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CJ Boiss

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  1. I'd also like to see a puck impacting those wires in super slow-motion, to see how much they bend before deflecting it away.
  2. It's not that, it's the wires under tension. Already pointed out by Zero, a wire that snaps could whip our face, and we have no real way to gauge when to replace it. The other thing is that when it fails whatever caused that failure is going to be coming straight into our face. A puck that hits a standard cage and bends a bar will still deflect away from our face, 99% of the time; the only exception I know of is when it bends two bars at the "eye", and wedges itself in there. But those wires? Nah. I'll stick with a standard cage, thanks.
  3. Not a chance in hell I would trust my eyes to that.
  4. Dude had a Sv% above .900 without any depth perception. Fuckin' wild.
  5. Yup. I got a cage from him, and his customer service was second to none.
  6. It'll all depend on how long the hinge mechanism holds up. NHLers may be OK to go through multiple pairs of skates in a season, but Average Joe can't be dropping $1100 on custom skates every eight months.
  7. Warrior's latest gear lines have 4 models: E, E+, Pro, and Pro+.
  8. Smith was such an idiot on that play. "Ah, yes, let my try to spin-o-rama deke a rushing Milan Lucic behind the net, famously the best spot for a goalie to try and dangle a man as wide as a barn door."
  9. If it's good enough for the pro goalies in the Euro leagues, it's good enough for the goalies in the NHL. Just because the skill level in the Euro leagues is lower than in the NHL doesn't mean the goalie equipment faces less abuse.
  10. See what @CamWardFan said: Warrior pads aren't used in the NHL because they don't want to pay the licensing fee, not because the gear is lower quality or "not good enough" for the NHL pros.
  11. Intent to play the loose puck, sure. Going hard to the net doesn't qualify as "intent to run the goalie and hurt him".
  12. Kadri doesn't have a history of running goalies, and he didn't do anything wrong on that play. Binnington's own defenceman rode him in.
  13. These pictures make me think of kites. Especially the red/white/blue.
  14. You must be watching different games than I am, because I don't see much of that. The game is way, way faster than it used to be, and that makes it much harder to defend.
  15. I think it's less that the defense is careless or poor and more that the offense is much more dynamic and fast than it used to be.
  16. He broke a goalie's mask during a game (and scored on the play, because the puck bounced into the net).
  17. Why the fuck would any goalie have gone helmetless when MacInnis was in the league?
  18. Just to add on and note why mask weight seems to make such an impact. Google says the average human head weighs ~11lbs. The difference between 2.5 and 3.5 lbs of helmet weight is significant; adding ~22% more mass vs adding ~32% more mass, and the 3.5lb mask is a full 40% heavier than the 2.5lb mask. When we're usually getting hit in the head by 6oz pucks, that extra lb of helmet weight should do a lot to reduce how much our head moves on a flat impact. Padding thickness should also work better with a stiffer shell (less deformation of the shell means a more even spread of energy throughout the foam, and less energy transfer from impacts overall), at least so far as puck impacts are concerned. (though the trade-off between stiffness and weight seems to be an open question) I think the shape of the shell matters far less than the thickness of the padding, the weight, and the stiffness
  19. I assume we can expect similar levels of performance from Coveted models that weren't specifically tested here?
  20. It's funny because the Sith's Rule of Two ethos is explicitly about disrespecting your elders (by killing them so you can take their place).
  21. I would gradually loosen the entire leg channel bit by bit, until either the the pad is rotating the way you want, or you identify precisely where the most friction is. Do some butterflies, some crease movements and really focus on how the pad feels when it rotates around your leg. Take some time at the start or end of practice, make some adjustments, and then immediately test them.
  22. The tighter you make the leg channel, the more friction the pad experiences when it tries to rotate. This isn't an issue when you butterfly, because the shape of the pad, the force of your body, and the contact with the ice all combine to rotate the pad around your leg. But when you lift your legs up, the only thing acting to re-center the pad on your leg is gravity. If you want the pad to rotate back when your leg lifts up, I'd suggest loosening the calf straps, and maybe the professor strap as well.
  23. "Squarely" as in "the puck directly hits the unsharpened toe of the blade". And I guess I just don't think any chance of this kind of blade/runner failure is acceptable, when there are runner designs which also allow you to quickly exchange blades that don't experience the same problem. It's a shoddy design, plain and simple, and it's long past time Bauer changed it.
  24. I am, yeah, but Beer League Joe still took my blades off several times. It's not just about the speed of the shot, but how much force transfers into the blade, and into the retention mechanism. Simple fact is that the retention mechanism is designed badly. The blade popping out when a puck hits it shouldn't even be a possibility, no matter how hard the shot is.
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