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The 2020 Saabs are sweet.

What car is that? I see right hand drive and Skyline style tail lights. Not in the States... need details!

My buddies call me the museum. My retirement press conference will be held in the parking lot of the rink. Should be rad.

I'm retiring after this season. I have a garage of old ass gear. My kids will never use it. I'll get some up here soon.

Ooooooooooooooo....................

WTF is a sockeye? Could be the worst name of a pro team I ever heard. And that's a lot with some of these clown show minor league baseball team names. Sockeye? Like? Chris Brown was just a Seattle hockey fan. Who knew?

Thanks. That's the mask.

Jose Theodore with the Wild: Fresh on the Wild using his old Caps mask while his new Wild one was being painted.

Sorry man. I joined the mask brigade. My sportmask mage is pretty nice. Still hold combos dear to my heart.

"That's Fantastic!" Your helmet is amazing. The colors matching so well reminded me of Reggie Dunlop's iconic outfit.

Feel free to put your old GSBB handle too. Most of us remember the members there. I promise I won't ban you at the GSBB. But if you want one for fun, I'll happily oblige as I'm still a mod there.

Trump wins again. Bringing more jobs to America from the evil north.... (this is in fun) Honestly, nice that they are still staying around. Added plus in the states.

Ocean hockey supply is under the stands at the rink. You can see it in this picture:

So true. Ever been down to the Ocean Ice Palace and seen the Ocean Hockey shop? It's pretty cool. Similar to the Del Val store. Rink is amazing. Also had Rupp's hockey and whatever ads were in the back of the then newspaper version of the The Hockey News. The corner store in Westville carried THN for me and my buddies to buy. Also Hockey Digest had gear ads written in 1/2" font. I'd memorize the prices. I used to call the stores and request catalogs in a fake adult voice. Damn the internet!

Yeah, sadly the Firestone tire mess. Nearly 300 people were killed. Terrible. Ford had such a head start on the SUV market that they made some sloppy Explorers that sold as fast as they could make them. Now, with all the car makers all caught up (and ahead); I think the Explorer is a way better vehicle than versions past. The Firestone Wilderness in specific size and plant were the issue. You had to look at the code that was stamped on them. I know the tires were on a ton of the 2 door versions. The added plus was that the roof was nowhere as strong in rollovers as it should have been. So when the tire went, and the SUV rolled, the roof just caved in and made it that much worse. The rusting sideboards were a common issue. I don't know if Ford ever addressed that in a recall or TSB. But they would hold so much salt and moisture against the body that the steps would rot right off. So many issues. I feel your hesitation on the big 3 too. I can attest after owning 2 four door Wranglers that they don't have any real issues. Why I bought another one after driving my first one nearly 175k miles. I plan on picking up the Wrangler pickup next in a year or two and giving my current four door Wrangler to my now 12 year old son.

Love the term "exploder". Reminds me of these fun days: Exploding tires and defective roofs on the Explorer was a GREAT combo...

TCG - What is that? I'm guessing a Buick Skylark? Don't be offended if I'm way off, I don't know the classics that well.

Keith Kinkaid wearing his devils gear and Team USA lid with the Jackets until his new crap art mask is ready.

This is going for just $200k right now. It's a pretty rare ride. Crappy for putting gear into. But if I had this, I wouldn't my waste time playing hockey and go drive this around instead... Weeeeeee!

Kevin Hodson was a Detroit goalie in the 90s. Started out wearing his all black gear from juniors: Give him some points for going with the black based gear with red trim. For a Red Wings goalie - way radical. Eventually went to red and white gear (with black still at first). Even had some OG iceberg pads (kick rocks Cam Ward!!!) He was traded to the Lightning: Full Wings gear. Can see the red mask peeking through the black over paint too. Then he spray bombed those Vaughns... Last seen rocking some nice Velocity 1s in Tampa Colors.

Sucks he's from the Philly area too... Must have pissed off the Flyers something fierce to be shipped off to Edmonton. Guess it's better than Ohio.

By the time the trainer cuts all the little pieces of navy out... he'll have new gear. Why bother?

Here's one: Craig Billington was traded from the Devils to Senators. Colors were the same, so the gear worked. The devils mask wasn't too much out of line either too. Senators paint: ** Of note - per Hockey BD, Biller was traded to the Senators in June 1993. Yet he went into Senators camp and started the season still wearing his Devils mask. Would never happen today. Ever!

I recently jumped in with my sons AAA PW team for a practice when one of their goalies called out. Practice was my first ice hockey practice ever. I started playing ice hockey as an adult. Was fun as heck.

I had to take almost two weeks off to heal. I recently took one under my chest pad from the faceoff dot from this dude: You could see the 1x3 imprint in my stomach after the game. Days later it looked like I was hit by a car. No pics... no need. The Danville Dashers of the FHL.