Giving up on the search and buying the retail counterpart?
#1
Posted 29 October 2019 - 06:01 PM
I’m toying with the idea but don’t know if I can actually go through with it. Anyone ever do this and either regret or are happy with that decision?
#2
Posted 29 October 2019 - 11:04 PM
I’d say my one exception is a pair of ‘19 WC shells that may never become available so I made a pair myself
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What piece of equipment are you searching for?
#3
Posted 30 October 2019 - 07:18 AM
#4
Posted 30 October 2019 - 07:26 AM
#5
Posted 30 October 2019 - 08:57 AM
New model CCM gloves are fairly slow to come to market unless you find them at an eq sale. I remember having to wait a season and a half for qlts to start popping up in 13. For sure they'll come around by at least mid-season this year. The weird thing about ccm is I find that retail fits smaller than team stock in terms of gloves, at least with the last few iterations: qlt, jetspeed, etc. In retail I wear 14 in CCM and 13 in pro stock.
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Want to buy:
Small Shells
Large Edge Practice Socks White with navy stripe
Large Edge Practice Socks Burgundy with white stripe
#7
Posted 30 October 2019 - 12:22 PM
I wear some retail gear, and retail skates. For gloves, pants, helmets, I like the pro gear since it’s much cleaner. Not as many logos, fancy palms, stripes, etc.. Bauer is especially bad about it.
#8
Posted 30 October 2019 - 08:32 PM
I'm with the other posters here... sort of. Given a short period of time, you'll be tripping over pro stock FT1 gloves. However, my personal issue with pro stock CCM gloves is this: They actually don't seem to be as nice as their retail counterparts.
CCM's retail gloves seem to have nicer, more comfortable liners and offer stretch gussets (though that's more of a personal preference), and speaking in my capacity as a pro stock glove whore myself, I'd have no qualms rocking an off-the-rack pair of FT1s. Even the 4-Roll Lite Pro gloves that are out right now for $140 are superb. As Maligator above me pointed out, Bauer is notorious for being the opposite. Bauer screen prints six dozen logos on their retail gloves, and while I praise the 2S Pros for being immensely comfortable, they're as hideous as the dog that was sent through the teleporter in The Fly II. Bauer is also obscenely overpriced, which is reason #2 why I seldom buy their retail gear, but I'm going off on a rant here.
To summarize, retail CCM gloves are pretty dang legit, and if you like the retail feel (palms, gussets, etc.), why keep torturing yourself? If going with a cleaner look is more important, though, I'd wait until PSH and eBay get in several hundreds of pairs over the next year or so. You'll probably also save some green in the process.
#9
Posted 30 October 2019 - 08:53 PM
The insight into the ccm retail gloves is helpful though with sizing and quality etc.
#10
Posted 31 October 2019 - 02:40 PM
#11
Posted 02 November 2019 - 07:13 AM
I wear retail skates and shoulder pads.
The only retail gloves I can wear are Sher-Wood M90's because they have a pro stock look
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