As I made note of before, Gabe was having a little bit of a problem of getting back up on his skates after falling and we kept trying to figure out what the problem was. Well everything kind of kept going back and wondering if his gear, mainly his skates were too big. Now the gear that he got was a little big for him, but from talking to coaches and players the best thing is to have a good solid helmet and skates that fit perfectly. Well the helmet was good maybe a little heavy but that he can get used to, so then we looked at the skates and there was our problem. Gabe's skates were a size 11 and that would be great if he wore a size 12 shoe but he wears a 9/10 so he needed to be in a size 8 skate. So then the search began to find a pair of size 8 skates that wasn't going to break the bank. Well through a little bit of searching and thanks to closeout prices from Hockeymonkey.com we found a pair of Mission 7-1 yth skates that were only for sale in a size 8. Hurray!!!!! But then it came down to price. The 7-1 model is almost the top of the line skates for Mission and the retail cost of the skates were $129.99. Yikes!!! Thanks again to closeout pricing we were able to steal them for $34.99 plus we pick up some other things he might need. All his gear that we ordered showed up on Friday and it looks great and we will be able to test everything out on Sunday when he has his stick time. Now lets just hope that these skates do the trick.
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