SixThreeStopper

On 8/19/2022 at 5:40 PM, Chenner29 said:

Carey Price effect IMO.

He started using one so people came around on it

This is bigger than you think, and it has a lot to do with CCM. No/removeable boot, double T, 600 break, one-piece cuffs, elastic toe... A bunch of things that now make many pads look like slight iterations of one another.

On 5/29/2022 at 5:33 AM, Punisher Goalie said:

No, for me I just wanted a rigid (non-elastic) strap instead of the stock elastic. It just so happens that the included professor strap can be repurposed for this. This is basically what I would have built for myself if I had to make it from scratch, so I got lucky!

Almost like leather, hmmm

Third world solutions protecting my vision. Hard pass.

On 11/16/2021 at 11:31 AM, A.YOUNGoalie13 said:

One lightest pads on the market External breaks have been getting less popular for years. Crawford had none, Smith has none, Tokarski who wears a pad style of your apparent era has no outer breaks either. Bauer has evolved the gear industry in a way like none other over the past 10 to 15 years. Evolution is good for the game.

Bauer has shown the rest of the industry that prefers to make gear overseas how to do it in a marketable way. For the industry itself and pros that get stuff replaced with little to no financial impact, awesome. For those that value durability and long-term quality, not so much. To each his own, but let's not pretend the build quality is on par with Canadian-made gear. It can't be and isn't intended to.

Something else that works great for beefing up heart guards is using the belly pad that often comes with your pants. To me, those are redundant and a little annoying if they're floppy, but are the proper shape in many cases to Speedy Stitch onto your chest.

10 hours ago, TheGoalNet said:

@SixThreeStopper that your lid or just sharing one you like?

No, that's mine. Had it for a couple years. Ray Bishop did a phenomenal job on it.