"Official" Nike/Bauer Thread

[Youthinstructor]

I don't think that is the SE pad in the photo....is it? The SE has very squarish shin rolls. I could be wrong.

There are actually 3 pads: The standard 2006 Supreme Pro...the thinner, butterfly oriented SE version with the squarish rolls and the new 2007 Supreme Pro that is eliminating some of the shin rolls and uses some of the more popular mods on last years Pro model.

BTW....I called NBH up and most of them have no idea about this years Pro model. All they can quote you is the SE which is in the catalog.

[Law Goalie]

Originally Posted by greatsave31

Supreme Pro:
- traditional feel
- round stuffed shin rolls, open toe w/ toe cap,
- flat stuffed thigh rolls
- more of a "Hybrid" pad

NBH Supreme pro SE:
- "RBK" butterfly flat faced pad feel
- flat stuffed shin rolls/or just a flat faced pad all together (as seen in pic) closed toe
- flat thigh face
- as said previously more of an RBK styled pad. more boxxy and geared for the butterfly style

Nicely illustrated, but I might cut the distictions a little finer than that...

Supreme Pro:

- round shin rolls, angular thigh rolls
- tapered/rounded boot, open toe (with cap)
- heavily defined leg and boot channels
- extremely flexible in lateral and vertical
- very traditional feel

1st-generation Supreme Pro SE:

- square shin rolls, flat thigh rise
- square boot, closed toe
- less pronounced leg channel, relatively flat boot channel
- only a little bit stiffer in lateral and vertical from boot to knee
- flat thigh rise (above knee breaks) extremely stiff
- distinctive hybrid feel

2nd-generation Nike-branded Supreme Pro SE:

- flat-faced pad (excluding knee and vertical rolls)
- square boot, closed toe
- also no leg or boot channel to speak of
- square knee-wings (not standard on any prior model)
- extremely stiff in lateral, much less flexible in vertical (at ankle and knee breaks)
- RBK-ish feel (as noted above)

[Youthinstructor]

The new 2007 NBH catalog however...has what you describe as the first generation SE pads in it. There is no mention of the newer, flat faced pads that were shown at the recent equipment show. Are those new pads called SE? I can't find anyone at NBH that can tell me about sizes..colours ect. I know that Dukes has some coming in but I'm curious if anything will be actually stock on the model or if they are custom order only?

[Law Goalie]

Weird... I understood from Duke's that the flat-faced Nabby-pads were the new stock model. Now, I may have misunderstood and confused "Duke's stock" (which is often tailored to the store's requests) with "Bauer stock".

edit for Youth:

Any word on whether the thigh-guard tabs & thigh-board lace-in Jenpro are just stitched on superficially, or actually integrated into the pad's structure? I still can't tell one way or the other.

[Mulliniks]

law, dont go pulling that tab out. The ladder loop thing, and the lace tab are one piece that is folded over and caught in the seam connecting the thighrise to the knee/shin on the back cover. You can remove those but its tricky, you can cause more problems than its worth.

[Law Goalie]

Cheers, Mulliniks - that's exactly the information I needed.

P.S. I was at the game when your namesake hit his inside-the-park homer.

[Mulliniks]

classic game, one of the funniest moments in blue jays history

[khabbi]

I find it interesting that Dukes would have a set of Khabibulin Nike/Bauer pro returns in Lightning colors, considering that he's been with the hawks long before they started making the nike/bauer versions of these pads....

Makes you wonder why they make this stuff? Perhaps they (Bauer) knew something we didn't, LOL? Wait, at his salary, the Lightning will NEVER take him back Not saying he's not a good goaltender, just wayyyy overpaid, and I'm one of Habbys biggest fans...

[#20]

Originally Posted by khabbi

I find it interesting that Dukes would have a set of Khabibulin Nike/Bauer pro returns in Lightning colors, considering that he's been with the hawks long before they started making the nike/bauer versions of these pads....

Makes you wonder why they make this stuff? Perhaps they (Bauer) knew something we didn't, LOL? Wait, at his salary, the Lightning will NEVER take him back Not saying he's not a good goaltender, just wayyyy overpaid, and I'm one of Habbys biggest fans...

something fishy huh?
maybe like this
http://members.aol.com/subseven/tupac.html
!!!????

[Law Goalie]

I asked Zack that same question at Duke's, a while back. His answer was basically that pro-return pads often take bizarre little tours before ending up in a shop. In the case of these pads, they're completely unused, and the guy at Duke's during my recent trip said they were made *right* before he went to Chicago. They probably sat in the Bauer foundry collecting dust until someone realised they'd never get used, and sold them off.

[Tim Allen27]

Now do they still offer a 1st generation N/B SE (not the old Bauer supreme's)? Or is the SE they offer now the second gen, flat boxy pad?

[Law Goalie]

They'll do anything you ask - that's the beauty of the no-upcharge policy. I'm sure you could get a set of flat-faced Reactor 5s if you asked nicely.

edit for vanbeezer:

Well, given that much of the Vapor graphic is dependent on the shape and external features of the pad, putting that on a Supreme seems a little unlikely - but they might.

[vanbeezer]

How about a Supreme with Vapour XXX graphic?

[velo2]

good god why. the vapor graphic is busy and really doesnt look like anything distinct. the supreme at least follows a neat pattern

[Goalie #35]

Hello everyone, just wanted to share that I got my new NikeBauer 7500 Goalie sticks.

Here are the pics:






If you have any questions, feel free to ask.

Sorry for the poor quaility pics.

Jens