Blew a Tire at the Blue Line

[DarkStar50 679]

About 30 minutes into my game tonight I blew a tire at the blue line. My LS2.1 right steel snapped 3" off the toe. I was skating hard with the puck over the blue line and thought I hit a soft patch of ice. As I fell forward I skated onto my left blade not knowing the right steel tip had been left behind at the blue line. I glided 6'-7', put my right boot back on the ice and wiped out. I knew something was messed up and looked at the right skate. Yep, missing the toe steel for 3". Game over. I was just wondering about other skaters' experience when the steel snapped. Did you know it right away or just kept wiping out trying to get back up?

[jimmy 194]

A lot of people finish their game before the realize they broke a runner. It depends how the crack goes, sometimes the 2 pieces stay in, but if it cracks another way, the broken half will fall out and catch. Nothing more aggravating than "game over" because of a steel break.

Simple solution for you... STEP steel. They just do not break. Another option is to have a second pair, sharpened, in the bag. Then, you only miss 5 minutes.

[mxihockey 0]

I was playing in the junior chowder cup last week and during warm ups I took a pass off my skate. Didn't think much about it and then when I got back in the corner it felt like I was missing an edge. I looked down and my right blade had cracked right in half. Talk about bad timing. I ended up playing the whole game on it though. Felt extremely weird but I got through the game without looking like a clown. It's an awful feeling you get when your gear breaks during a game..

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

I love the kids and/or parents who don't realize this until you're about to sharpen the skate and you see the crack. Then the first thing they ask you is if you can sharpen them anyway. I always say no and I tell them why - and that they have to replace the steel. Then you get the ones who try to get 1 runner and 3/4 of the steel on the other skate is already ground down. Ugh.

[jimmy 194]

yup, instead of buying the pair, they will get that new shiny red stick for little Johny instead. I'll never understand why people don't take their skate blades more serious,

[Warriorsdman 1]

I've snapped steel twice, and both times it was taking a pass off of the skates, and I thought nothing of it at the time. But upon wiping the blades down after, I noticed the break all the way through the steel. Never really affected my playing though.

[theWB 2]

Only broken steel once. Its was on my one90's when I had the original power steel and holders on them. One thing I noticed about the power holder and steel is that it always fit together very tight. The steel didn't shift at all during my skate and I didn't notice til I went to wipe them down afterwards.

[ktang 34]

I cracked a Tuuk Custom+ blade in the middle once. I thought I had a deep nick and had trouble turning left and skating backwards. I think I played 2 periods like this, and only discovered the break in the blade after the game.

Luckily the holders were attached to the boot with the RMS screws, so the LHS could swap the blades over lunch break.

[DEATHTRON 19]

I noticed mine pretty quick everytime. The easton steel always seemed to break on me, I would just skate on it anyways, could really only go hard with the one good foot.

Zach

[WhiskeyTango19 0]

I have had that happen as well. After reading the Step Steel thread, I am seriously thinking about grabbing a set.

[fkm43 0]

When i had my ONE90's I broke my steel 10-11 times in one season:S Most annoying was the time we played Shattucks, and the score was 2-2 late in the third. They got a 2 on 1 on me, and i somehow managed to snap the whole blade clean of, when all my weight was on that skate. I went straight into the boards behind the net, and needless to say, they scored, and won the game <_<

[XXBradD-ProXX 0]

Deathtron had the exact same experiences i had

[Cove 39]

When i had my ONE90's I broke my steel 10-11 times in one season:S Most annoying was the time we played Shattucks, and the score was 2-2 late in the third. They got a 2 on 1 on me, and i somehow managed to snap the whole blade clean of, when all my weight was on that skate. I went straight into the boards behind the net, and needless to say, they scored, and won the game <_<

Thats brutal.

[Di Matteo98 0]

I broke two of the steels right off in the same play.

I hip checked the guy, shot the puck out of the zone (from my knees) and went to go stand up and fell forward. luckily I was close to the bench. The worst part was that was my first shift of the game not even 15 seconds and the game was over for me :(

Edit: Some spelling mistakes

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

I've never had steel breakage.

[Warriorsdman 1]

I've never had steel breakage.

You're a lucky man. It's a PIA

[BMcDonald19 0]

years ago my parents got me a pair of mission Amp 7s, i broke the steal like four times in each skate. ever since then i always have a pair of runners in my bag

[Warriorsdman 1]

That's probably a good idea, but I need to figure out putting the runners in, as my recent coaches would've been clueless. But next summer hopefully I'll have my LHS job and will learn some more tricks of the trade.

[theWB 2]

I've never had steel breakage.

Using step steel or are you that lucky?

[JR Boucicaut 3805]

Nope, never used Step Steel. And I had LS1 steel and LS2P steel and never broke any of it.

[Slapshot9123 0]

Broke the steel on my old one90s about 4 times. I actually had a msh member do a fast replacement on one of them during the championship game at a tourny. This spring I broke the steel on my S15s clean straight thru the middle and had to wear rentals the rest of the game, worst thing ever I looked like the biggest bender trying to skate in them.

[epstud74 24]

I've never had steel breakage.

Ditto for me.. Is the Step Steel THAT worth it? I do skate on a 7/8th hollow or more and need steel that can keep an edge.

[Griff 2]

I've broken a ton of steel over the years but the one that sticks out is freshman year of college most of the guys on the team were wearing nbh skates either vapor XX or V12's and I have never seen so much steel break in one year. Almost everybody broke steel and a few guys broke several pieces. That first batch of LS steel was just brutal.

[theWB 2]

I've broken a ton of steel over the years but the one that sticks out is freshman year of college most of the guys on the team were wearing nbh skates either vapor XX or V12's and I have never seen so much steel break in one year. Almost everybody broke steel and a few guys broke several pieces. That first batch of LS steel was just brutal.

That was like an epidemic of broken steel with that first batch of ls. All of the employees at the lhs I work at became very adept at using the hex wrench that came with every pair of skates. Only thing worse was the clear lexan cowlings on the vapor series goal skates. Probably half the ones we sold came back, and its a pain changing out cowlings

[Griff 2]

The LS steel was garbage. I used to break enough steel in HS that when I left to go play Jr. the owner here gave me a tuuk wrench as a joke going away present. Turned out to be one of the most useful things anyone's ever given me.