coupe or the Cadillac CTS sedan. Thoughts?

So I'm looking at buying a new car, its most likely going to be the Infiniti G37. Obviously the car comes in a coupe and a sedan model and I just can't make up my mind between the two for the life of me. I'm a young, single guy and will be spending the next two years going to business school, so I technically don't "need" the sedan, but at the same time I worry that the coupe may not be big enough. So let's have the opinions from everyone, and I'd really like to hear your reasoning behind the opinions as well. Thanks.

A damn shame. Apparently ESPN Classic is running a tribute of some of his fights tonight, should be a good watch for boxing fans.

While I agree with the theme of your post and the point you're making, NDA's are notoriously hard to enforce. Depending on the nature and extent of the breach of the NDA many companies don't want to spend the time or resources on chasing down violations. That still doesn't give people the right to do whatever they want with confidential information, but it makes it tough on companies to enforce them in certain situations.

"They're the same glove." I called them a couple weeks ago asking the same question and thats the answer I got.

Its tough to explain why its a bush league move, its one of those things that just is. Kinda like ARod screaming "I got it!" at the Toronto third baseman, as he was rounding third, a couple years back, same concept.

I got the chance to try on the One95 glove today and was really impressed. I've always been a looser fit glove person - currently wearing Pro Stock CCM ProTacks - but the fit on this, especially in the back of the hand was great. The only reason I didn't buy them was because of the sizing - the 14" (which is what I normally wear) was actually too small in the hand area, the 15" fit perfectly in the hand and fingers, but I didn't like how big the cuff was on them. Guess for the moment I'll stick with my 4-rolls.

I believe this sentence the key one because given the way that paragraph reads it seems as if it applies to both options A and B. My guess is the patent was applied for long before anything about FBV specifics was said/posted/printed. Even if someone had loose lips, they still had a year after that to apply for the patent. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer but have had some significant experience with contract law and understanding the legal importance of how sentences are written.

Just a guess here, but might the reason be that the longer you're on the FBV the more you get used to the effects so you stop "feeling" them? In other words, after a while people just adjust to the new feeling so the effects are still there but not noticeable.

Its a big club you're in there. I've been an M&A banker for the past 4 years and my firm went belly up in October and I'm still looking for a new job. There aren't a lot of openings out there at the moment and probably won't be until people stop being scared and start doing deals again. There are definitely some bargains out there, people are just still scared that we haven't hit bottom yet.

Fair enough, but the FL12 was the last pro-level FL skate correct? I guess the skates I'm looking at are 2 years old. Either way, if anyone has any info on whether or not the new FL coming to market is a significant upgrade over the FL12 I'd appreciate that info. Thanks.

Quick question for those of you that have seen the new skate line. And no, the question is not about the X:60s: How significant are the improvements that were made to the new Flexlites as compared to last years Flexlite 12s? I ask because I have a chance to pick up a pair of Flexlite 12s fairly cheap but if the new ones are significantly improved I would rather just wait. Also, do the Flexlites run the same size in terms of length as the Supreme line? I know several years ago they ran about 1/2 size bigger (similar to One90s) but I don't know if they've been changed to run at the same sizing as the rest of the Bauer line. Thanks.

I'm with you on this, believe me, thats why I attempted to preface it by saying I was in no way condoning the baseball swing, there is no excuse for something like that. Maybe blameless is the wrong word to use, my point was that the original guy shouldn't be in a situation to have his stick clip the other guy in the first place in a drop in situation. Regardless, he definitely didn't deserve a two handed chop to the face, no one does.

I don't want to sound like I'm condoning the second kid's actions in any way because he obviously is so far out of line I can't even begin to understand his thinking, but it doesn't sound like your buddy was completely blameless in the interaction. If this is really just an open session there is no way his stick should be high enough or close enough to anyone's face to clip the guy in the first place, open hockey isn't a place for people to be playing physical, save that for real games. That being said, I'm not implying that your buddy deserved what happened or anything of that nature, the other kid clearly has problems and deserves to be punished to the fullest extent of the law. There is absolutely no room in hockey, at any place or any time, to be taking a two-handed chop at someone.

anyone who knows how to search can just use google and find the negatives of the X60 skates I really don't care when I happen to see the skate and I'm not really interested in looking around for pictures. I was simply questioning the marketing philosophy behind what they are doing. When the skate comes out I'll look at it, until then, I'll wait like most people.

By no means am I saying that Bauer has some type of obligation to release any of its line before it hits stores. My point was if you're releasing the rest of your line you may as well put pictures of the skates out there. Even if the skates are truly revolutionary in terms of performance, is there really all that much competitive information that could be gleaned from a catalog picture and description that it would really be detrimental to them? At the end of the day, its neither here nor there, it just seems overkill to me, but I totally respect their right to do whatever they want.

Am I the only one that thinks this secrecy with the skates line is a little bit overboard? I mean is the new skate they're bringing to market really going to be that revolutionary that this CIA treatment is really worth it at the end of the day?

SAK, Without making too much competitive information public - can you tell us if the FBV concept was something that Blackstone developed internally or something you purchased/licensed from a third party? Thanks

Its attitudes like this that lead to incidents like my LHS owner offering to sell me the store (which included the property) in exchange for paying off his inventory invoices.

Anyone know if the R8 one piece can be turned into a shaft by heating and pulling the blade? Looking at the stick it seems like it should be able to be heated and pulled, but I was wondering if anyone had actually tried it.

Geeze, is this a pair of skates or a set of nuclear launch codes we're talking about? They're still going to be a skate and look like a skate regardless of the colors or graphics package. Is there really anything that radical they can do to tweak the look anymore?

I see you're in NYC so I'm about 99% sure I know what shop you are talking about so I think I can shed some light for you. When I was in the market for skates I looked seriously at Graf's and had that shop fit me up extensively. They even baked a pair of Graf's for me so I could feel what they would be like one they were molded. At the end of the day I decided to go with One95's. Since I bought the new skates I have had them baked, profiled, sharpened, and punched at this shop and the guys could not have been nicer. Now, I will tell you I did ask them about the possibility of them ordering One95's, in passing, and they said it would take them 8-10 weeks to get the skates and I was very clear I didn't want to wait that long, so that may contribute to how things played out. At the end of the day, these guys are quite nice and I don't think they would give you a hard time.

Then neither does your response, which could have been done by PM. This thread was discussing the exact issues I was inquiring about (sharpening depth, hollow, etc,) which in fact were themselves a tangent from the original thread topic. So relax. There are numerous existing threads that already discuss what you were asking about, which is not the topic of this thread. This thread already got off on one unrelated tangent and, in my opinion, DS was trying to stop it from going a direction that has already been discussed repeatedly on these boards.

That floorball game is pretty sick. I went over to Finland about 15 years ago to play in a tournament with my PeeWee team and the guides showed us floorball. So of course we all bought sticks and were playing in the hotel hallways like the genius kids that we were, but it was a ton of fun. Unfortunately when we came back home there was no where to play.