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Here is pretty mild compared to the rest of you guys. I have 4 sheets and 2 leagues within a half hour drive, but stick to 1 rink that has 2 sheets during the winter (one of the others completely shuts down in the off season) so I’ll explain that. tier II travel youth hockey is on a decline here, splitting between three organizations in the area that might have 1 team at each level. We have a tier II jr A team at our main rink and our main rink is the practice rink for the local SPHL team when their arena is being otherwise used. Daytime is instruction, figure skating, etc. Monday skating lessons, high school teams. Tue-Thur youth hockey, house 1x/wk 2-4 teams per session, travel 2x/wk full ice, shared ice with younger divisions. Fri-Sun Jr. A might have their game slots, youth, high school on Sunday nights, and and adult 4 divisions 4-5 teams/division spread throughout the afternoons evenings with the late games at 8:30. We have run into a situation where we almost have too much ice as youth hockey declined over the years. Honestly, I could see 1 of our rinks closing in the next 5 years.

Got the machine up and running the other day…

Thanks, I was furiously all over google and Getty without any luck

Anybody have any connections to see some Minnesota Gopher sitings, coulda swore I saw some H10 graphics on the Big10 network.

Just got it, verdict is out. We’ll see after this weekend if it’s a keeper or going back up for sale. Super nice glove but fits really tight.

Guys, I’m starting to think I have a problem…

Yes and no, there’s evolution in a product line, but when a guy is requesting Porsche build a ‘65 Porsche 911 and they claim they can you would expect the drive feel to be the same, in this case the break is similar but laced much wider on the newer glove.

Those are damn sharp southpaw.

Looking to buy some M or L premier series arms. Have something by sitting around shoot me a pm.

Off the shelf with a couple minor mods. I’ll have to go through them.

Just some homemade vinyls on a Kustom Composites clone lol. I bought it this year thinking I wanted something that even if I played like shit I’d look good.

Topic came up in another thread, what equipment do you guys have at home for gear repair? I’m going to get some pics in the coming days of my setup, as I’m currently rebuilding my gear room after it being destroyed by a basement flood a couple years ago. I just picked up a China leather shoe patcher on Amazon, I have an old Brother sewing machine and like I said am building up a workspace in a different area of my basement. What do you guys have?

I just sourced some binding material on Amazon for a glove project, that being said I’m working on getting one of the leather shoe patcher machines from Amazon working for an economical gear mod/repair machine. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0823476KN/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_93KFCNSVK0Q5483R6EBF?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08K2DYDHY/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_BC5BXETX671AVQ2WNP6V I’ve been scouring FB marketplace and the like for an antique all metal singer for some of the lighter stuff I could do with a roller foot. Right now all I have done is on an awl or with a hand me down 20 year old entry level Brother machine.

Did I mention I have a cheap glove addiction? I picked up a new spec pro return 5500 pro return to use with a set of white pads, but the break was messed up on it so it is coming apart and is going to be soaked and get some help before going together. Vaughn changed the break sometime in the 15 years between these gloves making it wider at the medial (pinky) side. I’m not as much of a fan, so this one is just going to get a clean and some patching before it’s back to sideline swap. Crazy what little changed over 15ish years between these two gloves (2001-2016?). i noticed Vaughn added a viscous gel pad to the palm and surprise surprise the plastics got thinner, but not necessarily better. IMG_1583.MP4

There is a slice of that orange foam on each side of the plastic on the edge of the glove, I’m guessing just for energy dispersion and to ease tension on the nylon on the backhand. I’m going to need to replace the dark blue section of foam, the back of thumb plastics cut a groove into it. Otherwise things look pretty good. This is going to get a fresh jenpro/cordura face and some of the backhand nylon replaced. I’m waiting to put together a fresh inner glove to sew together as the original was worn pretty thin. I’m probably putting more work into this than it’s worth, but it’s a project for me out of interest rather than necessity. I have my R/GT glove and a Factory Mad glove in the mail. I’m pretty tempted to pick up a 3500 on sideline swap since I’m developing a cheap glove addiction.

I’m in a split house, my wife being from Chicago and my former StL minor league connections make things interesting. I couldn’t help turning to her and gloating that the Blues now have 2 more outdoor wins than the Blackhawks last night. OT semi-relevant engagement photo:

I added some vivid wrap to my knee wings last week. Sliding was on par with the 1S pads I’m trying. I didn’t use a heat gun for the application and will probably re-do it so I can get a bit cleaner application as I missed a small piece trimming the edges and am getting a bit of peeling.

I played in a local youth organization alumni game last week and they had a photographer! That being said, luckily I had a matching set lol.

I was in a Bauer 4500 for a minute while waiting on my Kustom Composites SK clone. Not many flat spots. I was looking for an old Bauer 5000 or something similar…

Was there any material on the back side of the boot riser or was it just the core foam at that point?

I’m at a bit of a standstill right now waiting on materials, debating how much curl I should remove from the plastics, I felt like the closure was perfect, but materials were just worn so I’m probably going to let sleeping dogs lie on this one. In also debating replacing the felt with some kemmler air2gel I have sitting around, do you guys see this as overkill?

I’m doing a re-skinning project on a set and am considering a Nash face vs a cordura face (yes, I grew up in old school Vaughn gear). Has anyone messed with these materials on a modern blocker? Would the aesthetics take too much away from the performance? I still want somewhat hot, controllable rebounds.

Slight revival… 5’ 11”, just moved from a Warrior M1 25 to a V1 23.5, no more getting beat 6 hole, but now I have a stick that doesn’t reach the ice when I’m not in my stance lol. Anybody looking for a 25” M1 sr for cheap?

This has me thinking, if I sew this tape on a pad skinned completely in cordura, will it’s sliding be any worse than any Jenpro pad?

All in all, for $20 plus shipping, I have a good template to clone, pulled the palm apart tonight. As suspected there was a gel pack in the palm that burst, anyone know anything about those? Not unexpected since the glove is from 2000, but sucks that is probably what wrecked the rest of the padding. It will be getting some kemmler air2gel in the palm probably at some point and a bindingless cuff. Wrist strap is getting removed as well, didn’t realize how much I liked not having that until my GT glove.