Colander

Hey Joe: Glad to see you back on the ice. Interesting: I’ve known people who took literally years to learn to stop on skates. Apparently all they needed to do was come to this game and play D for you inside your blue line.

Not how I see it. Shinny is tough enough. When its 4:4 the advantage goes to the forwards who want to skate, because the D never does, as shown in your latest video – 2:0s were the flavour of the day in that skate Lots of good saves and the glove was on as usual.

Glad to see you are able to get out a bit Joe -hope that means things are settling down with the parent(s). Great game - the stop at ~0:33 was textbook rebound control - something a lot of goalies could learn from. #37 in white is too big to move - cup check is the only solution! Keep posting!

For those of us under 6'3, please visit the egress

For brevity I didn't launch into it in my previous post, but back in the'70s you didn't get a length printed on a stick, it was always lie. You just found one that worked for you and hoped like hell they didn't sop making them (luckily around here it was SherWood - only the rich kids could afford Koho). I have seen lie values printed on some sticks now, but it's few and far between. It's interesting that such an important piece of goaltending hardware can be fairly well defined by two values and presently you usually only get one (length) and that value isn't even standardized.I guess until the NHL suspects sticks are limiting the number of goals scored, they won't force manufacturers to standardize in any way (tongue heavily in cheek)

OK – I will see @RichMan’s 2cents (so you at least get 4 cents out of this if nothing more). The place I would be concerned about this thread is a newbie trying to use the data here as a gauge for stick height. In the first case, as we all know the proclaimed stick length vs. reality can be a crapshoot. There doesn’t even seem to be a standard measuring procedure to quantify length (i.e. start and stop points to measure between), so trying to compare size by advertised dimensions is tenuous. Secondly, as mentioned elsewhere, the lie plays into the overall height of a stick. Without factoring that in the waters become muddier. Finally and most importantly, per RichMan’s observations, there is a lot to consider with regard to stance and style of play when considering a stick length – dare I say this is the most important point? When I returned to the position, I started with a 26” stick because I read on one forum that no adult goalie should play with anything shorter. That succeeded for me – succeeded to screw up my balance and result in a load of goals going in stick side under my arm. As an experiment, I decided to determine the proper height for a stick blind to printed size (by using a mock) and ended up (by physical comparison to the mock) trying a cheap 23.5” Bauer - yes, intermediate sizing. Suddenly the under-the-blocker-arm goals became pretty well non existent, and my movement in the net a lot smoother, as my stance was not being driven by my stick (goals against took a noticeable drop). On page 1 of this post, @Fullright stated he is 5’-5” and uses a 25” or 26” stick. Even though I am 2.5 inches taller than him I use a stick (advertised as) 1.5” – 2.5” shorter than his. This isn't surprising as any of you familiar with Fullright's videos knows he plays a very skilled standup stye. Even though we are close to the same "vintage" I play more of a b-fly biased-hybrid style", seeing as I wasn't stopping anything staying up anyway (not that b-fly has helped any).

I'm confused - are we talking about the ones on the left and centre, or the one on the right?

Next thing you are going to say is you pulled a groin...

Pearkes Green?

...when you are so pissed off swear words alone just can't do it

For those of you removed from the pacific northwest, a long time ago (early '80s?) Seattle dubbed itself "The Emerald City". So "Wizards" or "Flying Monkeys" - take your pick....

Well if you're looking to start dating again, you're out of luck as she died 15 years ago...

Good comeback Coop - I suggest now throwing in something bad about his mother...possibly including army boots - oooh snap!

Man, that is all sorts of pain just looking at it. All kidding aside, I'm really sorry about the injury. As you said, at least the season is clear for a while, so thank goodness for the small graces. Here hoping for as quick a recovery as possible.

Holy crap - no wonder I couldn't find any drywall screws at Home Depot last time I went! What happened there? Quick kick after the wife/girlfriend spotted you looking the wrong way?

Are you making your shirts out of old goalie pads? Mmmm - somewhat rigid, but only a little sweaty...

Tell me they are in a man cave somewhere! That is the one thing I always wished I had - but of course back in the day, only the best goalies had them. The rest of us had the plastic-booted-ungussetted Bauers

Awesomeness Bunny !

LOL or a very clumsy oven mitt

I don't know how you guys keep your stuff in such good shape. My old Cooper leather gear disintegrated probably two days after I sold it in the early '90s... You guys need to rattle @Fullright's cage and get him to display his (used weekly) gear!

Sort of veering back to the original subject, at least with respect to team name and fish, one other could be "Steelheads" - I could see all sorts of caricatures for that one LOL

Oh man - very little beats salmon on the barbecue, or in my case, beer-b-que. If you live in this part of the world and have ever had the opportunity to attend a First Nations barbecue, you know how delicious salmon can be! Great - still two hours to lunch

@MTH "WTF is a sockeye?" Sockeye, Chinook,Pink, Chum, and Coho are all types of salmon. A lot of people living out here (BC/Washington state/Oregon) make their living fishing, especially for salmon. Pike's Place Market in Seattle is a popular fish market which has a lot of pubs, eateries etc and is quite the tourist attraction. Actually, spelled differently the Seattle "Kohos" would be kind of a neat tie in to the equipment, but probably only to goalies...

That looks like a very brittle fracture. Between that and its proximity to the weld I would guess its a result of some sort of heat induced brittleness created during the welding process.

Nooo - simply turn them upside down, slip the blades under your armpits and voila vintage/heritage/ some other buzzword - crutches - for us old guys after the game