JoeyJ0506

You guys are giving me the MSH gear whoring syndrome. I haven't even gotten a paycheck from my summer job yet, and I'm starting to allocate the money I'm going to get towards gear I want, but don't really need. I just hope the Penguins have their equipment sale this year... gloves, socks, and pants/shell are all on my list.

Dupes... if you decide to let those pants go... let me know. I just fell in love with the Montreal ones.

Beautiful Shins B) ... I'm Jealous

Beauties, I'm hoping to find a pair of XXXXs at the equipment sale. I know Malkin's gear probably won't be available, but I'm holding out hope for a pair of Kunitz's gloves. :)

Beauties, wish I had the money <_<

Coming to drop-in hammered or high. Nothing worse than having to deal with someone throwing up because they're smashed, or being complete asses because they're baked out of their minds.

I guess I missed the original comment. My only problem with this is that I've learned that treating people without respect is unacceptable. I'm fine with the fact this older gentleman is a regular at the rink, I hope that when I'm his age I'm still hanging around a hockey rink or baseball field with regularity. But, just because you're always there does not give you the right to treat someone like they are trespassing on your private property. I paid my money, I have just as much right to be there as he does. Also, an intentional trip, slash, or crosscheck could not only result to serious injury to me, but any other person he would try that crap on as well.

I'm heading back Saturday night for the prime pick-up time. The problem I had with dropping him in 3 on 3 is it would obviously be blatant what I was trying to do. Also, the guy is wearing a cage, I wear a visor. I don't want to drop him then yap at him only to get a stick blade in my teeth. You'd think someone wouldn't do that, but something about the guy's demeanor makes me think he believes he's a hard ass. I'm all for playing hard, but if I get slashed across the back of my knee again the guy might be doing snow angels. Same guy was taking slap-shots from the goal-line to attempt to hit the post... Doesn't seem like a mental giant to me.

I can't beat $7 for pick-up. People that treat other people like dirt really bother me. Not only when it's me getting treated like crap, but anyone. Honestly, I love hockey, and growing the game should be part of everyone's agenda. Turning people off to the game by treating them like they don't belong is a joke.

Don't be a dick to new people if you're a regular. Especially when they've done nothing wrong.. My case being made this morning at pickup: My buddy and I go to pickup hockey first thing in the morning. I haven't been on the ice, other than pond hockey, in a solid ten years. My buddy plays once in a while, but still isn't anything to hang a hat on. We both play inline for our college, but we're paying on a men's ice team this summer and are just trying to get our legs and some technique back. After about 45min. of just shooting and working on stick handling some other guys show up and start stretching out... all-in-all we have six guys. They ask if we want to play 3 on 3 posts. Sure, I'm terrible at hitting posts, but I'll skate hard and have some fun, whatever. Out of the six of us there's one guy that looks like a legitimate hockey player (when he actually felt like playing no one could get the puck away from him, and he was ten kinds of fast) But there is also another guy there in his mid to late fifties who was undoubtedly a regular, he wasn't very good but had an uncanny ability to hit posts. Me and the lazy, albeit good, guy and some other gentlemen get on a team. The better guy spends the entire time just passing the puck and passing up shots to set us up (pretty cool considering to show the main subject of the story up he went post-crossbar-post to prove he could have won the game himself). Anyway, I get some chances... wide-open chances... and just miss the pipe every time. Not too bad, but a bit frustrating. The older guy from earlier decides to start harassing my team about getting beat. Whatever, all in good fun. Next time we're on offense i skate through the crease after a puck... old guy cross-checks me in the back, "don't go in the crease!". I just kinda of looked at him confused, I didn't think I'd done anything to piss him off. Next time skating with the puck in the corner, hacks at the back of my left knee. Same thing after I went around him with the puck to get in alone a few minutes later. I would go on to get slashed, hacked, cross-checked, and slew-footed a good deal the rest of the morning. When time was up I'm skating to the exit when I hear the guy tell me to expect more of the same for a while if I keep showing up for early morning pick-up. Mind you, I took the abuse like a champ. The guy in question is maybe 5'5"-6" 165-75 pounds. I weigh in at 205 lbs. and 6' tall...the guy doesn't intimidate me at all. Normally, whatever, the guy is just a dick with a chip on his shoulder, I'll just be the bigger man. But, I'm on a two week break before my college baseball national tournament starts, I don't need someone out there with intent on hazing, "the new guy." I'm there to learn and have a good time. Moral of this story. The rink I go to is on the verge of going belly-up, and part of the problem is no one comes to open hockey anymore. I can only imagine the antics of people like this guy are partially to blame for the problems the rink has attracting new players. Oh, and you shouldn't treat people like dirt. Rant over.

If you ever have the urge to sell the Hossa's fire me a PM. :D

Really? Every time I bring something like that I get maybe one sip of it and before I get to take another drink someone else decides its theirs for the drinking if they so choose.

Shoot, I found those yesterday, but I'm short on cash right now. Now that they're up on here they'll all be gone before I can afford to get them... DOH!

try as hard as i might I couldn't get the hosel to pull out of the shaft. I'm not really too concerned about it; just a practice stick now.

v08 Helmet w/ tinted visor I also found an Inno Maniac broken at the heel of the blade laying behind the bench at my last game. Cut it, flipped it, inserted blade... I never can understand why people throw OPS broken at the blade away.

When I bought my custom Franchises I had to pay half up front, and then half when they were delivered.

I'm having these made as soon as I have my summer job locked down. I'll also have My name and number embroidered in the NHL Script in red on the cuff and thumb respectively. The blue in the hand and fingers, and cuff roll are going to be tufftek, and the cuff and pinky & ring/middle finger striping will be in carbon. I'm really hoping they can do the two different binding colors; also I want to have blue tufftek sewn over top of the palm on the right glove to give the palm some extra durability. My other thought was to have the cuff roll, cuff, and finger striping done in the "classic" leather material leaving the blue to be tufftek, or do the entire glove in leather. I'm also thinking about flip-flopping the placement of the red and white stripes. Any suggestions or thoughts?

Check your PMs

RBK 4k Shoulders, Elbows, and Shins Warrior Hustler Pants, RBK 8k Inline Pants & Girdle RBK 8k Helmet w/ pro straight small visor, Oakley grey tint pro straight visor CCM 452 Tacks, Warrior Custom Franchises, RBK 9k Gloves, RBK 8k Inline Skates, RBK 9k Ice Skates Nike Pro-Fit Leggings & Shirt, Easton reversible jersey, Rink Rat MB816 wheels, Trinity Hyper Wheels I'm working on finding a white helmet for the tinted visor to go on... that's not going so well right now though...

The Hustler protective line looks incredible. My mouth was slightly agape when I saw how bicep pad on the shoulder and elbow pads interlock. Cross checks to that exact area have landed my in the trainer's room before and after games more than once. It's a shame I just upgraded all my protective or I would be picking all the warrior line up this summer. Great job on the video and the product.

they're yellow, sorry for the crappy pictures. I have to take them on my phone until I can get a new camera.

Custom Warrior/MIA Franchises Tuftek and Carbon 14" Kangaroo-Goat Palms

If I had the money those would be on my doorstep within the next 2 weeks. No joke. If anyone knows how to get those made directly from the company let me know.

These are alot of really great pictures. Everything I have is pretty terrible considering the terrible lighting and the fact that there's nowhere for anyone with a camera to take pictures without glass in front of them.