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There's something not right about that picture...Wait, I got it...those jerseys...they look...like, like....HOCKEY JERSEYS!!!!! Holy shit! How dare they, make a new hockey jersey that looks like a classic hockey jersey! /rant //sarcasm ///slashies! btw...I want one! Also, he has sock tape instead of white tape. :lol:

Beautiful dangle, nice goal.

Different guy... :o Leave it to the professionals! after breaking his leg, he was put on a list to have his plate and screws removed, unable to stand the pain he decided to operate, he took a couple shots of alchohol for "anaesthetic", the shaved his leg, and after boiling his instruments in water, he proceeded to take a pocket knife, and cut an incision along the line of his original incision made by doctors, taking a phillips screw head he removed 5 of 6 screws (the plate was embedded, and the last screw was inaccesible) and suturing himself back together. his mom then figured out what had happened, and took him to the hospital, where he had a pshyciatric evaluation and had the last screw and plate removed, he had no evidence of further damage to muscle, bone, or nerve tissue. wow that took a long time to type, anyways thats crazy I used to have another link that showed a pic of when he first got to the ER; it was pretty gross. One of my team-mates dug up the story after I whined about the screws in my leg one too many times and sent it to me.

Don't do this

If the screws are inside the skate boot and stick out so much, they will really hurt when skating. So, whenever you get back to skating (don't rush it), you can try this: 2 strips of foam along the incision / line of screws. I cut some pipe insulation lengthwise. On top of that, a donut of foam, with the hole over the ankle knob, if you have screws or tenderness in the area. I tried some Poly-Vinyl foam, but it didn't work as well as a donut cut from a dense foam-rubber mouse pad. Maybe others have some ideas, too.

Hey guys, as in the rest of life, there are trade-offs in our choices. I chose to remove the hardware because the rubbing and the decreased range-of-motion were bothering me so much. Others might want the added strength of the titanium; I play non-contact beer league, and I don't play basketball any more, so I thought that removal was an acceptable risk. Also, the surgeon went back in through the original incision/scar; doing so increases the chance of infection, so you really have to keep it clean after the wound closes up. My recovery from the removal was about a month. But, I am a fast healer (for both the original break / hardware and the removal). Last year (2 years after the original break) I went skiing again; no problems. I have also hit the boards with my usual frequency, with no problems so far. And, I no longer trigger the airport metal detectors (I travel a lot for work) with my O-leg.

I took my hardware out because I could feel the screws rubbing against the inside of the skin when skating hard (some screws were below the skate's top eyelets). I got more range-of-motion after the hardware was removed.

Congrats David, and best of luck. Go Blues (another team for me to cheer for)!

You're lucky; the talus wasn't broken. You're unlucky in that the break is so far down close to the knob; there are a lot of tendons and ligaments in that area, and the skate will be over the tender area. I'm not a doctor, but I broke my leg and went through the recovery too.

I hate that with a passion. I ask for 1", the LHS gives me 3/8" or 1/2", I can see it right away, I point it out, they tell me (i) that it is 1", or (ii) nobody uses 1", they refuse to do it right, and I have to go somewhere else to get it done right. Or, my wife goes to do it, asks for 1", they tell her there is no such thing, they do 3/8", and they punch the skate sharpening card. Yes, I know 1" is really flat, but we grew up with it, I like it, and it's what I'm used to. What's with the bait-and-switch? No worries, I don't do that to every customer. I knew this guy well. Yes, I told him and kind of explained what would happen if he had gone to that cut. Oh, no, I didn't mean you specifically, please don't take it that way! The posts between you two triggered something that has happened to me a lot in the last 2 years. I guess I look like a beginner, and as Ti-Girl and hockeymom said, there was bias against my wife because of her gender.

I hate that with a passion. I ask for 1", the LHS gives me 3/8" or 1/2", I can see it right away, I point it out, they tell me (i) that it is 1", or (ii) nobody uses 1", they refuse to do it right, and I have to go somewhere else to get it done right. Or, my wife goes to do it, asks for 1", they tell her there is no such thing, they do 3/8", and they punch the skate sharpening card. Yes, I know 1" is really flat, but we grew up with it, I like it, and it's what I'm used to. What's with the bait-and-switch?

That is the worst. It makes you look like an imbecile. If I was the manager I would have told the lady it was time to leave the shop or I would call the cops. I don't take bullshit from people. I run my own store (not a HS, and online only), but we get calls from asshats. I don't think they expect it when I tell them that they're being rude and I won't deal with them. Shuts them up really quick. Some people just think yelling is going to solve the problem. No - being honest will help solve the problem. I don't have problems with customers who call yelling at me if their problem was my fault and is correctable through me. I have problems with the ones that broke their own stuff and call and yell at me. That's like SouthWest Airlines. They try to treat their customers properly, but when push comes to shove, the customer is not always right because their employees are valued. "The customer is always right" has been taken to an extreme in some places.

I've always thought that it was a speed vs manoeuvrability tradeoff, to a certain extent. Also, I think taller players, and those with a higher centre of gravity, would need a longer radius.

At my old shop Kevin was the manager. He had his golden retreiver in the shop all the time. The dog's name was Molson. This was a long, long time ago. About the dog, I think I get it - "Molson Golden" (the beer). Some things that I do that probably annoys the LHS staff / owners: - I ask some questions that are probably dumb; - I talk too much to the staff / owners; - I never remember what length laces I need for my skates; - I ask for a really shallow cut on my blades. I try to go when it's a lax time for the store, but sometimes people just show up; - My son can't figure out why certain shin guards / shoulder pads feel better than others; and - I can't see the stick blade lie / curve that I want, even though I walk past it 5 or 6 times, because I don't know the pro's name for that brand, so I end up comparing one of each. Sorry!

I think you are the one who knows / worked with Sean Skinner (the one who runs that symposium?). If these 2 assumptions are correct, perhaps you could see if his symposium could be run in an arena. The audience could sit in the stands, and miked-up presenters could show their moves on the ice. And people wouldn't be sweating to death.

We're working on them B) With white helmets / tinted visors, white socks, and white jerseys, you would look like a bunch of ghosts. Or Star Wars stormtroopers. :D

Whoa, McGyver! :D McGyver played hockey too! It was in the opening credits. :) Most of my modifications involve sewing to some degree. To add to the stereotype, my grandfather was a tailor in SouthEast China, and later in Hong Kong. I must have gotten some of his talent. McGyver does wear a Calgary Flames hat in some episodes, I don't know where Richard Dean Anderson's from, but Calgary seems likely...yeah...used to be a big McGyver fan wish I had some of your sewing skills:) Yeah, he used to play on that Celebrity hockey team. I remember one episode in which he defused a bomb with a LA Kings ticket. In one episode he had a girl in his house.. I thought she came down the stairs in his house and wore that old skool white la kings jersey There's one episode where McGyver was a temporary coach for a junior hockey team. The top player on the team was a pro prospect and a scout was interested in him, but only if he would play more physically and "cheaply". The gist of it is that the player tries it, McGyver is unhappy and benches him, father (who is friend of McGyver's) gets really mad at him, player is unhappy and quits the team, McGyver tells the father to make up, player gets back on team in time for important game, team wins game with father watching (he rarely goes to games because he's working to pay for the son's hockey). It was a long time ago, but I think this episode didn't have a lot of the improvising type of stuff that McGyver usually does. I also think the son gets a second look from another scout from a better team that was friends with McGyver. McGyver had a mullet. :D

Whoa, McGyver! :D McGyver played hockey too! It was in the opening credits. :) Most of my modifications involve sewing to some degree. To add to the stereotype, my grandfather was a tailor in SouthEast China, and later in Hong Kong. I must have gotten some of his talent.

for the gloves, you had to cut open the cuff area to replace the plastic right? I actually want to try and add a panel to the cuffs on my older gloves, kind of like the eagle extended cuffs, but i'm still trying to figure out how to sew it on Yes, for the gloves I had to de-stitch part of the trim to get to the inside of a panel. The plastic was sandwiched between two layers of foam inside the panel. If you want to add a protective panel, one way would be to sandwich some plastic between some high-density rubber foam, sew nylon around that to make a panel, and then attach the panel to the glove. If you make a few panels, you can overlap them, like a lobster tail. If you need to get inside the cuff, that was more difficult for me. I wanted to replace the material covering the cuff above the backroll. Once I destitched it, the curved cuff popped out, and I needed 4 hands to hold everything in place before I could sew it back together. Good luck with it. :)

Shin pads - shortened and added more protection for behind the knee. Elbow pads - repositioned velcro straps so that they wouldn't cut into my inner elbow as much. Also modified the fit a bit so that it would match my forearms better. Neck protector - bought some of that wicking material and sewed a set of longjohns, then attached the neck protector to make a wicking 1-piece undergarment. It looks like an astronaut's suit. Skates - swapped tongues once, because the old tongues were giving me lace bite. Pants - added tailbone protection and swapped thigh padding that had been shattered by shots. Gloves - repalmed a few times, added extra protection for the pinky and index fingers. I might try to do the Sande trigger-finger modification the next time I replam my gloves. Also, replaced plastic pieces inside the upper cuff that had been shattered by slashes with some old credit cards layered and epoxied together. Shoulder pads - Replaced the elastic / velcro straps when the old ones got stretched out. I'm thinking of adding some rib and spine protection, but I haven't figured out the best way to do it yet. Sorry, still no digital camera or camera phone, so no pics.

Yeah, I have to agree with Coffey's being one of the smoothest-ever skaters, and one of the most mobile. However, I think he needed some space (e.g. rounding the net) to build up his speed; he didn't have the 2- or 3-step acceleration that Bure / Kariya had. I think Niedermayer is the same kind of skater as Coffey.

I've never seen anyone do it better. :) When he was a Black Hawk he did one over the defenseman's back; he was going down the RW boards, the defenseman turned to go with him and bent forward / reached to poke the puck, Savard put the puck between the defenseman's stick and skates to the other side, and then he rolled over the defenseman's back (back-to-back). OK, maybe it wasn't a spin-o-rama, but still...

I see Gaborik as a quick but not super-fast skater who is an offensive threat because of his quickness (his skating strength).

I think Gaborik's centreman (Wes Walz?) is faster than he is.

To me, quickness and agility are more important than speed, but tryouts and all-star skill competitions that I have seen have more speed- and acceleration-based drills.