Caring For the B Pt. 7

Caring For the B Pt. 7

Hi this is Scott W from the Boston Bruins in M bream I’m here today with longtime head equipment manager Keith Robinson and you know so much of what our team behind the team does is to maximize performance for our brers players but also to avoid injury and it

Goes as far as how we sharpen skates and we thought it would be important to share with all of you um the Imports of understanding that sharpening is just not sharpening yeah I think to um max maximiz performance um every skater has you know different strengths abilities

Or just weight size and I think that’s mostly you know the process is getting into the ice efficiently and effectively for each size player or players with different strengths so Kei could you share with us just like the components of the blade and um what are your

Thoughts when you when you sharpen yeah so you know the skate blade has an outside edge Inside Edge and we can change on the wheel here by dressing it with this Quail the different Hollows um as you can see here the deeper you go the more grip and maybe a little less

Glide and the less Hollow you go you do have better Glide but it takes a little bit more effort to uh get into the ice if you’re smaller so for some of the youth players who are a little bit lighter they would benefit probably from from the deeper Hollow in terms of able

To hold an edge correct I think the um default for recreational hockey at most of the Pro Shops and rinks would be around/ in or 5/8 which is good for smaller player to get into the ice without too much effort so they’re not sliding around but as you um as you get

Better as a hockey player and you get bigger like into the you into the high school and prep school um you may benefit from more Glide and and and benefit from a a more shallow Hollow absolutely um your feet you know don’t stick the ice as much so if you have the

Strength to get into the ice when you need to like a bigger stronger player it’s definitely beneficial to have a you know less a more shallow setting so you can glide better up the ice right and from an injury prevention standpoint or even you know hockey injuries uh we see

A lot of hip related um injuries um and those are related just to the repetitiveness of skating so much um that we found that those that are working hard and have hip injuries do actually do better with the more shallow Hollow because the deeper the hollow often times it’s harder to it’s harder

To skate it’s harder to work and especially um in the summer months when it’s warmer outside uh and the ice is a little bit softer um if you’ve got some of these deeper Hollows uh you’re going to sink into the ice and it makes it much more difficult to escape but also

Puts transfers a lot more stress up into the hips and um makes you look more vulnerable for injury thanks cute for sharing your for sharing your thoughts uh for all of you at home just when you go to the rink and you bring your kids um states to get sharpened just know

That there’s a difference in Sharpening

Manager of Player Rehabilitation, Scott Waugh, and Head Equipment Manager, Keith Robinson, go over the importance of proper skate sharpening.