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shyduck posted:Other musings: I've been thinking about doing a girdle but haven't bit the bullet yet. Love my prostock pants, a ton of protection. I wish my daughter would try skating again, she fell during a learn to skate and refused to try again.
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I am addicted to the true catalyst 9x pro stock gloves cuz they look like gauntlets and I feel like I have to buy extras in case they stop making them that way  shyduck posted:- My 3 y/o daughter is learning to ice skate and she can take steps unassisted now  xzzy posted:Shaving 150 grams off my helmet is what I've been waiting for to elevate my game. It balances out the weight of the extra beer shyduck posted:https://www.amazon.com/WARGATE-Shield-Protector-Hockey-Accessory/dp/B08KWTFR26  I'll def give this is a try if it doesn't fit in my current one
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Jun 29, 2023 19:45
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:This is super dumb and a super dick thing to say. I assume you don't have his medical record on hand, so if he wants to wear a mask, let him wear a mask. back off the squat rack bro and give it another read If wants to wear a mask wear a mask, engineering hooks and other poo poo onto protective things around your face is dangerous and dumb and gets more dangerous in some sort of unpredictable collision Like chemmy said, just change the mask if you want to wear a mask.
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Jun 29, 2023 20:46
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I have two wargates and theyre hideous but helpful. Got the second one because moving from helmet to helmet was a pain in the rear end. Shield + wargate is infinitely better than a full cage or bubble, and I’ve taken several incidental sticks and one tipped shot to the cage. A++ would ‘cage again.
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Jun 29, 2023 21:14
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sellouts posted:back off the squat rack bro and give it another read There are slightly different J-clips that people have used elsewhere on reddit if certain cages/hybrids didn't sit right due to the thickness of the plastic j-clips, so I was maybe going to use those or just use the already built-in extra holes to reposition. In any case, wargate might be the best option for my use case anyway JUST MAKING CHILI posted:I have two wargates and theyre hideous but helpful. Got the second one because moving from helmet to helmet was a pain in the rear end. Shield + wargate is infinitely better than a full cage or bubble, and I’ve taken several incidental sticks and one tipped shot to the cage. A++ would ‘cage again. Good to hear. One thing I was wondering though was if the wargate chin strap actually attaches to the cage or if it's just an extra strap on the helmet. I can't tell from the pictures and the product pictures don't even include the strap but the instructions mention it so I assume it's included?
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Jun 29, 2023 21:49
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Do whatever you want to do for whatever reason you want, man Engineering yourself using third party steel hooks as you originally said around your face in an unpredictable contact sport sounds like you’re creating a contraption and is a generally bad idea imo vs just wearing a mask and popping behind the bench to change it as needed.
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Jun 29, 2023 22:00
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xzzy posted:Shaving 150 grams off my helmet is what I've been waiting for to elevate my game. It's like I've been training with a DBZ weight on my head. Now I can not shoulder check twice as fast
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Jun 29, 2023 22:31
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For mask in your cage stuff CCM made these things when hockey first started coming back https://www.hockeymonkey.com/ccm-ho...CoaAvnfEALw_wcB Not sure of the effectiveness as one of their bullet points says this Added protective barrier that also increases the protection from contamination of those around them and two bullet points down says this This product does not eliminate the risk of inbound or outbound contagion But it is a mask specifically made to go inside your cage. E: I have not worn one so I can't give any anecdotal knowledge but I just remember youth hockey made masks mandatory I think and CCM came up with this as an alternative to the regular blue disposable mask.
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Jun 29, 2023 22:52
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sellouts posted:using third party steel hooks as you originally said around your face Also a if you get a ref that cares about safety, they will kick you off the ice for it.
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Jun 29, 2023 22:52
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bigbillystyle posted:For mask in your cage stuff CCM made these things when hockey first started coming back https://www.hockeymonkey.com/ccm-ho...CoaAvnfEALw_wcB Back in January 2022 they implemented an indoor mask again and I wore that. Actually wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. Was a tad hot so I'm sure during the summer it's bad. One guy on a team I play with wears a n95 and cage the entire game. Don't think he ever changed it.
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Jun 29, 2023 23:47
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xzzy posted:Also a if you get a ref that cares about safety, they will kick you off the ice for it. We don’t go looking for it, but I routinely make sure people have their helmets fastened correctly during normal play and you will be going for a change if it can’t be immediately corrected. I’d rather you miss a shift instead of taking on the risk of you getting CTE. It’s very obvious when a helmet isn’t fit properly or buckled. Have a guy with a Reebok helmet, but we don’t require certifications on adult players. I regularly give him a hard time about it being time to upgrade before he gets hurt. It is an approved helmet design though. You don’t want to wear proper chest and shoulder pads there’s not much I can do (except youth), but I will chirp you for wearing gear as old as the person wearing it. The half visor/half cage thing that people are wearing these days will probably work the best for a mask. Limited fogging supposedly, and there’s not a chin rest on it that would move the mask. I’ve played in my visor only helmet once on a day I had back to back games and it was very comfortable but unnerving because I like my teeth. Just couldn’t fit all the gear into the bag for both uniforms.
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Jun 29, 2023 23:59
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The first thing I did was peel the expiration date sticker off my helmet when I bought it lol
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Jun 30, 2023 00:51
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Don't ask me about my 2011 expired goalie helmet and especially not about any concussions I may have from hits to the head in the last 2 years while wearing it! Unrelated but I'm wearing a decades-old chest protector and on Tuesday took a shot to my catching shoulder that just missed/ignored all padding and left immeasurable soreness and probably in a few more days a wicked bruise, which I will cherish. So in true beer league fashion, I played net again tonight and my glove hand was unbeatable. Here's a low quality LiveBarn vid of a dude making a perfect tip and being owned by this new superpower. Get Rookie of the Yeared, idiot. https://i.imgur.com/SyjH1Nw.mp4
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Jul 7, 2023 09:13
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bigbillystyle posted:For mask in your cage stuff CCM made these things when hockey first started coming back https://www.hockeymonkey.com/ccm-ho...CoaAvnfEALw_wcB I used one of those, it seemed more like just a performative measure than actually doing the job of a mask, so if you’re just checking off a box for a league requirement it would work but if you’re actually looking for protection I’d probably try another option or pair it with a disposable mask underneath. Consider if as effective as the cloth masks everyone’s moms were making in 2020.
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Jul 7, 2023 18:11
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Pleads posted:Don't ask me about my 2011 expired goalie helmet and especially not about any concussions I may have from hits to the head in the last 2 years while wearing it! that was an amazing tip and a better glove. amazing!
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Jul 7, 2023 18:18
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Pleads posted:Don't ask me about my 2011 expired goalie helmet and especially not about any concussions I may have from hits to the head in the last 2 years while wearing it! If that ref didn't compliment that save on the way by he's not paying attention. That was a wonderful save. You should get a new helmet though. The new chesties are pretty awesome these days too, but much less important than a new helmet. Those are going to fit a lot better than a helmet you bought in probably 2005 or earlier. Be more comfortable too I expect.
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Jul 7, 2023 19:17
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V for Vegans posted:I used one of those, it seemed more like just a performative measure than actually doing the job of a mask, so if you’re just checking off a box for a league requirement it would work but if you’re actually looking for protection I’d probably try another option or pair it with a disposable mask underneath. Consider if as effective as the cloth masks everyone’s moms were making in 2020. Yeah that is kind of what I figured, like if you are actually looking for the protection of a mask this probably not the thing but figured I'd toss it out there anyway. Maybe that dude who was looking for it can somehow modify a real mask to work with this idea. 
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Jul 7, 2023 21:47
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I’m being inundated with Crazy Game of Hockey social media posts today, so I want to wish our resident goalie fun and a good enjoyable weekend with the event.
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Jul 8, 2023 01:32
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Jhet posted:I’m being inundated with Crazy Game of Hockey social media posts today, so I want to wish our resident goalie fun and a good enjoyable weekend with the event. Game was a blast! I came out and let in some brutal ones when I first came in. Thankfully we escaped my nerves leaving the 2nd period 8-8 and the 3rd went well. I ended up stopping breakaways from Haula and Darby and took the game to a shootout, after the 3rd ended it was 10-10. My entire stint in net was vs Stalock so that was cool. Shootout they sent that "Coach Chippy" guy since he was scoring on me in the game, I stopped his. We had Barber come in and work his magic and score. Boldy got me 5 hole and then Vanek costed in waving his stick around jokingly then clapped top right corner. Jacob Bardown vs me for the win and he tried the Kucherov and I pinched the legs shut for the win.
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titanium posted:Game was a blast! I came out and let in some brutal ones when I first came in. Thankfully we escaped my nerves leaving the 2nd period 8-8 and the 3rd went well. I ended up stopping breakaways from Haula and Darby and took the game to a shootout, after the 3rd ended it was 10-10. My entire stint in net was vs Stalock so that was cool. I saw a bunch of those shootout replays and wasn’t sure who was in net. Those were some great stops. I’m glad it was a blast and it looked like a ton of fun. I kept getting shown clips for a day or so with the “you didn’t see this one yet, did you?” so it was fun getting to watch the parts that got posted. Barber is such a genius with those shootout moves too, they’re awesome. Very glad you had fun, and we had fun watching along.
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Jul 11, 2023 07:03
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Some guy at Rat cross-checked a player because he dared to be in the crease and the two got into it a little bit. Literally one shift later the cross-checker got his stick wedged between the boards and snapped. Instant karma.
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The rink I currently play out of has 2 sheets of ice and one of them has looked like the photo below for a couple of months now. Yeah that is dirt. Hockey this week got cancelled because of a giant hole in the ice on the second sheet. I don't know the details of the hole, how big, how bad, but things aren't looking good in Bridgewater, MA. I have seen other rinks have issues with a leak of somekind from the roof cause a hole in the ice surface that can usually be fixed pretty quickly but I don't have a lot of faith with this rink.
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Jul 12, 2023 01:42
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A few years ago one of our local rinks developed a roof leak around center ice. We played an entire game with an orange cone on the spot, which is the most Philly poo poo imaginable
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Jul 12, 2023 16:23
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Ha, the old rink I used to play at had the same thing happen once and we did the same thing. Only problem was instead of center ice it was like close to the boards in the zone like right where you'd want to pick up a breakout pass if you're a wing so the cone was like an extra defender always pinching in.
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So I have a newish pair of skates, probably have about 20 skates on them or so. They fit fine, but I feel like I'm not quite as confident on them? I only say this because the other day I skated with my old pair, and they just felt better, like I felt more grounded. This was just a casual skate with my daughter after her skating lessons, so wasn't really pushing it or anything. But contrast to my new pair, and I just don't feel as surefooted. Losing edges unexpectedly despite being sharp. Catching edges. They're both CCM Tacks, so same general fit. Both have stock profile. I don't know, it's probably all mental. I'm gonna play a game with my old pair I think
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shyduck posted:So I have a newish pair of skates, probably have about 20 skates on them or so. They fit fine, but I feel like I'm not quite as confident on them? Are you sure you didn’t just get a bad cut on the new skates? Or maybe they aren’t baked quite the way the old ones are worn in? It amazes me just how much some little things change how the skates feel on the ice to the point where I’m trying to get the same person to sharpen my skates when I go into the shop.
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Jul 13, 2023 16:43
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Also, skate brands change their fits and models year to year despite remaining the same "series". Bauer vapors for instance, are generally narrow fitting, but have changed slightly in how they feel from year to year or so as they revise the design. Generally a bake helps but its not always the case. Steel on new skates is also taller as new steel isnt ground down yet, doubly so if it has step steel or something of the like which is taller than stock steel. Skates you're used to are likely much shorter and closer to the ice. Footbeds change year to year as well. Its also surprising how lacing changes how your skates fit. The biggest noticeable factor will be the radius. Trying to match your previous radius is important. If your radius is different, the exact same skate wont even feel similar.
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Jul 13, 2023 16:53
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I have to miss a game on Sunday and it makes me very sad
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Jul 13, 2023 16:59
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Thanks for the feedback. The new ones are baked, but yeah they still don't quite have that glove-like feel of my old ones. The olds are Tacks (2014, top of the line) and the new (new-old stock) are 6092 (2016, one step down). The steel on the olds is actually taller than the new because I cracked a blade a year ago and replaced them with Massive Blade steel, which are taller than most stock options. (edit: that might actually be part of the issue come to think of it, because I can turn tighter with the taller steel) Maybe a re-bake? shyduck fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Jul 13, 2023 |
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I had similar issues with new skates. Getting the steel profiled from no icing with the same profile makes any new pair of skates/steel feel like the old ones for me. Highly recommend.
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I had to ask for a defenseman rocker on my player skates when I first got them because they were pitched forward too much. I think they were Bauer Vapors from like 2015. Or whatever the red box ones were.
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What up hockey thread. Played my second official rookie league game (ever) today and scored my first goal! Blind rebound that went through some legs. 4 v 4 league and we had 5 people show up + 1 sub. Tried to play the entire first 14min period and made it 12. Ended up in a tie even after sudden death. I’ll take it. I. Am. G a s s e d. Hockey owns.
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It's hot and humid and the ice today was a big, sloppy mess
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935 goddamn dollars for our next 24-game season, holy hell.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:935 goddamn dollars for our next 24-game season, holy hell.  Are you a team of only 5 skaters?
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I think Seattle kraken league is around 800, last time I played, for a 24 game winter league with a team of about 15 people on it. poo poo is not cheap in Seattle.
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The most recent league I was in charged one price for the whole team, which ended up being around $280 per person. We'd usually have between 8 and 13 skaters show up for each game, which was pretty ideal. It was a 20-game season and you got at least 2 more games if you made the playoffs.
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Same with kraken, it was a team total ($10k+ IIRC) but that's how it broke down with 13-15 skaters. It is/was not fun to have to front that money and pay the league knowing the odds that someone will move or not pay. Eventually they were able to split it up by person and charge everybody individually for their portion of the team total. But at the end of the season the league would say "John, Jesus, and Frank" havent paid, we need the balance of 2400 before the end of the season.
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Verman posted:I think Seattle kraken league is around 800, last time I played, for a 24 game winter league with a team of about 15 people on it. poo poo is not cheap in Seattle. This is accurate. It was just under $450 for the summer season. Youth house programs are starting around $2k for the winter season and a lot more for rep/tier B-AAA hockey. Kraken league charges directly to the linked player account in the app now, so it’s easy to know who owes for what. Thankfully, refereeing adult league games pays for my league fees pretty easily and I’ve made more than I’ve spent (but not by all that much). Only took around 7-8 games for the summer and I can do that in two weeks. But then I also just spent $400 on some new equipment anyway. Hockey, it’s really expensive.
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Across the water in Bremerton you get 10 games for $500ish, they charge players individually instead of a team fee.
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