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I bought another Crew Defender, it’s going to be a road warrior set up with aero TT bars, tri-spokes and looking mean and lean. Pix to come…

Had a pretty good game last night. After letting in a goal on the first shot, I managed to get the win. Weirdly, my team started playing defense after I would bail them out and if the goal I let in was impossible to defend against. My tending partner was getting shelled. But the increase in my fitness has translated to better games in net.

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I am seeing how not staying at a healthy weight is killing my parents and I don’t want the same.

Down to 167.6 pounds (12 stone, 76 kg). I will feel great when I get to 10 stone. Still losing despite enjoying my beer, though I have conceded to low carb beer. If I want to not be big as a bloody house, that is the sacrifice I make…

We are NOT the only Leah Hextall anti-fans. There are legions of them. Kelly Nash for play-by-play? Oh HELL’S yeah!!!!! As long as you see her in that leather dress…

A buddy of mine still plays with foam core. He thinks they’ll be available forever as long as he can get them through prostockheckey.com. I think he will have to switch eventually. I have several Bauer Hybrid and even a bunch of full wood and wooden foam cores left. I am in love with the Bauer Hybrids and I will be crushed when I can’t find any more. I hope to play into my 70s. I suppose I could roll my own.

Then I bet your cat would have had a similar reaction to the female play-by-play announcer! I don’t want it to sound like I have it out against female play-by-play, as there are PLENTY of bad male ones. This female in particular is just BAD.

66139904291__25DBC598-D2E1-40AF-AF38-A98965A18DF7.MOV Reenactment of female play by play…

NJ Devils used to do that. They were notorious for sending down everything and by the time it got to the third tier, it was stinky and full of stitches.

One of my broadcasting teachers was female, but had this smoky, husky voice. She could have pulled off play-by-play.

There was one doing play-by-play and when she would screetch “He scores!”, it pierced my eardrums!

I broke into the 160s. I think I finally got past the plateau. I had to blast a few new reps into the interval work. Today is a long, aerobic workout: 1:20 on treadmill and :40 on the bike.

Lundy WAS the R&D for the OD1N tech for Bauer. If anyone is going to be the best field testing for R&D, it is someone who plays for a living. Labs only do so much. You have to make certain it’s safe in a lab, but field testing is KEY. I was lucky to be able to have access to some of the best and brightest testing my stuff. Of course the prototypes were disguised. Most were very gracious yet were unafraid to tell me what needs to be there, what needs to be gone, and were EXTREMELY helpful. Having pro athletes in your stuff is VERY much an asset!

Take away that warranty and the cost goes down SIGNIFICANTLY. Pro stock has NO WARRANTY. That was the biggest part of my pricing on my bikes and parts was figuring in the warranty costs to repair or replace. I also supplied a few people with no warranty products, with no labelling, second quality finishing and it was significantly cheaper. The rider in question would many times put a brand (who sponsored them) onto said item.

I actually know it. What you have to remember is that they are supplying to the league to get you and I into their gear. The retail part of pricing is eliminated. Warranty is one of the biggest costs figured into pricing. There is no warranty on pro stock gear. The gear companies are still making enough money to make it worthwhile, as they are not charities when it comes to the pros. The companies also pay a fee to the league for logos to appear. Some sports leagues have fees that are paid to the teams in order to even be an option for a player to choose that piece of gear. What you need to remember, as well, is that the pros are a big part of R&D. Most bugs are worked out in gear supplied to the pros. I also don’t think that sporting goods stores sell to the pros like they did in the old days.

There is that. But they pay far less than we do, as there is no warranty and the sheer volume. I am saying the pressure is from the league. There is something to be said for the crispness of new gear.

Maybe not. It’s just weird that less than 20 years back, you regularly saw guys with ancient gear, players with (sometimes crudely) painted helmets and stuff so full of stitches that it wasn’t funny. Player gloves are regularly being replaced the second they look a bit worn. Practise jerseys are even not being patched all that often, though I have a Niemi practise sweater that has a few stitches and visible board burns. Now, it seems that there are sets of pads curated from each period of the Stanley Cup being sold by the teams in auctions or donated to the HOF. Irbe was definitely an extreme case, but looking at sports cards and pics from the 90s, you saw visible patching on the gear. A pair of Lehtonen pads I own aren’t all that marked up. I dressed with a recent former pro a few weeks back. His breezers, helmet and gloves looked relatively new, but his shin pads rivaled Craig Ludwig’s for most spread and worn out, and his elbow pads were three sizes too small and had the Cooper brand mark. His shoulder pads were a pair of Flak, which I haven’t seen those in 30 years! It took a roll of tape to put him together! And he was wearing his Parkway West sweater from high school! And his gear was super stinky! I guess what I am saying is that I surmise there is some pressure from the league to not have super worn out stuff that can be seen as you don’t even see any Krylon on stuff these days and the helmets shine like polished jewellery. I am assuming that the goalies are being pressured the same way to a degree.

How about not making goalies replace gear when it has a few marks on it? I love marked up white gear!

Sensible solution. Bettman needs to read this.

Sara started out like all of us tinkerers.

I miss the diverse styles of tending we took for granted just twenty or so years ago!

I imagine if there were any CWD’s upcoming in the NHL, the ear flaps would be mandatory. Nobody wore them (for the most part)!

Gotcha. If they were still around, you could have knocked me over with a feather.

I was under the impression that Monster hockey is no more. From what I recall, there were short J-hooks rather than snaps.