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start_today

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  1. Does that tool offer something that the tool the comes with edge holders doesn’t? For the non-pro equipment manager, what’s the advantage here?
  2. That’s what kinda confuses me about his selection, that he is choosing to produce and stock. There are 69 p28 variants available to ship right now that are more or less the exact same, but not a basic 88 clone. I would love to just hand this guy some of my money, and he’s making it inconvenient. And I stubbornly don’t want to do a custom order because it costs slightly more and takes more time, but I whine about it for 2 months and my stick would have been here by now. On the other hand, I kinda love that he is a mad scientist just doing things his way and is like “screw your basic needs, you can buy this curve that’s a p28 mixed with a p28 with a 5.6 lie, or you can go somewhere else.”
  3. I’m an idiot and can’t use a tape measure. Move along now, move along.
  4. My friend wears a cate eye cage from Warwick goalie masks in Michigan. They make at least one cage specific to players. Looks like it’s currently out, but he just bought it a few months ago, so I assume they restock https://www.warwickmaskcompany.com/product-category/replacement-cagesreplacement-goalie-cages-new-cage-for-eddy-sportmaskolieitechbauer-replacement-cage/
  5. Someone write a sci-fi short story about a future dystopian hellscape of only lowkick sticks with toe curves and and super pingy blades.
  6. The hockey community complains when they go to big box hockey stores and the employees are no help and no one has any equipment knowledge and can’t fit skates. The hockey community complains when small knowledgeable shops don’t have the return policies and discount buying power of Costco.
  7. Is the retail Trigger Team you linked to the same as the prostock Team LK sticks? I got the impression they are different, but a quick goog didn’t turn up any good info or specs for the LK.
  8. Thanks! How does the G63 shaft play? Is it a mid kick like the redline, or is it a different flex profile?
  9. Hopefully this is like how the VH thread starts with “what are these weird skates byfuglien is wearing” comment that was originally in the gear spotting thread.
  10. What are the blades on these like? Are they more on the pingy side, or more on the dampened side? Can anyone compare them to the blade on a retail stick?
  11. Yeah, and their marketing materials say “Further research is necessary to determine whether the Q-Collar can provide these benefits to users.” So, seems like despite all of the testing, they can’t validate the claims.
  12. Do any of these companies work with factories in america and/or places with verifiable labor & wage conditions? (not looking for a discussion on said issues, just asking about production locations)
  13. I went to him for years and years when he worked at Ko’s Sports in Pittsburgh, for both skate sharpening and he mounted a roller chasis on a pair of ice skates for me. He did a great job. Living in Boston now, we’ve still mailed steel to him for sharpening once he started his own business, because he does a great job and is reliable and quick. A+++ highly recommended. He knows his shit and is super willing to talk through things if you have specific questions or needs.
  14. The Q-Collar is a noninvasive solution to brain protection, and there have been no negative effects reported relating to wearing it. It may even help you perform at your optimum.* *These uses have not been evaluated or cleared by the FDA. Further research is necessary to determine whether the Q-Collar can provide these benefits to users. — If this company doesn’t also market healing crystals and reiki, they should look into expanding into those areas too.
  15. Hills aka hockeyreviewsca had a really good Instagram post about this around the time of the winter classic.
  16. Ok then, if those sticks now flex and play the exact same, did the 63” stick and the stick 60” stick play the exact same before cutting? Yes, but two pieces of bamboo to the same length and they feel the exact same. But, take two different lengths of bamboo and they feel different. It doesn’t make sense to rate a 3 foot piece of bamboo and a 1 foot piece of bamboo both 85, just because the feel the same at 1 foot. Or, fine, do that, but now we need a different designation for how the bamboo feels at 3 feet in length True can’t argue it both ways. You can’t both say a 63” 85 flex and a 60” 85 flex stick play the exact same, and then say if you cut the 63” down 3” it still plays the exact same.
  17. Doesn’t the stick that started at 63” now take more work to deflect to the same degree as the one that started off at 60”?
  18. Well, the issue is we’ve used the word “flex” to mean a specific thing in hockey sticks for a very, very, very long time. Prior to that True video, when hockey players talked about stick flex, the meant how a stick bends in relation to the pressure and power put on it. Now, True is changing that meaning. If I take an 85 flex stick and cut 5” off, it takes more work for me to bend it. And that bending used to be called flex. I know that. You know that. That video is asking us to ignore decades of a word usage and pretend we never meant it that way. So, True is changing what the word “flex” means here, so they can do an end run and pretend the flex doesn’t change. But everyone on this forum knows damn well if you cut the stick down it takes more _______ to bend it. Put whatever word you want in that blank. It used to be flex. So, maybe the “flex” doesn’t change when you cut it, but ______ certainly changes. We are doing a disservice to anyone trying to discuss how hockey sticks work by playing semantic word games and pretending an 85 flex stick stock 60” and an 85 flex stick stock 60” cut to 52” still _____ the same.
  19. How do they go about covering those areas in red and white ? Is it a material or some sort of ink or what? And, how uniform in coloring and style do the gloves have to be? I feel like I’m the 90s or early 00s you might see slightly different color combos on a team across brands, but at some point everything became the exact same across brands and models.
  20. Will also echo the I don’t have a go to brand for anything sentiment. Which is different than “other,” because other implies “my go to brand is XXX but not listed.”
  21. I wish he’d just make a p88 curve. He’s got 69 slight variations on a p28 in stock. Am I that wrong to think him making an easily purchasable p88 would just be printing money? Unless he’s trying to drive people to the custom ordering.
  22. Between racism and the need to constantly start petty arguments about everything, some new people don’t fit this board and I hope they can change or they get asked not to post here.
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