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Yo, that's my queue. I have a confirmed 4mm labral tear in my left hip (that I probably had fully form in like 2022, frankly). I originally got sent on a 6 week PT stint (by my orthopedic) and then got the okay to test it. Shit still hurt pretty bad oops. So then I finished the season, and have been on a 3 months PT, no playing (was still coaching but not demoing stuff for the kids) stint. I finally got to test it again this week (Tuesday) and it hurt pretty bad, but I had also just gotten a booster shot and I think that made everything hurt, because oddly enough zero pain the next day (including at PT). I'm testing again tomorrow in the early afternoon, so I'll report back (tomorrow!) with hopefully a better outing. I think I'm going to use my more set of steel. The longer summary is my PT has been entirely strength training. My routine is basically: warm-up on a bike for 8 minutes, get stretched out, single leg bridges, resistance band with fondas and sideways knee spreads, high resistance with side steps and backwards-diagonal steps, squats (I'm up to 175 lbs on the bar) at 3 sets of 6 with two lead up sets at lower weights, 3x10 deadlifts with a trap bar (170 lbs thus far), 2x15 2sec pause weighted (8 kg) split squats, 2x10 kick backs on a shuttle at I think 40 lbs, 3x15 single leg lying press at 120 lbs, weighted (12 kg) 3x10 1 foot step ups, 3x20sec side planks (adductor and abductor), 1x15 reverse deadlift with 16 kg, farmer carry (each hand has 22 kg) followed by single arm with same weight, 3x45sec resistance banded wall sit, and I might be forgetting something else. It's a pretty good workout and has yielded me a certified dumptruck for a posterior. It's been awhile, and sometimes it does feel kind of like it hurts. If your pain is like mine, it's a very specific and pointed burning feeling right in the socket. What sucks for me is that I have rather loose ligaments, so my hips (and shoulders) are totally fine dropping out of socket in certain positions. This is cool and all for being able to do the splits, but awful for the soft tissue. I sometimes go through days/efforts where I wish they'd just rip it up and repair it, even if that means I'll be out for 6 months, but I have to remain hopeful other times too.

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Yeah, Sherwood had that with the 9980 and Cerberus lines. The Blockade's giant, and long, calf pillow was a definite issue.

That flat boot I have is on a GNETiKV, so it's not the flatest, but is still reasonably flat. Anyhow, it does help with letting your foot rotate a bit when going down, doesn't have anything to really get in the way during movement when down (compared to a pad that had a shallow boot, but still had it with the GNETiKIV and G3NETiK). I generally like it when playing, as long as the rest of the pad feels connected (since I like a connected pad feel). I do like it when there's a boot channel as well, if only for the connected feel it offers, but don't love when anything gets in the way. A potential downside to this is if your foot doesn't go right into the crook of the pad (whether because of sizing or strapping), it'll feel like there's a bit of a gap at the lower calf (my GNETiKVs do this, my other pads didn't). Edit to add opinion: I think the flat boot concept with an "open angle" boot break is pretty pointless. If there's not a strap low enough or tight enough to the calf, this can cause the pad to slough off the front of the toe and feel disconnected in a way that I (personally) find to feel terrible on the leg. Other experiences with rather flat boot pads I've worn have been positive as well: I liked how the PX3 boot felt a lot, especially because it has a semblance of a boot and leg channel so the pad still feels strongly connected (part of the leg, not on top of the leg), without it being deep enough to get in the way. The 3X I got to try felt very mobile, especially with the current feel of the newer "soft" Bauer pads being springy instead of what would traditionally be a "soft" feel. The flat boot paired with this made it a pad that was exceptionally easy to move around in. The Velocity 10 I tried on was already too big for me, the flat boot added to that bulk, so when it doesn't fit correctly it's perhaps less forgiving? Unsure. Other, maybe obvious statement, is that it makes the pad sit higher on your leg. This can make sizing kind of a pain for those that don't have easy access to trying stuff on (a boat I am in). I don't think this trend is really going away, I'm not sure what having a deep boot would offer to modern goaltenders that is more desirable than the mobility offered by the newer design. I'm definitely interested to see what happens next in leg pads.

I know we enjoy making fun of DaveArt mask designs, but I usually try to wait to see how they look on a broadcast before fully judging them. Some of them do work, though a lot do not. I do like this on, at least a basis, and think it might look nice in their home unis.

Those are gorgeous, super cool to see!

You also gotta share the spec sheet.

That is in no way a flop. He definitely stuck out his leg to trip (or at least block the path), but that is certainly not a flop. Not sure how you managed to read that as such, frankly.

Saros is no longer in a thick-mid thigh on his PX3s. I noticed Kochetkov didn't play in the EFlex6s when he got the start the other day too.

That's actually pretty cool. I like the feel on the ASV stick shape quite a lot.

Pretty sure that says "stiff" with regards to the core.

I don't think I dealt with G6 E pads. Maybe I'm hallucinating (which my googling tells me I am), but I thought there was a model between the Pro+ and the E+. Maybe I was dealing with a top end intermediate pad. The thing with the Vapor is that it's a springy pad. I don't want to act like I'm huffing all of Bauer's fumes, but they really do have something with the coefficient of restitution technology (the CORtech) that they peddle with the skin and face foams. All that said, the Vapor is still a surprisingly stiff pad if you're used to an old school "soft" definition, because it's springy instead of foldable.

For what it's worth, I don't consider fingers-up to be the same as having your glove hand all up. In a thumbnail that came up for me after watching these, I would call this fingers up, but not necessarily say the glove is up. I think some breaks lend themselves better to the mechanics of your hand closing it while in a fingers up position, though that's likely different from person-to-person as everyone's anatomy is slightly different. In the end, experiment and do whatever is more comfortable for you, but be willing to adjust if it helps your game and know that no adjustment is typically met with immediate success or comfort.

I assure you there are dudes in their mid-20s to mid-30s that are also into these, though likely not $500 worth either (since some of the guys I'm playing with haven't updated their gear since high school or university and I think my youngest teammate is 25).

Not sure if it was what they would exactly label as "hypercomp" in the senior model, but I can attest that the senior model of the G6 had a very stiff thigh like it had composite in it.

The short answer is kind of. I use 600 style gloves typically (I think, I like Vaughn Velocity and Brian's GNetik style gloves, which is more conducive to a fingers-up stance since the pocket is more in line with your hand, whereas if you did that with a 580 that'd kind of put the pocket pointing at your head. It's something I started to adopt over a couple of years when transitioning from a 590 style glove to a 600 and found it helped me catch pucks a little more. For reference, I'm holding my fingers at about a 10:30 o'clock (if fingers to side is 9 o'clock and I'm measuring on my middle finger). I think it's weird that it says it's a 75° break angle, to be like a 600, which is straight-up not the angle the 600 is. I don't know what that's about. The way I teach it to the children I coach, that are older and having this conversation with me and based on how their glove presents, "let's get our hand in a way where we'll catch more pucks. It's easier to bring it down than it is to bring it up." If you're active with your hands in your stance, projecting toward the puck, it's mostly a matter of optimizing your box control on the fringes and being in tune with how your glove closes; these are rather fine tunes to make on top of more important fundamentals. All that said one of the kids I coach holds his glove like a goalie from an EA NHL game, exactly horizontal, and he hasn't been very coachable when it comes to adjusting, especially as the play calls for it.

Bob's previous 20.2s had the notch too, which was a little funny. Really the only thing True isn't offering anymore is the 4.1 for the general person, which I wonder what strings one would have to pull to make that happen. I thought CCM's used to be a little crap for that, until like the Axis line came out anyway. Vaughn's has always been great too, to give them credit.

They're in HZRDUS pads. The tell is how the thigh thins out, the outer roll, and the profile of the pad. I do think it's interesting that there were a few guys that were 20.x guys that ended up in PX3 pads (main example I can point out is Varlamov, if you want others I can dig a bit). I do find it interesting that Dostal is still in his 20.2 sets and how Soderblom is in the SLR4 (after being in the 20.2 last year). At this point, the 12.2 and PX3 are essentially melded since anyone can order the PX3 with the "mid-thick" thigh, like how the HZRDUS can be ordered with the same option to make it more like the 20.2. Obviously I can always be a little wrong, but True seems to be the least likely to totally care about skinning pads as something else just to do it. So much of the league is in the PX3 that if they were going to skin 'em as HZRDUS pads, I feel like they would have pushed that a bit harder. I'm going to pop the catalogue back down here for ease of finding it for others. That is basically what it is, like how the PX3 was the next step of the 12.2. I think their custom program is finally in a good place, only took a few revisions (which seems to be the cycle for every company, really). A lot of companies have dialed in their custom program in the last few years in ways that have come leaps-and-bounds from where it used to be.

Still waiting for this to be a thing... I'd love if stick customizers were more open to people ordering custom sticks the way the companies let for their pro clientele. I'd love to get my hands on an Oettinger grip type stick (or even a standard trigger grip, or the Merlikinz style shoulder, or things like how Lyon has the grip-tack up the entire shaft, etc.). Probably not totally factual at this point. From memory the 4.1 user list includes: Fleury, Hellebuyck, Tokarski, and Samsonov. I may be missing someone in the AHL, but I don't think so. The HZRDUS has: Comrie, Sandstrom, Bobrovsky, Blackwood, Bussi, Hill, and Montembeault.

Lol, I think their website doesn't like my VPN. I tested it on my laptop and it's there, so that's a little funny.

Yeah, that's why I said "a bit" in this case. Having the one strap, in Price's case the leather strap, makes sense to me since it does anchor it. I do know of individuals that strap up their pads without anything on the knee block (the specific example I'm thinking of is TGN with the Supreme kneeblock style pads).

Oh, neat. I would imagine the knee strap is a bit redundant with how the FRS is set up.

Hmm, interesting. I tried on a few different browsers and such, not there for me. These were actually helpful videos. Made me glad I went with the options I went with. I'm glad the videos totally showed what's different with the 12.x vs. 20.x lines in the leg channels and such too. Most interesting thing I noticed is that the HZRDUS pads, if you put just the nylon option, has no elastic strap coming out of the knee.

This button has been removed. Even gave the screenshot the patented TGN "big ole circle" treatment to be silly. Other fun note: the HZRDUS customizer now has selectable options here on the hand placement, along with mention of a 605 model: No other observed changes.