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Nice. Time for a new cage, eh?

You look 100% badass. Nice style and continuity all around.

Bishop is almost a pitching wedge. Lots of lift and it bananas pretty good on the toe. I love it.

Nice. Stay tuned for a detailed post on my new mask. If you like light blue, you're going to love it. Should be within the next two weeks. I just sent if off yesterday and my reservation is right on track. Consider this a spoiler-teaser

Ha, that was a happy accident. Those were gifted to me.

@southpawtendy48 See above 9 posts: I love that color. That's a great color for a cage. I had to fight the urge for that color really hard with my recent custom paint job. I decided to keep mine silver, but yours looks so good. Nice work.

Quick, mid-curve with no twist. It plays too flat for me with puckhandling but is really good for stand-up, blade on-ice shots. I'm used to Bishop with a twist that is so easy for me to get good loft on my passes and clears. I play the puck a lot so that takes precedence over coverage on shots.

Are you a scientist? I'm a sensory scientist of sorts. I evaluate coffee quality for a living.

My roommates in university were geology students. I remember that well. My partner is a microbiologist in the biotech world and that gets real geeky real fast at happy hours where I'm hoping there's a hockey game on TV somewhere. I get bored pretty fast talking about viruses and white blood cells.

Yeah, even at the table with beer they all bring props, mostly so they can laugh and have a good time. It's fun to see. I totally can not relate to it, but I also spend my time here with you guys talking about goalie gear, so I suppose that's just as geeky in its own way. We all need a thing. Hockey is mine, mages/martial arts are his. It works.

Yeah, sometimes. They mostly sit around a table and drink beer in normal clothes while playing, though. One of the biggest reasons for this was that our pub at home where they play is 5 feet away from my gear storage and the sight/smell was going to have me sleeping in the garage if I didn't control it.

Good question. My partner is really into D&D and is always a mage. I bought and customized this staff as a birthday present that will be presented next week. I'm hiding it at my work until then and I had to get it out of the house before he comes home tonight. I've been working on it this week in the garage and I thought it'd be a neat photo with the goalie sticks. When it showed up at work in its box , all of my coworkers assumed it was new goalie sticks

Clearly, yes. @ThatCarGuy that one is for when I sub in Division 2.......gotta resort to the ole magic tricks.

The CR1 is lighter, I'm pretty sure, than this TotalOne....although I haven't weighed them side by side. The CR1 is way more responsive and agile and feels less clunky which has gotten me major improvements to my puck handling. I used Bauers for a long, long time, then True for a hot minute, and eventually found myself with a CR1 and I'm convinced it is the best stick I've ever used. I am definitely intrigued by the VR1. I intend to get one, for sure. I currently own 3 CR1s but I will probably need to sell one. I experimented with a curve that just doesn't work for me.

One of these things is not like the others.

The internal strapping, no top strap, and the awesomest cage in the world gave it away.

World's Confusingest Goalie

Ha. Yeah....umm. Where's Savebyrichter's puke emoji?? Very ballsy of you to get that gear with those jerseys. I love it. Just say you're "confusing the shooters."

Wow @Chenner29 congrats man, that set looks so good. Is that a custom graphic or one of their stock ones? Regardless, I really like it. What jerseys do you guys wear? The white stitching on the blue is a minor detail but makes everything pop.

Looking good. My eyes went right to the Sportmask.

Ha, yeah. That'd be me. I'm a very heavy sweater and most sweatbands on the market do nothing for me, the worst being stock Bauer ones which are just useless. This is what I use and they are amazing

No problem, it was a spontaneous thought for an easy solution. I actually use this type of wrist band as my sweat band in my mask, which I love. It offers great spatial coverage on my forehead and offers heavy duty sweat retention.

@ThatCarGuy Nice work. Are you going to pad that at all? One easy, ready-made padding option is long tennis wrist bands. You could easily sew one onto that strap once you slide it on.

Does that mean they take measurements of your head in various ways and install a custom padding set with varied thickness to fit it flush on your head? So the padding is not flat like it is stock??

Ha.