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You're a set of Warrior gear and a receding hair line away from being a typical adult beer league goalie

Dude a bunch of guys on your team gained weight

Honestly, I hate to be one of those guys as my initial comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but I LOVE this car: I drive a lot for work. Anywhere from 600-800mi/week. I got my Tesla in April 2020, it's already at 24k miles My electric bill has gone maybe $100-150/mo. I'm always topped off after an overnight charge On the flip side, gas here in SoCal is around $4.00/gal - I'd be paying around $50-60 to top off each time, and would probably need to pump twice/week. Figure a sedan with a 15 gallon tank gets 35 mi/gal = 525 mi to empty My company gives me a vehicle allowance plus mileage reimbursement. Even after factoring in my monthly payment, insurance, and charging costs, I am still making a couple hundred bucks a month off driving this thing around. I'm not saying it's the perfect car for everyone, but it's a stellar fucking car for me, working as an outside sales rep: The trunk fits my gear bag easy, pads and sticks have to go in the backseat though (with two childseats installed). There's additional storage space under the trunk or under the front hood for PPE when I need to visit a construction site Autopilot on freeways allows me to run conference/customer calls during an hour+ long commute each way. Autopilot keeps you in your current lane at the speed you set, or it will match the speed of the car in front of you - it's like a smarter cruise control Nav, GPS, places of interest and rerouting is all built in I can park for some lunch, stream an episode of New Girl (currently on my 4th run through, Schmidt is my spirit animal) or whatever else I'm watching on Netflix for 30 mins and then move on to my next sales call Spotify streaming is built in, so I can listen to whatever I (or my kids) want - my son is hot on the Transformers 1986 movie soundtrack right now, my daughter is hooked on the music from Mulan - I'll never have to buy another CD ever again DashCam/security is all built in, just plug in and format a USB hard drive. No more driving to the dealership for service and having them try to sell me weird shit. I only have to rotate my tires every 5k miles, and they come to my house to do it for $40. I've forgotten to charge overnight once, and was able to stop by a charging station and get enough juice for the day with a 10 minute charge Another time I drove over a single charge capacity (280+ mi), topped off in 30 mins while watching some Netflix in the car while enjoying some barbecue from a nearby restaurant

Boys and girls, Kick @ArdeFIN some recognition here, he's carried this thread to the finish line - upvote his posts if you can.

:laughs in smug Tesla owner:

Cherry picking comments here, but the 960 shape has been around for over 30 years? RE: "most copied product in hockey" - IMO the original Vaughn Velocity 1 earns this one. It seems like everyone had a copy out within a year of that pad release... from the obvious (Battram), to fringe companies (Sherwood, Torspo, D&R, Hespeler...list goes on). The bigger manufacturers would follow after - Itech (9.8?), Bauer (X90?), CCM (Eflex1)

What metric(s) are we using to rank these brands? Pro adoption? Retail sales? Innovating on a "big ticket" ideas that other companies have adopted? Below are the big ticket ideas of each, I probably missed a few, maybe others can help me flesh it out. Bauer - +: CORTech, cowlingless skates, composite sticks, Poron XRD, CURV composite, Innegra mask inner layer True - +: Custom skate process Warrior - +: Ritual line, C/A arms (robo arms) Brian's - Optislide, smart strapping CCM - D30, menu-driven custom program Vaughn - Carbon fiber inserts, Scrivens strap Since a few folks brought up acquisitions, these are the ones I can think of - Bauer - Itech, who bought Jerry Wright's designs. The 960 is 30+ years old. Does this still count as "innovation" at this point True - Lefevre. 3 out of their 4 lines are legacy products from their time with CCM. Bought VH for their custom skates Warrior - Innovative(?) for their stick technology. Contracted/brought in Pete Smith to start the Ritual line (Messiah was a total disaster IIRC CCM - if we really wanna go back, acquisitions of Heaton/Koho/Jofa/Canadien/Titan Vaughn - Graf, Eagle, Tackla, Brian's. Partnership with Pro's Choice

I'm guessing they probably switched some people around. Not sure if these guys are actually starting or not as I haven't really been following Bernier - Detroit Edmonton - Smith Nashville - Rinne Florida - Bobrovsky is partially in True

31 * .41 = 12.71 So we gotta find 12 goalies and almost 3/4 of one

I think it’s from the True IG feed and has been making its way around all social media outlets.

No warts? Send 'em back! JK

Thanks for sharing, love watching these guys work Demko's post entry and exits are so polished Holtby's numbers in Washington were on a downward trend, even during his Cup year

Man, this hits hard.

I dunno man. For a mask shop whose tagline is "the Cradle of Creativity," this mask looks "typical DaveArt" - Tilted, oversized logo over ears Ghosted alternate logos all over (sasquatch feet) Overuse of the shiny/bling effect

Tesla Cybertruck you can change the horn and passive driving noise. Change either to the Terminator theme

First pass, I read the last sentence as concussions, got worried for a second that you've been thinking too hard

So I spotted these on Facebook today... Quote from the GGN article Seller says they are G3s, hopefully someone with more attachment to the brand can check the graphic and verify. So if G5 was released 2020, G4 would have been 2018, then these would have been 2016 - placing them around his time with Chicago.

Stay out of this Derek, or I'm gonna punch you out of my treehouse

Did we just become best friends?

It’s supposed to be a partial of the Preds logo?

Here's my current. Very pleased with it. Much better than the Passau backpack bag IMO https://www.pacificrink.com/products/goalie-bag?variant=22691903111253

Depends where you're looking Facebook: Civilized discussion on political policy Instagram: Your friends photoshopped into nice scenery, in front of nice cars, next to attractive people, etc. Instagram (2): Your friends from High School posting about how much they love "being their own boss" while shilling useless junk for a multi level marketing company LinkedIn: Your friend posting about a job interview experience, but bumped into a homeless crack addict while riding their 5 speed mountain bike to the interview because they're environmentally conscious. Out of the goodness of their heart, your friend buys said homeless drug addict lunch, gives him some money, endorses him through rehab, co-signs on an auto loan and helps him repair his relationship with his estranged wife. Then your friend finds out the homeless drug addict was CEO of the company your friend was interviewing for all along and this was all a test. Your friend gets the job as an entry level customer service rep. LinkedIn (2): Endless recruiter spam for jobs you are over/underqualified for Reddit: Cat pictures Twitter: Social justice warriors

Glad you brought up Itech. I can definitely draw some parallels between their lines in the mid-00s and what Warrior is doing now. They tried some funky stuff back then at retail and were able to retain a good crop of pro goalies. Fortunately, they could lean on JRZ to manufacture for retail and customize for Pro. For the bolded part, not saying you're wrong, but I am a bit pessimistic for a few reasons: First, the brand still does not have much exposure at the NCAA/CHL level. I think this is a critical point in a player's growth cycle, and guys will hisotrically take what they used there when they break into pro hockey. Best example I can think off off the hop is the seeing loyalty to the Itech/Bauer style masks in CHL alum. Second, I always roll my eyes when brands issue emphatic statements like they "choose not to be at the NHL level" because they "refuse to pay endorsement fees" (whether league or player). IMO seeing unbranded Lefevre during bubble hockey last year was proof that an unbranded line with fairly limited customization options would gain support if the players wanted it. I understand not wanting to service a specific pro athlete for other reasons (brand imaging, athlete is too demanding, company lacks the staffing/resources to service them, etc), but if a pro goalie is willing to take a bone stock Warrior G5 or Passau Starke or a Battram "whatever-they're-called" without branding, why wouldn't they sell it? IMO when a company preemptively removes themselves from the conversation, they are changing the dialogue from "not good enough" or "not wanted at the pro level" to "is it good enough for me as a consumer." There is an important distinction in those first two statements, as a lot of folks might generalize "not wanted at the pro level" into becoming "not good enough for pros, why would I buy it"

Taking "innovation" out of the equation and looking at overall design (knee blocks, shin cradle, calf wrap, etc), Bauer and Brian's still lean pretty conservative IMO when compared to Warrior - there are pillows, bumps, and ridges in abundance on the Warrior gear that aren't seen with any other manufacturer. Euro goalies always seem to be a bit more liberal in their gear choices. Have we seen a heavily equipped Euro/Warrior goalie come over to North America and have to switch? @coopaloop1234, saw your response as I was clicking to post I think it's relevant to your point.

IMO Warrior would need to ALSO be willing to pay an athlete to endorse the gear, AND be willing to extensively modify/clone gear (like they did with Roloson and Gustavsson). Their stock gear is too far of a departure from what guys are currently wearing. I'm recalling a story/interaction from maybe 14-15 years ago on GSBB, We had a guy on there who played minor pro and was a big RBK/Lefevre guy. (Nick Boucher?) He said Lefevre would call him a couple weeks before the season to go over specs and discuss things they were trying out, updates, etc. Point of the story is to illustrate this: It's not like this is Warrior or a brand new company trying to start from scratch. From a sales standpoint, Lefevre has some key critical pieces to close: solid industry reputation, prior relationship, player specs, and direct access to the athlete.