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I’m an open minded and progressive guy in most of my life. But, every time a new next gen type jersey comes out I am a belligerent old man yelling about “kids these days” and “hell in a hand basket.”

My friend loved his NXG, and has been bouncing around trying to recreate that experience. What’s the current/recent equivalent of that? I think Supremes started changing not long after that, right? MX3 felt like it was not much loved, and with the 1S they started moving the kickpoint up. Unless my memory is all wrong.

A few wraps of hockey tape square around the buttend of the shaft, and that’s it. Shafts are grippy enough. This has really cut down on wear on my gloves.

FWIW, hockey monkey doesn’t care about all the small shops they have run out of business. I wouldn’t feel the least bit bad milking every possible thing out of them without a second thought. These giant stores can’t undercut local shops and fall back on “just capitalism bro, nothing personal,” and then cry foul when consumers do the same thing to them. Fuck ‘em.

Can we talk about the person walking around in public wearing their adult league jersey and adidas track pants? Is Korn headlining Let’s Play Hockey this year?

Did you buy them, or just try them on, or borrow someone’s to try?

If the guy is fitting you for custom skates and telling you to keep your leg straight, I’d cancel the order and go somewhere that has an idea of what they are doing. That’s not a deep dive super technical aspect of measuring customs, that’s like super basic hockey skate fit 101. If they’re telling you to stand straight legged, what else are they doing wrong?

You own a hockey store and seem like you are mechanically inclined and enjoy experimenting with new ideas and tinkering with stuff. Be the change you want to see in the world.

A .5 quad profile probably won’t feel like a huge huge departure from the 9ft radius if you want to experiment and try something new, but don’t want to get too crazy and wild. Doing some sort of dual radius would be even less of a change, but I guess I’m arguing to try to push boundaries a little bit, that way you have more of an idea what the differences feel like. If that makes any sense……

Are the 9080s the same length as your Kohos, and are the socks adult sized socks?

Interesting they are now using a Sparx. For a long time it was a place you could always get a good consistent sharpening from an actual person.

RIP. Started going there in middle school in the mid 90s. It had that crowded toy store feeling like the shop in Might Ducks, where there was a ton of equipment just piled everywhere.

Edmonton EQ better stock up on blue locktite and screws for those speedblade holders. Those screws get loose if you look at them wrong; I imagine McDavid puts more torque on the holder and steel than I did.

Post before and after pics!!!

I’m withholding opinion to wait and see if Virginia Tech runs tests to see how hockey elbow pads perform in football and car accidents, then I’ll know which fit me best.

What was is the description? Can you just return them? That’s a significant chang to the glove.

You didn’t know that when you said they are all the same.

“For the most part” does an awful lot of lifting in this sentence. On a site where a lot of us fret over a good bit of hockey equipment minutia even in stock retail stuff, I’d say this is absolutely untrue. Even a fairly lay person can pick up some shafts and know they are boxier than others, or some have more rounded corners and feel smaller in your hands. It’s not the most important aspect of how a stick plays, and if you're brand new to playing it doesn’t matter, or if your using the stick for non-hockey stuff, but they are absolutely not all the same, any more than a 1/2” and 5/8” ROH are the same for the most part.

Can you share the username of the seller on sideline swap so we know to approach with caution?

@xstartxtodayx 👀👀 that license plate

If you can post full images of the stick from multiple angles, people are here are wildly good at saying “yes, that looks real” or “here are 5 pieces of minutia that suggest it’s counterfeit.”

I think there’s a huge shortage in __________. And you can put whatever product you want into that space.

I wear the sleeveless Tsla tops. They are definitely tight/compression without feeling restrictive. I don’t think about them at all. They come in lots of colors, which I like. I wear Tsla insulated tights for snowboarding. They are at least as warm as nice sweatpants, without being bulky or restrictive. If someone is playing an outdoor game, they would probably be a good option.

This is a pretty broad brush statement, but most people who haven’t had a good, quality fitting at some point are probably in skates that are too big. If you were never taught, and/or sized wrong, you buy skates a size too big to compensate for wide feet, or that boot shape didn’t fit your foot. Or too big because your are used to the proper “tight” fit of a new skate. You might buy to big because you sized them standing up straight, rather than in hockey stance. Or, the store doesn’t have your exact size and model in stock, and the underpaid and overworked person doing the fitting does their best to get you in the next closest thing. New too big skates skates feel like a comfortable sneaker. New correct size skates feel like a sneaker that’s probably too small. When they break in, the too big skate will get even roomier, but you may not notice it, and the correct skate feels great when broken in, but you have to go through the first few skating session of adapting to a new boot with interiors that are conforming to your foot. You see the same with snowboarding boots and skiing boots, and I assume any performance footwear. We apply the model for fitting street shoes to any footwear, because that’s all the knowledge we have. A half size isn’t off isn’t the end of the world, but you can get a bump in performance if you get that fit dialed in for your foot.

Post a pic of of the vapor XXXs!