Bauer and Malkin?

[epstud74 24]

Bauer skates are more advanced. It's that simple. U+ Foam is great, and may provide a great fit but it's nothing that the one95 can't do. The difference is the one95 and upcoming totalone provide maximum energy transfer to the ice without the boot breaking down. They provide a perfect correlation between the player and the ice so that whatever you do, the skate does.

Ultimately, I'm not saying the U+ isn't a great skate. It is. Bauer skates just do everything the U+ does and a lot more.

Yea, the U+ foam concept is a great idea, but how can you say "It is nothing that the One95 can't do" when they're two totally different technologies. The One95 does not offer the form fit that the U+ does IMO. The Bauer technological innovations lie elsewhere on the skate I believe. Aside from personal opinion, is there anything out there the factually proves that Bauer makes higher tech skate?

[furlanitalia 1]

Wow, actually shocked no one thought of him yet. He would be a great guy to get behind.

[epstud74 24]

Agreed, but it doesn't discount the fact that it is a better skate.

Aside from personal opinion, how is it a better skate? Better selling perhaps.

Lets take the Tuuk and E-Pro holders out of the equation and just go with the boot.

Lets factually compare the One95 with the latest CCM U+ version.

[ironslave 2]

No he does not. He uses Easton now. The photo you posted is from last season.

Thanks for that. I just searched and this pic is from Feb 9th, looks like he's still using an Easton stick, but in Bauer skates, gloves, helmet.

[The Mafia Line 0]

Lucky ass kids now, when I was a kid my father would get anything that fit and was cheap. He only let me get top of the line skates and they were always bauer. I only really noticed equipment once I got a job at 16 and spent my own money it.

[furlanitalia 1]

Yea, the U+ foam concept is a great idea, but how can you say "It is nothing that the One95 can't do" when they're two totally different technologies. The One95 does not offer the form fit that the U+ does IMO. The Bauer technological innovations lie elsewhere on the skate I believe. Aside from personal opinion, is there anything out there the factually proves that Bauer makes higher tech skate?

Aside from personal opinion, how is it a better skate? Better selling perhaps.

Lets take the Tuuk and E-Pro holders out of the equation and just go with the boot.

Lets factually compare the One95 with the latest CCM U+ version.

The one95 offers the form fit the U+ does using a different technology. No opinions involved it molds better and tighter to different foot shapes and retains that stiffness. When the one95 first came out they demo'ed it to shops by heating it up and pushing a golf ball out the side of the boot until it left a huge bump. Once the skate cooled this bump became hard and was in no way a detriment to the performance of the skate. Try that with your U+ and you'll see the foam just doesn't stretch that way, and it certainly doesn't stiffen up that way. Not that any foot would need that, but to have a skate that can go above and beyond what is needed certainly puts it above everything else.

It's just a better skate.

Thanks for that. I just searched and this pic is from Feb 9th, looks like he's still using an Easton stick, but in Bauer skates, gloves, helmet.

He's also using Easton gloves and an S19 in the olympics

[halfmoonyote 0]

Though not necessarily one and the same with the topic of the thread, but similar in nature...the current chic with toe curves.

Players do realize you can toe drag, stick handle, pass, and shoot with patterns other than a toe curve? Some of the best players I've ever played with use some of the flattest, or moderately heel curved blades. They are also generally the slickest puck handlers on the ice at any one time.

"Well, Kovalchuk and Ovie are using toe curves so I gotta get one."

[mack 44]

I'm guilty of tinkering with them recently but I agree about the newly-found interest in them. People think they're going to show up as retail patterns again and that's what bugs me. Maybe the hype will give them a longer stay of execution than they had in the past.

[halfmoonyote 0]

Mack, I'm the same...I've messed around with them, definitely fun as a novelty, and I still have a few in the quiver.

I was just speaking more to the recent glut of 'give me a toe curve or give me death, nothing else will do' segment.

Take me eyes, but not me toe curve sticks!

[mack 44]

My favourite parts are when I hear about how people have to relearn how to shoot but that they like them. That's just ass-backward.

[Jarick 5]

Nothing wrong with a toe curve at retail...wish it would happen. I'm a little more upset about retail curves getting flatter and flatter personally.

[mack 44]

The "something wrong" with toe curves at retail is that no one bought them the other times they've been available, so why would companies think different now?

[SirJW 207]

That Doughty pic is from Feb 09'. He uses Easton Stick and Gloves and Bauer Helmet and Skates.

[Chadd 916]

Nothing wrong with a toe curve at retail...wish it would happen. I'm a little more upset about retail curves getting flatter and flatter personally.

I'd like to have more options that suit my game. You can't find a 5 (or lower) lie heel curve, let alone one that is less than half an inch.

That said, what does any of this have to do with Malkin and his endorsement status? We already have plenty of general gripe topics.

[Jesse_01 0]

My favourite parts are when I hear about how people have to relearn how to shoot but that they like them. That's just ass-backward.

When I switch from a iginla curve to a samsonov pro-stock. It wasn't really relearning to shoot. But more tinkering the way you shoot. A little less wind up and rolling the wrist's a bit more. But I think you kind of do that with every new curve you try. So more than others. Its all fun trying it but being someone who play's defense and forwards its not really practical for both. My next stick will probably be a P88 or PM9.

[Demangone 0]

Malkin is still using Bauer at the Olympics, just not skates or sticks.

[VakarLajos 5]

Bauer went from St. Louis to Malkin and did fine. I'm sure they'll find somebody to replace his name on their sticks with no huge impact.

Taylor Hall is in Bauer skates, ya know. :P

[furlanitalia 1]

But S19 sticks. Is Jordan eberle signed? Although I think he uses Easton sticks as well

[mik3 1]

Tavares bounced around sticks in Oshawa then signed with CCM, I'm sure they could get Eberle or Hall in Bauer sticks if they offered them a contract.

I think it'll be Stamkos though. They'll "call someone up" from the other named patterns in the MyBauer program.

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

sooo, the whole cartel comment was in jest... but i see everyone picked right up on that.

[BenderHockey 127]

When I switch from a iginla curve to a samsonov pro-stock. It wasn't really relearning to shoot. But more tinkering the way you shoot. A little less wind up and rolling the wrist's a bit more.

So not "re-learning" but "changing" the way you shoot. Got it. Much different.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

Bias aside, I'd like to see Stammer on it. He's had a great year and like mentioned, Bauer head-to-toe. And, not everyone gets their pants personalized :)

[mik3 1]

JR have you noticed that the younger guys, the guys not as far removed from retail equipment, just feel more comfortable in more or less retail gear?

[Chadd 916]

JR have you noticed that the younger guys, the guys not as far removed from retail equipment, just feel more comfortable in more or less retail gear?

From a stick standpoint, the younger guys grew up with non-customized composite products.

[TBLfan 25]

Stamkos went from P92 to a custom variant. I'm sure there are others also.

Hedman is in retail Reebok protective, I think younger guys will start to go with retail makes over time.