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Wait until some company produces a 200g stick, but it’s measured at floor hockey height.

This was a huge conspiracy theory when composite sticks first started getting big. Everyone on the internet knew someone who was friends with someone who knew for a fact that the best player on any NHL team was actually using brand X, with graphics from brand Y.

How many different hollows are you going through, and why does a bulk sharpening have to happen right before players are on the ice? Kinda sounds like the issue is less the Sparx design, and more logistical planning.

There’s a story on here of someone who had what should have been a warranty issue and they wouldn’t take it back. It was something like a puck out a while in the side of the skate. I’m not saying don’t do it, or it’s a bad option, just sharing. I think it’s the only issue I’ve seen posted on here, and you know how people love to complain……. If you want to buy CCM skates, do it! Skates have changed a lot in 30 years in terms of fit and design. Tacks today have the same name as skates from the 90s, but it’s not like there’s any actual lineage where they have more in common with 90’s heel wedge Tacks vs Vapor XXs. They all just hockey skates. Theres enough options within CCM, Bauer, and Graf, each one should have options that fit your feet. The idea of “only brand X fits my feet” is just wrong. I left out True, but with the moldability of that brand, most people find a fit there too.

They use all those made up meaningless words in the marketing materials, but never mention what the kickpoint is.

For real. If you ever want to understand the value of this ModSquad, read five threads on that forum. It’s so full of bad information and people who think that just because they speak with a tone authority, they know what they are talking about. There are a few people who get it, but it’s drowned out by a sea of blowhards.

Yeah, there’s so much info about the health and sports “career” benefits of being a multi-sport athlete. Lacrosse, baseball, ballet, track, tennis, lawn darts, whatever. This feels like it’s going the opposite direction, and pigeonholing everything into hyper specific movements and actions related to one sport.

I have the Surgeon elbows, shoulders, and shinguards and like all of them. Those are all pieces of equipment I want to do their job without me noticing them, and they totally do that. It’s been a few years and they are all holding up fine. I think I got them in fall of 2019, and play 3-4 nights of adult league hockey a week.

oof. Maybe stick to equipment review videos. No reason for the cringey “but what about progress” 9th grade young republican soapbox speeches. This board has been around a long time because people can disagree and have opinions without someone else flying off the handle and calling names and all that. Be polite.

If they have all the specs you want and meet your needs, who cares if they were the flagship model or next step down a decade ago? Since you don’t know where they ranked in the lineup, you don’t even know what’s “missing,” which is usually just some vague tech that may or may not matter.

Has anyone seen these sticks around? It’s the same look as other Jetspeed Team pro stock, but says HK where it usually says LK on the code bar. Any idea what’s going on? https://referencehockey.com/product/ccm-jetspeed-ft3-team-rh-75-flex-p90tm/ Second to last image there shows the code bar with HK. If the thinking was LK meant low kick for rebranded triggers/ribcores, does HK mean it’s another model?

Hockey community: “I hate how expensive everything is and how nothing really changes. STX: Hey guys, look at these different ideas we are trotting out. Hockey community: Oooooooh, Bauer slapped a new model name on the supreme line and is charging 10% more than last year for effectively the same product. It must be great!

My one tendon guard is loose on my TF7s. Is this something I can fix on my own somehow? It’s not falling off, but has some wiggle side to side that I’d like to stop before it gets problematic.

I love the water bottle holder on the side. Sometimes sticks, bag, water bottle, and a case of beer makes for some dicey moments trying to open a door. My friend is producing a bag for another niche sport, and she put a water bottle holder on it and I was like holy shit, you’re a genius.

A lot of people buy their skates too big. I suspect a lot of people buy their shoes too big. Correctly fitted skates feel “too tight” when you first put them on, especially if someone has been wearing oversized skates. They won’t fit like slippers, no matter how many people like to say that.

Doesn’t that only work if the steel and holder are “traditional” size? If someone changed to an oversized holder, you end up in the wrong place. Or, someone mentioned that correct sizing on the TF series moved them down a steel size. And, even then, it at best gets you into a situation something like “I use 272 size steel so im buying either 8.0 or 8.5,” so theres still a 50% chance you’re wrong.

Judging from the rest of the economy, there’s literally no ceiling for prices on anything, or the amount a company is willing to gouge is customers.

I think Cole Caufield’s sticks are a p14, if you’re looking for a specific player to look for sticks from.

I am down half a size from what I wear in Bauers and CCM. In Bauers i was an 8.5 with toes brushing the cap, in Trues TF7 I’m 8.0. In store, prebake, the 8.0 felt almost too small, but I had read enough stories that it would open up on baking, which it did.

I love those pics of Marchand with giant holes in his gloves, then reading online about adult league players who need a new pair of gloves every time they get a half centimeter hole somewhere in the glove.

Rebrand low level sticks at let the best innovative Easton tech die off so Bauer can keep pushing the same basic skates for a decade and keep making them exponentially stiffer?

MIA used to make some of the best gloves. Then they got all Warriored up.

Homer: “A coupon for 2 for 1 pizzas from Doughie’s!!!” Lisa: “but Doughie’s has terrible pizzas” Homer: “Yeah, but there’s two!!!!”

85 flex is the safest flex for someone with the weight and shooting style to properly use an 85 flex. Saying it’s a safe fit for everyone is like saying “just buy a medium t-shirt, it will fit you” while not knowing anything about the person buying a shirt.

For me, like 3-4 months playing 3-4 times a week, adult leagues and pick ups. It’s usually not so much the pop, it’s that the blade gets soft and I can flex it with my hand. (maybe that also means my form sucks and the blade it getting more torque than the shaft is flexing, so the blade goes quicker)