CJ Boiss

I never said he was a Nazi, kindly don't put words in my mouth.

German education vis a vis WWII and the Nazis is significantly different than anywhere else in the world. There is no chance he made a mistake by including S's that looked similar to SS bolts without realizing it.

Why are you defending Greiss putting SS bolts on a mask? Guy doesnt need a Devil's advocate

Have you ever got a mask painted and not been very specific about every element on it? The S's don't even match the rest of the font. They were clearly SS bolts, which is absolutely equivalent to a swastika or scrawling Hitler's name on there somewhere. Greiss grew up in Germany, dude knew exactly what he was doing with that.

The topic is inherently political: a player being cut from a team for political things they've said. And Germany has specific laws which regulate speech vis a vis the Nazis and... just everything about them. Pure speculation, but I suspect that this has more to do with his Hitler comments than anything else. Apparently, he also used the SS logo on his Coyotes mask? Which... just... yikes man.

As Chenner said, modern pads are designed to rotate fairly well, but if your strapping is really tight through the leg channel it might not have enough room to. I'd look at loosening up your channel strapping a little bit; realistically, you only need the pad to anchor well at your toe and knee, the rest is fairly extraneous in terms of keeping the pad square on your leg. If you want to keep the pad tightly anchored at your toes you can take some slack out of your laces or switch to elastic toe ties, as seagoal suggested. (personally, I wear my Vaughn pads very "sloppy" with my lace toe ties. The weight of the pad pushes off the front of my skate when I'm upright, which keeps the laces taught and the pad square; a leather strap behind my knee keeps me from falling off the back of the block, and a pair of leather calf straps keep the pads responsive. Easier to do this with soft pads and an open leg channel, which your S27s are not and don't really have, so this probably wouldn't work for you) Regarding your knee block issue, are you using an elastic strap to lock the pad in behind your knee? Because the S27 use a single internal break below the knee a nylon or leather strap (something that won't stretch when you put pressure on it), which runs behind your knee and above the break, should keep your knee from falling off the back of the block. You'll want it tight enough that no amount of force on the pad will create enough space between it and your knee that you land off of the block. I don't like relying on elastic straps to keep my knee on the block, they tend to fail during scrambles and pile-ups. Like what happens to Merzlikins on this play, at 14 seconds: https://youtu.be/IFWz7HgHtZE

It says "four piece construction", but I only see three pieces.

Yeah, do not leave your collarbone exposed while playing ice hockey. I may or may not have accidentally broken a goalie's collarbone with a slapshot one time, because his chestie was too loose and he didn't have a dangler or neckguard with collarbone protection.

A bit of clear rubber fitting on the edge of your mask, it quiets the sound made when you dangler hits it.

I'll show you how I tie my dangler on, and explain why. So, I use waxed laces because they don't absorb water like a regular lace, and are a bit stiffer as well, which I find helps keep the dangler from swinging around too freely and knocking against my mask. First thing I do is make sure I anchor each lace around a weld on my cage. A solid anchor keeps the dangler from shifting around my mask the way it would if I looped it through the ear holes, or looped it around just a horizontal or vertical bar bar. I make that anchor by doing an inside-out kind of loop, I don't really know how to describe it but it's easy to replicate by looking; the only knot in my lace ties is made at the end of the dangler. The anchor loop at the cage weld increases the separation between my dangler and mask a touch, because the laces want to push out away from the mask a bit before gravity takes over and they droop down. The single knot, made on the outside of the dangler after feeding both ends of the lace through the hole, puts yet more lace between the mask and dangler to further reduce contact between the two. The width of the laces, after feeding them both through the same hole, keeps the dangler from riding up, and pulling the dangler down against the knots just tightens them so I never have to worry about them coming loose mid-game. I make sure that the knot on each lace ends *just* at the edge of the mask, which ensures that the dangler never hangs so low that it might get caught between my mask and chestie. The end result is a dangler that hangs low and forward, with quite a bit of separation from the mask, and very little contact between the two unless the dangler is doing it's job and catching a puck heading for my neck. (The scratches on the dangler were caused by my buddy, who wore it very tight and close to his mask before giving it to me, because he found it too noisy. And no wonder, the way he was wearing it the thing clattered off the edge of his mask with every head motion he made)

I wear my dangler low and loose. Never had issues with it catching my chestie. Out of curiosity, how are you tying your dangler on?

Actually though, it's going to feel more like you're playing on an ODR. Can't trust the lines on the ice to tell you where your net is - which probably won't have pegs to grip the ice, and could well be pushed up against the boards, making shots which miss the net way more dangerous in terms of rebounds and also eliminate any kind of behind the net play - and going cross ice will mean you can't relax like you can if you were playing with a full sheet, because guys can and will shoot at you from literally anywhere. If you want easy stoppages in play, or to slow things down, try putting rebounds towards centre ice. If the puck doesn't hop whatever barrier they've put up to divide the games, guys will play more conservatively and have fewer options to move the puck because there are no boards. And don't go out of your net to play the puck. Not enough time or space to do so reliably.

Since 2-on-1s happen all the time, I make sure that *everyone* on my team knows that I want them to take away the pass, unless I'm actively yelling at them to take the shooter. I'm also more aggressive about playing the puck, because it's much harder to turn the puck over on a pass when there's only 3 opponents on the ice. Keep a close eye on the backdoor, and work on that explosive lateral movement, you're going to be doing a lot of it. [Edit] Just saw this was cross-ice, and... fuck if I know. Losing your faceoff dots and crease and lines is a big enough challenge as is; make sure you're tapping off your posts, that's your only lifeline to knowing where your net is.

Pure speculation but, if the pad weight is the same, a "thick" shin would have to be using lower density foams than a "thin" shin. So a "thick" shin should flex more, and give out softer rebounds. Probably best to ask someone in the know, however.

Can confirm. Ron was an absolute pleasure to talk to when I ordered my 3:13.

There's a difference between distributing doses the US government purchased to other countries, and not letting other countries purchase doses. This situation is the latter, not the former.

The US can do whatever the fuck it wants with the vaccine it produces domestically. Trump's decision to prioritize vaccine distribution for Americans was an executive order, and Biden could rescind that with a flick of his wrist. Besides which, it's not a donation when Canada's signed contracts to purchase vaccine. (and even if it was, Biden could "renegotiate" those contracts in a heartbeat, if he wanted to) As of February 2nd, of the currently approved vaccines, Canada purchased: 20 million Moderna vaccines on July 24th, 2020, and optioned another 20 million in early December 20 million Pfizer vaccines on August 1st, 2020, and optioned another 20 million in early 2021 10 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines on August 24th, with options for another 28 million 20 million AstraZeneca vaccines on September 24th Of the vaccines awaiting approval, Canada purchased: 52 million Novavax vaccines on August 27th, with options for another 20 million 52 million Sanofi vaccines, with options for another 20 million 20 million Medicago vaccines, with options for another 56 million Our problem is not that we were slow to secure vaccine contracts (we were consistently one of the first countries in the world to secure vaccine contracts, sometimes *the* first), or that we didn't secure enough (we've got contracts for 400% more vaccine than our population needs), or that our supply chain has failed to get needles into arms (we are, and in any case healthcare is provincially administered, not federally) The problem is countries capable of producing vaccine, like the US, are hoarding it for themselves before anyone else. (and Canada's loss of domestic vaccine production happened under Mulroney's administration back in 1980, so blame for that falls on every administration since then. The Trudeau administration is investing ~$170 million in upgrading the NRC facility to give us domestic production capacity)

Alberta is going back into Stage 1 lockdown, because we don't have enough vaccine supplies to vaccinate the general population (thanks America), and now the variants are ripping through our communities like a hot knife through butter. Despite that, I managed to get some ice today for some 4-on-4, on an "outdoor" rink that has its own refrigeration unit. Tried out my new G4s for the first time, and they felt great from the moment I did my first butterfly. And now I'm probably going to have to wait until the fall for any more hockey. Fuck me.

Are they not making the 4-strap Supreme models anymore?

That's crazy. I've got my G3 set listed for $700 CAD, had a guy try to lowball me for $400 CAD.

I will absolutely get it at the first opportunity. If I'm very lucky, that'll be June.

You haven't ever taken a puck off your trailing thigh when a guy tries to go five-hole after pulling you cross crease?

No knee guards? Brave man.

I am as well. I also wear padded sleeves, and I've never had an issue with them sliding down my leg, which I attribute to everything I wear overtop them.

I've got Bauer Supreme knee guards, the ones with four segments, and I wear socks over those to keep the Velcro from catching on my pants or pads. Never had an issue with them sliding around.