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Nice throne in Le Centre Bell

16 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

This morning was fun. 

 

Nice! Congrats,  great pic.

31 minutes ago, creasecollector said:

Setup of the year.

Seems reasonable to me, no arguments so far.  

#68

I was just trying to buy my partner a tshirt and they had these at the shop.  Goddammit.   

I'm done.  Back to Montreal. 

#67

At the Sens Store all they had was this, so why not?

#65 - #66

From Ottawa, Ontario 

-Toronto Maple Leafs

-Pro Hockey Life 

#59 - #64

Made out like a bandit in Montreal.  

These 4 came from an awesome hockey souvenir shop near the Bell Center:

-Quebec Nordiques

-NHL

-Vintage Hockey Canada

- Oringinal 6

These 2 came from the Bell Center

-Montreal Canadiens

-Montreal 24 Stanley Cup Championships, which is just so perfectly gaudy and tacky, haha.  Love it. 

My trip to Ontario is tomorrow where, finally, I will get my Toronto Maple Leafs puck.  Then it's only 5 NHL teams left.

Sorokin 

https://youtu.be/CUkxH1AfLoQ?si=Lx-fghseO2r2wxsb

7 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Haven't seen anything that bad since the RBK P2 days. 

He must have gotten a good knee jolt into the ice on that shot.

14 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

That was his set last year. He's in an all white setup for his away jerseys. 

Plus the whole "Eflex 5" might be a give away too.  

Right

The over-rotation itself was worth posting though, haha.

Holy over-rotation!

Sorry if this is not a current image, but it was posted in an article today on nhl.com which I posted in the chit-chat thread

https://www.nhl.com/news/unmasked-save-percentage-on-the-decline-despite-better-goaltending

6 minutes ago, Toobs said:

Thanks! I’ve been a lurker here for a while, finally decided to make an account. 

Sadly not my first custom set, I’m a bit of a gear whore. First Vaughn custom set since V5s in 2011 though.

With the glove, I really only wanted the break angle of the XP70 as I’m a 580 user, but felt like the XP look didn’t mesh as well with the retro look, so asked Vaughn to make an XP70 look as retro as possible and this is what they came up with. 

Nice man, you're gonna fit in very well with us here, then.  I'm in Bauer now but I've had custom V1, V4, V6, VE8, and V9 sets.  Lifelong Vaughn user.  

2 hours ago, Toobs said:

Hey all, new to the board, but thought I’d show off my new set. Custom SLR3 with an XP70 glove. 

Awesome looking set, congrats.  And welcome to the forum.  Is that your first custom set?

56 minutes ago, AdamL said:

The XP gloves do not have a laced-in break, that glove does. It's probably either an SLR3 glove or a V9 two-piece glove with the appearance of a solid cuff.

Isn't the board on the XP gloves usually flat too?  The normal Velocity gloves have the curl like yours does @Toobs.  Was that an option for you as well?

21 hours ago, coopaloop1234 said:

I'm never a fan of the sketchbook styled masks. They look beer leaguey 

18 hours ago, keeperton said:

The Can-o'-Krylon special looks beer league. I think it's only Ingram and Georgiev that have the colorless look this year.

Uhhhhh.........oof.

I heard on NHL radio today that Ottawa has signed Craig Anderson to a one day contract so he can retire as a Senator.

Good move, well-deserved.

13 minutes ago, keeperton said:

His mask is so nice.

Goes with all teams!

Cool pic of Georgiev .  Very wide flare, jeez

As someone who has toggled between a Bauer and Sportmask in the same week, the strapping setups definitely feel different.  The way the backplates feel with the pressure points from the straps is different between the brands.  Just throwing that out there for you.  Have you noticed the difference?  Either one feels naturally better for you? 

Also, are you looking at certified cages or cateye cages? If the latter, Bauer cateyes and Sportmask cateyes have very different center vertical bars that sit in your field of vision very differently.   Just throwing that out there too as a difference to consider. 

34 minutes ago, IpaddyTECH said:

Doooooo it, join the dark side... 

but to be honest I'm getting a Mach blocker too. Warrior is fine to me, but Mach blocker is such a nice feel.

Yup.  I've never before felt like I could pick a spot with blocker rebounds and hit it.  The way the Machs feel in terms of directional steering/pushing the puck is incredible. 

Fleury doing Fleury things

https://x.com/Sportsnet/status/1714449253404123435?s=20

And fittingly he gets a standing ovation and 1st Star in what is perhaps his last game in Montreal. 

https://youtu.be/hBUjnjtkfkA?si=nX7ToKzFwMsM-xnW

10 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

Pulled the trigger on this stock Mach set. Been scouring Sideline for a while now and these popped up on GGSU today. 

$1850 CAD ain't bad. 

@TheGoalNet I'll take that jacket now. 

You gonna use the mitt all of a sudden?

40 minutes ago, MTH said:

You've clearly never played roller.

You can go from a 3 on 1 against them - miss the net on a hard shot - puck comes out fast and it's a 3 on 1 back at you.

3 minutes ago, coopaloop1234 said:

I don't know why anyone would subject themselves to that. 

I had to growing up in the south.  It was roller or nothing before university for me.  

Been playing for roughly....30 years now and I am pretty sure I had my first ever short-handed 3 on 1 last night on the Silvertips rink.  This was the last of our divisional seeding games and these guys are one letter above us, 4a to our 4b.  They seemed potentially low 3 to me, clearly a step or 2 above my team and enough for me to never feel relaxed.  I felt like they were within reach for sure, but kinda left me feeling uncalibrated to their level, so to speak.

Anyway, we have a PP in their zone.  Turnover.....gone. Shorthanded 3 on 1 up ice, they gain the zone, puck carrier on my left, to the face off dot, pass to center high slot, pass to halfway between dot and crease to my right, one timer slam dunk, I push, slide, played it perfectly, but just too slow.  Puck hit me under my skate and in, couldn't get to that right post quick enough.   First shot of the game, in.  So I think "ok, here we go. They are toying with us."

Ended up 5-2 L, not terrible.  4th for sure did not go in as it hit the outside of the post and between my calves in the crease, so really 4-2 but oh well.  One goal I didn't track well from a shot from their D as they were cycling on a PP, but otherwise did ok. No shame in losing a close game to a better team. 

I definitely do not think these guys belong with us, wherever we end up.  We played another 4a team last week and lost 3-2 but we could have won that game easily and those guys and us should be together.

Good times and onward.

Markstrom's helmet with painted straps and design elements on the cage.  This dude always has great style on his lids.