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prom candy posted:Does anyone have any experience with these hybrid shields? http://www.bauer.com/player-ice-hockey-helmets-and-facial/visors/hybrid-shield this poo poo sucks. like pleads says the visor is best for pucks down low. this introduces fog while fixing nothing. I love when I can skate with a visor.
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A dude on my team wears a hybrid cage with the visor removed, which does seem like it would protect from most errant sticks/pucks but...I dunno. Also he is old and weird.
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Feb 1, 2015 23:11
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Well xzzy, I felt like our line played pretty well today. I want that one I put through the crease back though.
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Feb 1, 2015 23:12
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It was just nice to be in a game where I'm not lagging behind people vastly faster and more experienced. Having an extra second to look around and read what's going just feels good. Now if only I didn't still suck.
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Feb 1, 2015 23:21
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I'd say the splitting of divisions worked out nicely. It's giving people more puck time when they normally wouldn't get any. Hell, I normally don't get multiple shots off in a game.
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Feb 2, 2015 05:15
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Hockles posted:I've been using a cage for 20+ years. I don't notice the bars. I enjoy the face protection. I've been playing for a little over 5 years now and I'm finally used to the cage in my vision. Those first couple games were so weird.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:39
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I am 100% of the opinion that once you are accustomed to a cage, you don't even notice it (especially with the varies profiles/colors available now). It boggles me that some beer league players of all people - ie: at a level where, even if it were a hindrance,it would least affect performance, and where players have the least amount of control - opt to play with mostly unprotected faces.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:48
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I feel like I notice the cage the moment I put my helmet on but you get used to it after a few minutes. In all honesty you should be practicing your stick handling by feel so that you don't have to look down at the puck in the first place.
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Feb 2, 2015 21:59
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I see the cage all the time, but I just don't care because I enjoy having teeth and eyeballs.
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Feb 2, 2015 22:16
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I've haven't been playing long at all and I never noticed the cage. Keep your mind in the game and you don't notice gear. The only time it bugs me is when I'm pulling out my mouth guard on the bench and putting it back in. I'll be getting a smaller guard though hopefully that will solve that inconvenience.
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Feb 2, 2015 22:34
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bigbillystyle posted:I wear glasses too so I never really considered ditching the cage Y'know, this was something I was actually wondering about recently as a semi-old never-ever who's looking into, at the least, getting into stick'n'puck and eventually drop-ins sometime down the line (not any time soon, though). I wear glasses for distance and could probably play without them but it would be more-awesome if I could keep em on - can you really get them on under there comfortably enough? The last poo poo CCM helmet I tried on there was no waaaay I could get glasses under there. Tips/ideas/suggestion?
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Feb 2, 2015 23:26
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Nitramster posted:I've haven't been playing long at all and I never noticed the cage. Keep your mind in the game and you don't notice gear. The only time it bugs me is when I'm pulling out my mouth guard on the bench and putting it back in. I'll be getting a smaller guard though hopefully that will solve that inconvenience. Similar to this is when I want to get a drink of water. I would get a squirt bottle but wet wheels don't mix well with sport court.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:27
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I wear glasses in hockey just fine, I don't notice any tightness at all where the helmet presses into my head. They don't fog up that bad either, as long as I stay moving they stay clear. The biggest issue is if sweat gets into my eyes.. I can't just squirt water on my face because that will really gently caress up my ability to see with big drops stuck to the lenses. Fortunately that doesn't happen to often anymore. I got it a lot early on, and then it just stopped. I have no idea why.
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Habibi posted:I am 100% of the opinion that once you are accustomed to a cage, you don't even notice it (especially with the varies profiles/colors available now). It boggles me that some beer league players of all people - ie: at a level where, even if it were a hindrance,it would least affect performance, and where players have the least amount of control - opt to play with mostly unprotected faces. I felt this way for the 20 years I skated with a cage then I took it off. It makes a difference for me. I still use it in anything competitive but it is an absolute joy to skate without one.
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Feb 2, 2015 23:42
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I notice the cage out of peripheral vision, but I've trained my eyes and brain to see and read the puck and play in square quadrants.
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Feb 3, 2015 00:06
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Yeah, tinted visor's are vastly superior, especially when trying to find the puck at your feet. However, I still wear a cage in anything competitive because I don't want to mess up my beautiful face. Also, I'm short, so I constantly get sticks/elbows in the face.
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Feb 3, 2015 00:20
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what the gently caress nonsense are you talking about bootcha
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Feb 3, 2015 00:52
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lazerwolf posted:Similar to this is when I want to get a drink of water. I would get a squirt bottle but wet wheels don't mix well with sport court. 
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Feb 3, 2015 00:55
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xzzy posted:I wear glasses in hockey just fine, I don't notice any tightness at all where the helmet presses into my head. They don't fog up that bad either, as long as I stay moving they stay clear. Cool - and I'm due for another pair of glasses but my current spectacles are still in p good shape so I could just demote those to hockey-related-times and not feel too bad if they get beat up.
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Feb 3, 2015 01:03
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sellouts posted:what the gently caress nonsense are you talking about bootcha Consider it a weird goalie thing. If the puck's at such and such a distance, I look through these cage squares. If it's at my feet, these squares.
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Duke Chin posted:Cool - and I'm due for another pair of glasses but my current spectacles are still in p good shape so I could just demote those to hockey-related-times and not feel too bad if they get beat up. I don't have any problems with the glasses under the helmet. I've worn glasses almost my entire playing career and at least the entirety of my full contact full checking hockey days and have only had one pair actually break while I was on the ice and it was during a no-check pickup. I got bumped into by a dude and his shoulder hit my helmet and my glasses just snapped at the nose when they got flexed a little bit but they were seriously old frames so I just chalk it up to them being down to their last legs. To get a helmet on I just kinda pull the sides out a little bit as I'm putting on my head and adjust my specs if necessary. Oh and I do keep a set of older glasses that I wear just for hockey/work/snowboarding/anything else that I do that could possibly break them so I'm not out a good pair. I never went the route of trying rain-x or any of that poo poo trying to keep them from fogging. Just like xzzy posted even if they fog, once you get off the bench and get moving again they un-fog themselves pretty quickly. That's about all I can think of as far as glasses and hockey goes.
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I wore glasses for one stick time and it was literally the worst thing in the world. Get LASIK you cavemen.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Get LASIK you cavemen. They're not bad enough. I'm just... old.   (didn't wear glasses till around 29-30 yrs old and see fine inside of ~12 feet or so - everything past that starts getting fuzzier and fuzzier or the threshold starts coming in the more tired I get).
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Feb 3, 2015 01:57
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those under armour skull caps are really good for keeping sweat out of your eyes.
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Bootcha posted:Consider it a weird goalie thing. If the puck's at such and such a distance, I look through these cage squares. If it's at my feet, these squares.  We all know goalies are weird, but...
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i'll wait for the more accomplished goalie of the thread bradford to chime in but i have a feeling it's complete nonsense. trying to play hockey like he's scanning quadrants as a computer playing battleship or whatever
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sellouts posted:i'll wait for the more accomplished goalie of the thread bradford to chime in but i have a feeling it's complete nonsense. I never said it made sense. This is how my damaged brain functions. Bootcha fucked around with this message at 10:35 on Feb 3, 2015 |
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Do you have a GUI that assesses threat level based on who is carrying the puck?
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prom candy posted:Do you have a GUI that assesses threat level based on who is carrying the puck? I was trying to find a Terminator-type screen for this exact joke...
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Feb 3, 2015 17:06
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puck is entering quadrant b5, reroute the blocker drats, you've sunk my goalie
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Bootcha posted:Consider it a weird goalie thing. If the puck's at such and such a distance, I look through these cage squares. If it's at my feet, these squares. The gently caress are you talking about?
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Feb 3, 2015 18:13
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drat, the ol slapshot on shootout attempt did not work this week. Fired it right into his leg.
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Bootcha posted:I never said it made sense. This is how my damaged brain functions. Puck to H5. You scored on my five hole!
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:drat, the ol slapshot on shootout attempt did not work this week. Fired it right into his leg. I had the best snipe of my life in a shootout on Saturday. I think it's the first time I ever shot a puck and thought, "wow that went really fast."
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Goalie last night had a unique Captain Morgan style of going/staying down that really maximized the 5 hole. ...I still didn't manage to score on him.
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Benson Cunningham posted:I had the best snipe of my life in a shootout on Saturday. I think it's the first time I ever shot a puck and thought, "wow that went really fast." Those are both the best and the worst, because you can only replicate them by accident.
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Crossposting from N/Vbewbies posted:I wrote this whole post earlier and then IE crashed an I lost it so gently caress you I wrote it all again. I'm sure a lot of you won't find this terribly interesting but I did. I used to tape my skates like that in high school. Maybe I should do a hybrid of what he says, and leave 1 eyelet open, and tape it all up.
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Feb 3, 2015 21:51
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I was about to just tell bewbies to cross post it here. Great poo poo.
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Interesting stuff, thanks for posting.
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Lately I've been tossing around the far fetched idea of taking up goalie so for shits sake at work I put together a discount set of goalie gear to see what it would take to feel comfortable stepping out in front of a slapshot. It was something like $1600 for basic entry level ice gear. Nevermind.
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