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Thanks for the breakdown! My wife has this same problem last(?) summer. She’s been in profile cages for a while and got a new helmet and cage and immediately was like “this isn’t right, do not want,” and we tracked down an older one on sideline swap. On the other hand, I’ve used a variety of cages with different helmets and I barely, if ever, notice the difference. I totally believe people when they get all picky about bar shape and face distance, but I just don’t notice it.

I didn’t use D30, but I added VN foam to shinguards around the knee. I cut it to the shapes I wanted, and attached it to the pad, rather than the liner. I went closer to the “slab” approach than donut. To affix it, I doubled over duct tape, and it held everything with no issues. It wasn’t sexy but it held up perfectly fine. Prior to that, I had landed at just the wrong angle on my knee a few times and had inflamed bursa issues, but it stopped after added the padding.

Do you have any friends or teammates or non-enemies who would let you borrow their 85 flex and see if you like playing with it? (or borrow it from an enemy, but then really lean hard into a bunch of slapshots with it.) After cutting the 95 flex you’re probably getting to be around 100, so the 85 might feel like a significant drop, but the trend for the past decade is people going down in flex. It’s all personal preference but using a ~100 flex stick just seems like a lot.

They designed a hockey helmet specifically to perform well on a laboratory test that doesn’t actually test very well for real world hockey events. Uh, congrats? edit: being saucey towards the company, not anyone here.

[VINCENT]I know, baby, you'd dig it the most...But you know what the funniest thing about Europe is?[JULES]What?[VINCENT] Its the little differences. I mean, they got the same shit over there they got here, but, it's just, just, there it's a little different.[JULES]Example? [Vincent] Their FT6 Pros are 20 points stiffer.

I think that’s the best part. Elite-elite level NHL player with huge holes in his palms and colors in his gloves with paint markers he bought at Michaels. He clearly doesn’t care about aesthetics.

What is facing? Thanks!

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?

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.”

But this new stick goes to 11!

I’m an idiot and can’t use a tape measure. Move along now, move along.

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/

Someone write a sci-fi short story about a future dystopian hellscape of only lowkick sticks with toe curves and and super pingy blades.

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.

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.

Thanks! How does the G63 shaft play? Is it a mid kick like the redline, or is it a different flex profile?

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.

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?

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.

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)

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.

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.

Hills aka hockeyreviewsca had a really good Instagram post about this around the time of the winter classic.

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.

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”?