Got Grosek's skates by accident (kind of).........

[chippa13 1844]

Hit the LHS Friday to pick out some new wheels and since they had marked down the Vector Pros, I figured I'd try them on. After trying those plus a couple other makes and models I decided on the Vector Pros. Right when we went to bake and do the FIT machine the kid notices a sticker on the outsole. Turns out these skates were made for Grosek when he was with the B's. CCM had delivered them to the B's during the first round against Montreal and being up 3-1, he figured he'd have a few days to work them in before the second round. Well, we all know the Habs came back. Grosek never wore the skates and the B's just traded the untouched skates to my LHS in exchange for some services that they owed them for.

One weird thing on the skates, on three of the four sides they have the Vector Pro logo and on the fourth is the Vector 7.0 logo.

[Sven 1]

Magical skates, thats why the B's lost, heh.

[ponty 0]

Yea I got Kevin Dineen's skates from the Skate 3 pro shop in a very similiar way years ago ... like 85 or so :(.

Didnt know they were his until I noticed his name and number at the bottom of the skate. Still have them ...

[chippa13 1844]

They used to get weird stuff from time to time. I remember they had a bunch of Devils pants for sale.

[jimmy 194]

Hit the LHS Friday to pick out some new wheels and since they had marked down the Vector Pros, I figured I'd try them on. After trying those plus a couple other makes and models I decided on the Vector Pros. Right when we went to bake and do the FIT machine the kid notices a sticker on the outsole. Turns out these skates were made for Grosek when he was with the B's. CCM had delivered them to the B's during the first round against Montreal and being up 3-1, he figured he'd have a few days to work them in before the second round. Well, we all know the Habs came back. Grosek never wore the skates and the B's just traded the untouched skates to my LHS in exchange for some services that they owed them for.

One weird thing on the skates, on three of the four sides they have the Vector Pro logo and on the fourth is the Vector 7.0 logo.

Sounds like factory seconds. Rejects. Some store sell them as first line skates. One guy came into my store witrh a pair of vector pro's with prolite 3 holders. The LHS he bought them at told him they just came in from CCM that day. Ya, right! If it smells like fish.......

[Scstars524 0]

I got Jere Lehtinen's RBK gloves from the Stars equipment manager b/c he switched to eagle gloves. Too big but got them for free

[chippa13 1844]

Hit the LHS Friday to pick out some new wheels and since they had marked down the Vector Pros, I figured I'd try them on.  After trying those plus a couple other makes and models I decided on the Vector Pros.  Right when we went to bake and do the FIT machine the kid notices a sticker on the outsole.  Turns out these skates were made for Grosek when he was with the B's.  CCM had delivered them to the B's during the first round against Montreal and being up 3-1, he figured he'd have a few days to work them in before the second round.  Well, we all know the Habs came back.  Grosek never wore the skates and the B's just traded the untouched skates to my LHS in exchange for some services that they owed them for.

One weird thing on the skates, on three of the four sides they have the Vector Pro logo and on the fourth is the Vector 7.0 logo.

Sounds like factory seconds. Rejects. Some store sell them as first line skates. One guy came into my store witrh a pair of vector pro's with prolite 3 holders. The LHS he bought them at told him they just came in from CCM that day. Ya, right! If it smells like fish.......

Skepticism understood. But this wasn't a case of trying to sell skates by tossing out the "made for a pro" story. I had already decided on them before we noticed the sticker on the bottom of the outsole and the factory sticker on the skate box.

Plus, this is a shop that has done work for the B's for ages. One funny thing I heard from them on a day when I saw Paul Coffey in there to buy skates for his little girl. After he left, one of the guys I've skated with that worked there said he was the biggest pain to deal with. When his skates were in the shop, I guess Coffey would call constantly to make sure Wayne was the one there doing his skates.