Bauer Vapor XXX Goal Skates

Pros: Light, comfortable and protective
Cons: Too pretty for hockey and weird design

Glitter? Yep, Bauer did it on a goalie skate too. They put glitter in the cowling. It’s one thing to go and glitter up a pair of player skates, but goalies don’t have a big need to further their look with glitzy shoes. I mean, once they ...

Pros: Nice boot. Good mfg support.
Cons: Blades bend easily.

The XXX goalie skate blades bend very easily. This spring alone three new pair of XXX that I have sharpened required one of the blades to be straightened. The owners subsequently raised this issue through their dealers; there must be a widespread problem with these blades as the dealers immediately conceded and offered to replace the blades/cowlings with the Bauer 7000 model. Seems like this is a good pairing, the cowling gives the skate a more traditional look and more importantly, the skates are much less prone to bending every other game.