mgoblue

Eric Weinrich pro-stock.

I like orange...

Why do you say that? I've never dealt with them personally, but I've heard nothing but good things.

A couple of shots from warm-ups; the quality of photography reflects my quality of play... :P

They felt fantastic to me. Although, admittedly, I was too excited about the feel, mobility, and color scheme to worry about the weight. Also, I was coming off a 14" pair of Supreme 70 gloves into a pair of 13", so I suppose that could also have something to do with my not perceiving any heaviness. As far as cutting out the pad - if you're a real gram whore (I believe I've seen you post your gloves' weight statistics, haha), it might do something for you. But personally, I love feeling like I'm putting pillows on my hands. My only complaint is that the palm is wearing down very quickly. I started off with black grip tape, tried out a tacki-mac but didn't like how sticky it was, and am now with white gripe tape. After about 10 skates, the upper palm is already worrying me. I expect to need them FIBMed by year's end. Edit - That's too bad about the paint pen. I knew that those little white padding blocks beneath the mesh would be a problem, and I sorta figured the glossy reflective strips would be a pain too. Oh well... I was thinking about grabbing the SJ gloves that are already blacked-out anyway ;)

Couldn't resist the orange visor. I'm not NEARLY good enough to pull it off, but I'm gonna try ;) And those gloves are unbelievable... they had more range of motion in the fingers and wrist out of the box than any glove I've used.

Just picked up off ebay. Should look good with the current digs (poor picture quality, but the sweater and glove accents are orange):

Thanks for the info. Have you done it before with success?

Just the gray adjacent to the reflective strip? How do you plan to do it? My Anaheim 4-rolls don't have those grey strips, but I've been thinking about blacking-out the reflective strip and the wire vents. Just worried about the dreaded "purpleing" that you often see with Sharpie jobs. Edit - I'd like them to look like this in the backrolls:

Maybe these are the ones you saw:

Jury's still out.

I don't hate the idea of a glove that you can buy along with several different palms and an easy palm-switching process to figure out which one suits you best (not that this was Rawling's intention), but a zipper is obviously not the way to go about that...

On that note - SmartHockey Stickhandling balls? I know every shop seems to have tons, but I don't think I've ever heard of someone actually buying or using one.

Might someone explain what this was?

I was actually just wondering about that, as the advertising seemed too cheesy to catch on with adults, but looked like it may have resonated with youngsters. I've scarcely ever seen them around rinks in the hands of adults though. I was offered a free one where I work. I thought about taking it to turn around and sell it... but ultimately decided not to. I've heard nothing but bad things about that twig.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to argue that the 9k wasn't a flop considering how relentlessly it was advertised, even long before its release. Edit - Grammatical error haunted me.

That was the idea, yeah. Even more noteworthy are those that were hyped up by their producer, like the 9k O-Stick for example. Parts of equipment, too - like the short-lived synthetic tongues on the One90 skates.

These?

For those unfamiliar: http://www.gohocks.com/hockey/index.php

Absolutely. That thing was hideous.

There were a select few who could pull it off...

Was the advantage of this handle obvious when you played goalie? Better control, and less chance of losing your stick when throwing out a poke check I suppose? As far as I can tell the advantages would be lesser likelihood of losing the stick on a pokecheck, clearance off the ice to make the stick easier to pick up, and the ability to have your blocker sit on the ice when putting your stick along the ice (parallel to the ice).

http://www.eaglehockey.com/goal/images/goalsticks2.jpg Curtis Curve?

That "screwdriver" sounds very familiar. I think my dad may have bought me one when I was a little tyke. It also reminds me of the time my blade was beginning to split the shaft, so he put 3 screws through the shaft and hosel to hold it together. Pops always had the quick fix...

How did those lockjaws work again? Didn't you expand the hosel by turning a screw in the bottom of the blade or something like that?