My question for you how do you feel about shakes/smoothies over solid foods? When I in my twenties I had to by necessity have shakes and the options weren't great then either. But the issue is I can drink significant calories of shakes and I just feel hungry and sloshy all day. Versus solid foods no shakes I feel more light, as long as I don’t over do it! My favorite pre-game is Salmon and mashed potatoes with some greens beans and pineapple or apply sauce.

I hate that I'm going to geek out here, but long read ahead. I started longer stick cause I was told, if you play defense you need a long stick to poke. I also started with a flex way to stiff for me to handle. Then I traveled up north with the future wife and played some ODR with my soon to be bro-in-law at the time. I scooped up a cheap $20 buck sherwood intermediate 5030 in the glorious p77 banana in a 75 flex. I was ripping them after I got use to it. Luck would have it my teammate worked at the proshop and got two highend sherwoods too wippy at 70 for him, and I was the beneficiary of that mistake. I chopped one down shorter and shorter over time. When it comes to stick length you got players like Aho and Bedard with sticks a foot longer than they are tall and players like Crosby and Tage Thompson with mini sticks practically. Now here is the only imperial study Ive done. I had two P77s and a radar gun. I thought maybe a longer stick gave a mechanical advantage as a bigger lever. So one stick was up to my eyes, other was chin (which was a lower flex stick so chopped down it was similar flex) The shorter stick gave me a significantly harder shot, 8mph faster and more accurate as well. Ive also heard some other coaches say the same thing. My bank account nor wife loves the amount of sticks Ive had. Luckily I get prostock blanks - doesnt help the guy has fun curves and I want then all, and has sent me a couple feeebies due to shipping mistakes. I started off flat, PM9 and overtime moved to toe curves as the last couple of years. I know a bauer rep, and he said the 88 was going the way of the dinosaur, as the PM9 has. So I thought I could try out the toe curves. Oddly enough the most popular curve p92 and I do not get along. My favorite was a lie 5.5 88 from sherwood, but I haven't seen one in many years. I like lower flex sticks, I use to use real whippy around 60ish cut a few inches. I took lots of snaps, rarely clapped. Ive moved into the 70-77 flex sticks.

@Zee Steven No problem. Just love to help. I hate goalies, so score as many as you can 😆

@Zee Steven I love it, was that a back hand schnipe on the 2nd goal? That first one he caught and sent it quickly. Really glad the work he’s putting in is paying off, there is no better feeling.

The 28 is the most fickle of curves. You really have to roll that top hand over to work the rockered blade and get the toe on the ice to rip the shot. Trust me Im on a quest to find the perfect curve, only if 88 was made in a lie 5.5 still.

@Luke Croucher I used to love it when sherwood had it in a lie 5.5, the Lie 6 and I don't get along well. They were also getting hard to find, everything is 92/28/90.

I love the scwhoops and pings of dryland shooting. Very brave of you to have the car parked next to the net. You got some great lower body mechanics, foot placement and depth. I tagged you into a thread I have with Zee and his son, it has a video I made. Get the top hand out (off the hip) and rolled over and snap it back. I posted a video of a drill, put something an inch behind the puck that keeps you from curling the puck back and shooting. This way all you can do is hands and lower body to snap that puck. Also try a couple of inside leg shots. It's essentially @Luke Croucher drill where he back hand touches and then steps into shoot, just without the touch nor step in.