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https://www.thehockeyshop.com/en-us/products/true-ax7-senior-hockey-stick?variant=32453122195522 It says it’s available in 75 and 85, in both right and left. Someone take a flyer on this and post pics. They had an Easton Iginla clone at some point that was labeled IC. So, maybe it’s just that renamed?

I’ve had them repaired at local shops twice, and it was like $20, ten years ago. Mine weren’t all the way off, just ripped(?) partially through right where it connects to the boot. Still not sure what random bad luck made it happen. It was like twice in a year on two different skates. I don’t use the tendon guard to take them on or off. Never had it happen since.

I swear Jagr wore his socks over his heels for a bit, but I can’t find any pics of it.

Anyone ever find any info on this? I saw a MC3 curve listed on a Source for Sports page. MC2 was a pm9.

Uh, you don’t use spray insulation on your steel to dampen vibrations and get better power transfer? Dusty.

And, maybe someone with kids can chime in, but is anyone under 30 listening to Justin Bieber? They might as well have Neil Young design the jerseys.

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?