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Bay area hockey goons, where do you get your skates sharpened?
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Nov 22, 2013 00:48
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Zodijackylite posted:I'm looking to get a new street hockey stick, something relatively inexpensive - ideally in the $20-30 range, wood shaft is fine. I play infrequently and casually. The problem I have is that I need a really long stick - I'm 6'10" so most street sticks I come across are too short. Are there any inexpensive but extra long sticks? Should I just get off my rear end and drive a few towns over to PureHockey? I have a couple of Sherwoods I use for occasional outdoor use...make sure whatever you get is an ABS blade. Anything isn't ABS is going to get utterly demolished. As stated below you might be better served getting a shaft for a bit more. Something like this put a 6 inch butt extension on it with an ABS blade and it will be a good size. Nice thing about a shaft is that when you break the blade you can usually get a new on in there and that can will you about $15 a pop.
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Nov 22, 2013 00:49
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Pinky Artichoke posted:Bay area hockey goons, where do you get your skates sharpened? http://www.yelp.com/biz/san-jose-skate-sharpening-and-profiling-san-jose
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Nov 22, 2013 01:09
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I went there once. It's a pretty long drive to an unfamiliar neighborhood (I don't play at Sharks Ice), and I had to wait 30+ minutes alone in the creepy empty shop. So I guess I was hoping for options that feel a little less like the setup for a low-budget horror movie.
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Nov 22, 2013 01:33
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http://www.colthockey.com Crazy strong hockey stick for 285.00 after tax. Their kickstarted is pretty interesting. No idea if it's really that much different. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/colthockey/the-colt-engineering-a-better-hockey-stick DC, go get one of these and see if you can break it with a slapshot.
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Nov 22, 2013 01:44
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No 65 flex no dice. 
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Nov 22, 2013 01:46
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They've got a 75 flex and will likely add junior and intermediate sticks after the initial rush. I'm skeptical and will let someone else drop their hard earned cash first.
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Nov 22, 2013 02:08
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Pinky Artichoke posted:I went there once. It's a pretty long drive to an unfamiliar neighborhood (I don't play at Sharks Ice), and I had to wait 30+ minutes alone in the creepy empty shop. So I guess I was hoping for options that feel a little less like the setup for a low-budget horror movie. Creepy? It's pretty regular in there. If you're not in San Jose your choice is probably "where ever you go skate".
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Nov 22, 2013 02:09
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sellouts posted:http://www.colthockey.com I dont actually (now im going to on Saturday) break sticks almost ever.
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Nov 22, 2013 05:35
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D C posted:I dont actually (now im going to on Saturday) break sticks almost ever. Please report back on Sunday about your (cursed) broken stick
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Nov 22, 2013 14:00
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I think I'm about to witness a literal mutiny. This team I've skated a drop-in session with is run by this old dude (mid 50s?). He played in college and around the minors for a while and got 1 NHL game which he talks about constantly, but now he's just old and really seriously terrible though he remains enormous. He plays defense and is a drat bionic warrior type, wears ridiculous pro shoulder pads and every other piece of protective equipment available, which normally is fine, but then runs about hitting people which is lame to begin with but particularly lame when you've uparmored yourself to the maximum level possible. Fortunately at this point he's too slow to be any real threat most of the time. His team was playing the Canadian team last week, and they have this kid from Montreal who is a phenomenal player and just about the nicest/friendliest dude you'll ever meet on the ice and off. He's also pretty small. He's also black, which isn't relevant to this story but he did have some awful person sling some racial slurs at him earlier this year which got said dude banned for a year. Anyway, last Sunday Canadian dude was wrecking old awful dude's team, old awful dude is about to get skinned at his own blue line AGAIN so his response is to very deliberately stick out a leg. He catches Canadian dude knee on knee, Canadian dude tears ACL and MCL, old dude is kicked out of the game and is currently awaiting word on a suspension. Old dude's team was just as pissed as the Canadian team was for obvious reasons as that was a pretty awful move and they are pretty cool guys. Fast forward to last night, I'm playing drop in with these guys, old dude totally runs one of his own teammates (who is also huge). They collide, go down, etc. Words are exchanged and so on. After the game, old dude leaves, and the guys remaining in the locker room are literally planning out how they will seize the team from old dude and send him packing. It involved having their biggest guy (an old CHL goon) "take care of it" while they simultaneously ask the league commissioner to ban him for 10+ games. It was like watching a soap opera but with more injuries.
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Nov 22, 2013 16:18
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Had a game last night, and the bottom of my skate is separating from the boot. Anybody have any recommendations on a solid pair of skates to buy in the ~$300 range? Not really super picky on which brand. I've only ever used Bauer in the past and haven't really had any issues.
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Nov 22, 2013 16:22
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Go to the store and try on skates. Buy the most expensive ones you feel comfortable with that fit the best.
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Nov 22, 2013 16:23
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Then stick with Bauer, everyone seems to love the stuff they're putting out.
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Nov 22, 2013 16:25
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The only store near me is an overpriced nightmare staffed by people that constantly try to press you into buying more expensive options for whatever you are in there for. Also they are absolutely garbage at sharpening skates. Are there any good sites aside from hockeymonkey and hockeygiant?
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Nov 22, 2013 16:50
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All the gear websites will be about the same due to pricing restrictions imposed by manufacturers. If you're content with 1 or 2 year old gear you can get lucky with clearance sales though. icewarehouse is a decent merchant. totalhockey has an online store though I've never heard of anyone using it. There's at least one other out there but I can't remember the name of it right now.
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Nov 22, 2013 16:54
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xzzy posted:All the gear websites will be about the same due to pricing restrictions imposed by manufacturers. If you're content with 1 or 2 year old gear you can get lucky with clearance sales though. Icewarehouse was the other one I was thinking of. I usually check out all the clearance sections/sales before looking at buying new. Looks like hockeymonkey has a 20% off pretty much everything sale right now, so I will probably get some Vapor X:70s or something. Thanks for the help
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Nov 22, 2013 16:56
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What size skate are you and have you taken them to said store to see if they can be repaired? Or do you just want new skates (I don't blame you if you do)
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Nov 22, 2013 17:20
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sellouts posted:What size skate are you and have you taken them to said store to see if they can be repaired? Or do you just want new skates (I don't blame you if you do) Size 12 skates. There is almost definitely no way to repair them, but they are six years old with heavy use during five of those six years. They were also 70 dollars when I bought them. I definitely want new skates.
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Nov 22, 2013 19:32
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Chemmy posted:Creepy? It's pretty regular in there. If you're not in San Jose your choice is probably "where ever you go skate". Regular like an empty space with no customers, employees, or merchandise. It's going to be a special trip regardless, I don't think I've ever had a non-tournament game scheduled for within 2 hours of a pro shop's hours of operation.
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Nov 22, 2013 20:57
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bewbies posted:Assholes in sports. Had a team practice once and the fattest, most worthless player on our team flat out elbows our best center in the mouth. After we made sure the center had all his chiclets, it took exactly three minutes for us all to toss the rear end in a top hat. He's pleading his case, while no one is listening and our captains had the vote right then and there. What I'm saying here is, I'm glad to know there are assholes at all levels of a sport.
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Nov 22, 2013 22:38
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So apparently this league I'm in allows players to skate without any sorta facial protection. I'm wincing at the thought that one of the few players that actually does this is gonna lose an eye one of these days. It's only a mid-level beer league. Oh and I came across a great helmet/cage combo: Easton E700 helmet and Itech titanium cage I found on Ebay. It's crazy how light it is on my head. Now I just have to get used to skating with bars again. Also, I got new shoulder pads: http://www.hockeymonkey.com/mission-hockey-undergarment-pro-compression-ss-sr.html It's pretty much a sleeveless compression shirt with padding as well as shoulder + bicep pads attached, but it's really comfortable and actually an upgrade to the hacked up +10 year old thing I was wearing previously shyduck fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Nov 23, 2013 |
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Nov 23, 2013 08:09
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inSTAALed posted:The only store near me is an overpriced nightmare staffed by people that constantly try to press you into buying more expensive options for whatever you are in there for. Also they are absolutely garbage at sharpening skates. Are there any good sites aside from hockeymonkey and hockeygiant? I'm assuming you're talking about FiveHole. The last time I got my skates sharpened there, the guy didn't level them correctly. Instead of the blades being flat like this: - - the edges were angled like this: / \ I had a game that night and during warmups I couldn't make an outside turn without falling because I had no outside edges at all. Luckily the pro shop at the rink I was at was still open and I got em fixed - they didn't even charge me for fixing it. You skate at the Plex - have you ever been in the pro shop over there? The owner does a pretty good sharpening job (the girl at the pro shop in the Cary Ice House is also really good - the two of them are about the only people around that I trust with my skates). His space is limited so I don't know what his equipment inventory is like. Can I gripe about wingers not being where they need to be in the defensive zone? Good god. We have some wingers on my team who constantly drop too far down in our defensive end. The end result of this of course is that those of us back on D don't have an outlet pass to clear the zone, but even worse is that they get in the loving way. I had one of my own wingers take me out last night because she was so far out of position and I bruised my tailbone pretty badly in the crash that resulted. It hurts to sit and I haven't been able to get comfortable all drat day.
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Nov 24, 2013 06:36
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:I'm assuming you're talking about FiveHole. The last time I got my skates sharpened there, the guy didn't level them correctly. Instead of the blades being flat like this: - - the edges were angled like this: / \ I had a game that night and during warmups I couldn't make an outside turn without falling because I had no outside edges at all. Luckily the pro shop at the rink I was at was still open and I got em fixed - they didn't even charge me for fixing it. Thats impossible, unless they were using some sort of sharpening machine ive never seen before...
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Nov 24, 2013 09:29
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D C posted:Thats impossible, unless they were using some sort of sharpening machine ive never seen before... Maybe I should clarify. The blades weren't pointed like this: ^ . The left one angled out this way: / and the right one angled this way: \ so that my inside edges were longer than my outside edges. I don't know how he managed it but I saw it for myself at the second place where I got my skates fixed. The person there showed me with the leveling (balancing?) tool they use. Definitely the most jacked-up sharpening I've ever had. Zamboni Rodeo fucked around with this message at 12:38 on Nov 24, 2013 |
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Nov 24, 2013 12:20
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:I'm assuming you're talking about FiveHole. The last time I got my skates sharpened there, the guy didn't level them correctly. Instead of the blades being flat like this: - - the edges were angled like this: / \ I had a game that night and during warmups I couldn't make an outside turn without falling because I had no outside edges at all. Luckily the pro shop at the rink I was at was still open and I got em fixed - they didn't even charge me for fixing it. I play at Cary and Garner Ice House right now. The Iceplex has the best sharpening in the area by far. The guy who used to run the proshop is working for some team in Europe as their equipment manager now, but he has several guys he trained that took up where he left off. And, yeah, Fvehole sucks so much.
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Nov 24, 2013 17:41
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So it's starting to look like I might be working in NYC (and possibly living in Hoboken or something, not sure yet) starting next year. Any goons know of good rinks in the NYC or North Jersey areas?
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Nov 24, 2013 18:12
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inSTAALed posted:I play at Cary and Garner Ice House right now. The Iceplex has the best sharpening in the area by far. The guy who used to run the proshop is working for some team in Europe as their equipment manager now, but he has several guys he trained that took up where he left off. And, yeah, Fvehole sucks so much. Yeah, I miss the guy who used to run the pro shop at the Plex (he's in Finland now if I remember right). He far and away did the best sharpening I ever had.
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Nov 24, 2013 19:35
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Was able to try on some skates this weekend. As a guy that has pretty much always played on Mission skates and only recently (last year and a half) gotten back into vaguely competitive play I never really tried anything else on. So tried on the newest AC 2's from Mission and didn't like them. At all. Too much space in the toe box. Didn't feel anchored in the skate. A number of people I play with seem to roll on Alkali's so I gave them a shot. Very very nice pair of skates. The Bauer's are also excellent. Unfortunately the store I was in didn't have exactly what I was looking for, but the internet did. Pair of 9.5 Alkali CA9 RPDs on clearance with an extra 15% off are now my new Christmas present to me. I played 300+ games on my Missions and they have served me well, but that chassis is flexing a whole lot and a top tier skate for sub $300 is very difficult to beat. Also, for any other roller guys if you need wheels Hockey Monkey currently has some random Lebeda Addictions 76As on clearance for $10 and you can use the 20% off code on them. Picked 4 wheels up for $32.
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Nov 25, 2013 15:58
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Trip Report: No broken stick, (brought 3 just in case) 1g 1a in a 3-2 loss 
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Nov 25, 2013 21:03
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Vicas posted:So it's starting to look like I might be working in NYC (and possibly living in Hoboken or something, not sure yet) starting next year. Any goons know of good rinks in the NYC or North Jersey areas? The biggest indoor league is the one at Chelsea Sky Rink, but the ice there sucks, the league is very expensive, and it is by far the chippiest league around here, lots of fights. The better indoor league I've found is in Long Island City (close to the bridge) at City Ice Pavilion. Then of course there's outdoor hockey in central park, at Lasker Rink. That's the best run league in terms of organization and they also take no poo poo in terms of fighting etc, so its about as clean as beer league hockey can get, if it was indoor I'd play there year round. I run teams at both Lasker and City Ice Pavilion and with minor caveats would recommend both. If you're coming from over the river in NJ though, CIP might be hard to get to. If you're in Manhattan, Brooklyn, or Queens, definitely play at one of those two.
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Nov 25, 2013 23:59
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Only six players and one goalie initially showed up for drop-in today at lunch, so we played half-ice 3 vs 3. I was expecting it to be awful, but one guy suggested a couple of rules I hadn't played with before. They seriously improve half-ice 3 vs 3: - If your team gains possession, you have to clear the puck past the blue-line (as per usual). But… - No offsides (so only one player really has to clear the zone) - If the puck passes the red-line, it counts as a turnover. Way more fun this way. No full-ice clears, and you don't spend all your time tagging up. A++ WOULD RECOMMEND.
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Nov 26, 2013 00:48
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Yeah those are good rules. We had the carry onsides rule for 4v4 and it works awesome for half ice. Not so good for full ice!
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Nov 26, 2013 03:27
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We usually start out with having to clear the zone when someone gets the puck out, but after about 20 minutes when no one can breathe the rules take a back seat. 
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Nov 26, 2013 05:35
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I'm going to be in Ann Arbor over the holiday... Any Michigoons familiar with the Ice Cube and the drop in games there?
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Nov 26, 2013 06:19
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loving bro hug posted:I'm going to be in Ann Arbor over the holiday... Any Michigoons familiar with the Ice Cube and the drop in games there? I'll be going to the Winter Classic. 
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Nov 26, 2013 20:50
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:I'll be going to the Winter Classic. Sucker. Wife and I passed on buying tickets because watching hockey in a football stadium loving sucks. You're watching ants chase a period.
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Nov 26, 2013 21:15
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Getting out of work at 3 instead of 5 tomorrow: great. Nearby center having stick and puck at 3:30: even better. Also currently debating with myself about doing the adult instructional league. Biggest problem is that it's on Sunday at rear end stupid 'o' clock in the morning, but I'm heavily leaning towards gently caress yes.
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Nov 27, 2013 06:32
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Pinky Artichoke posted:Bay area hockey goons, where do you get your skates sharpened? Hey I didn't know you were in the Bay Area! Do you play on any of the women's travel teams around here/are you going to the tournament this weekend? I haven't played hockey in like a month and a half it's killing me. hahahah 4th year sucks 
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Nov 27, 2013 08:37
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Are you on the tourney team this weekend? I'll be going to watch.
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Nov 27, 2013 08:54
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