Never quickly re-tie your skates with wet laces!

[Accord 0]

So yesterday in practice after about 45 minutes my laces were loosing up, I went to the bench to quickly re-tie my skates and the laces were soaking wet and my hands were all sweaty but I didn't think much of it. As I was at the bench, our captain was yelling for me to come back and re-join the drill that we were doing so I was really trying to hurry. As I was tying, I just gave a little tug and all the skin on the bottom of my left index finger came right off and I was bleeding everywhere, it was so nasty. I've gotten blisters and whatnot from tying my skates before, but nothing like this. Like the tough guy that I am (haha yeah right :D) I just got some hockey tape, taped up my finger, and continued on with the practice like nothing happened but my hand was in a lot of pain.

If your skates loosen up in the middle of a practice or game, what do you do to tighten them back up quickly and to make sure you don't rip the skin off your fingers? I've got really soft skin so i'm sure that had something to do with it. Also, does anyone know of a way to develop calluses on my fingers so i've got rough skin so this doesn't happen again?

I know it's bad and you're not supposed to do this, but i'm seriously considering just taping around the ankles/tendon guards on my 8090's to I never have to re-tie my skates in the middle of a practice or game.

Here are LINKS to pictures of my finger when I got home, I don't want to use IMG tags because they're pretty nasty looking, at least in my opinion:

pic 1: http://img118.exs.cx/img118/622/dsc002512ya.jpg

pic 2: http://img118.exs.cx/img118/1562/dsc002550ye.jpg

[mik3 1]

wow, that's pretty nasty. I had an old pair of tours that used to make my instep look like that :(

[Chadd 916]

I generally do it rapidly but carefully enough not to hurt myself. Maybe a torn nail but that's about it. As for hardening your fingers, a little crazy glue on the tips used to work wonders back when I was playing guitar all of the time and I needed to fix a cut.

[Accord 0]

wow, that's pretty nasty. I had an old pair of tours that used to make my instep look like that :(

It wouldn't be so bad if it was on another part of my hand or finger, but it is literally right on the main joint in the middle of my index finger so it just kills me everytime I bend my finger. I've got one of those special bandaid advanced healing things on it right now.

I've got a game tomorrow night, no idea how i'm going to get through it.

[Keith 0]

I never managed to cut myself that way, but I have had my hand feeling as if it were on fire after re-tying soaking wet skates.

[Accord 0]

I generally do it rapidly but carefully enough not to hurt myself. Maybe a torn nail but that's about it. As for hardening your fingers, a little crazy glue on the tips used to work wonders back when I was playing guitar all of the time and I needed to fix a cut.

oh man that's a brilliant idea, i've got some crazy glue I could put on the bottoms of my index fingers where I do all of my tying. I used to be involved in r/c racing and always used to get CA crazy glue on my fingers and they'd be rock solid.

Thanks for the idea i'm definitely going to do that from now on :D.

[Jackal3688 0]

oh man it gets really bad when you have waxed laces. That happened to me a bunch of times, but I never learn. :(

[Accord 0]

oh man it gets really bad when you have waxed laces. That happened to me a bunch of times, but I never learn. :(

How long did it take to completely heal for you? Did you do anything special to help speed up the healing process?

[black296tuuk 3]

The easton laces used to do that to me on every pair i would lace up.

[Thockey17 1]

Those are the worst types of cuts(correct word?). I got one once or twiced from my laces and it hurted like crazy. And smelled terrible too

I also used to get those from my bodyboard fins on the sides of may ankles. I still have one that hasnt healed fully from the beginning of summer, but most should be fine in about 2-3 weeks.

[Fonya 0]

Ya I get cuts like that sometimes. Its funny when theres a flap, I always used to play with those.

[kovalchuk71 212]

Ive gotten one of those, they hurt like a bitch after a few days, and I don't know how you play with it, whenever I touch it, it hurts worse than a bee sting....

[Accord 0]

I don't know how you play with it

lot's and lot's and lot's and lot's of tape :D.

[RadioGaGa 162]

I did something like that and I put Neosporin on it. Also, keep it open to the air when you are not playing, that seems to help the healing process.

If your gonna play while it heals, I'd put a band-aid on it, and then tape it, so the and-aid doesn't come off in your glove. I'm sure there's enough bacteria in there to get it nice and infected.

[djinferno 2]

:o shiet

[GTHL_AAA_HOCKEY 0]

Yeah, like stated above by RadioGaGa, make sure it doesnt get infected to bad.

Last year on the leafs Michael Renberg of the Leafs had a cut on his finger from tying his skates, he never cared for it much as it was a small cut. A couple of days later, he went to the doctor to get it checked out, and the doctor said it was infected really bad. he almost got it amputated (spelling). pretty bad for a skate cut. So try and keep it clean.

[Accord 0]

I'm using the bandaid advanced healing thing on it where it kills all the germs and seals in all the natural healing fluids and all that good stuff, it's supposed to act like an artificial scab or something. You're supposed to keep it on for 3 days and then change it.

[Vishi05 0]

I played with a pinky that bent completely back to the rest of the finger. There was a huge ball of blood and puss and what not on the bottom knuckle.

Shooting was fun.. scored a wrister off the cross bar and went to celebrate and then the pain kicked in. Those old gloves just weren't as soft in the fingers as the new ones are and the rough leather rubbing on that finger hurt like hell.

[all-star 0]

ccm and easton skates are a pain to lace up when they are new.

[biff44 0]

A true hockey player. "just tape it"

[rjdlucky 0]

I hope that heels quickly for you. When it does, you can always toughen up your hands by urinating on them like Alfonso Soriano of the Texas Rangers.

[Accord 0]

A true hockey player. "just tape it"

:D

[Fletch 219]

I use heavy waxed laces and I don't have a problem. Then again, my hands are way calloused on the sides (where I grip the laces) so I don't really have a problem. When I am trying on new skates (usually mutliple pairs) I can feel my hands starting to burn from the laces but the skin doesn't rip off anymore, thank god.

[Gongshow11 1]

if you workout then callices (sp?) will form as where you cut yourself, i have callices on the spot where you cut yourself, on every finger

[JR Boucicaut 3809]

LOL what's wrong with you guys...kick back the skate, pull the laces, move your ankle forward for resistance.