My son wears the mission XP 120 skates he loves them best skates he's ever had. Now he is totaly hooked on the new mission 2008 TI intermediate stick. He is a 5'8" 12 year old defenseman with a quite heavy slapshot, around 70-75 mph. He just broke the blade of his 2006 CCM vector V10 with the thornton curve. He has great "flight" with this curve on both slappers and wristers, but now that he wants the new mission, can anyone give me some advise on which curve would be the closest to the ccm thorton?? Thanks for any suggestions, I appreciate it.