NEW Bauer Pulse Goalie Stick with Unique 3D grip Review

I always make the joke. It's Christmas in November. It's Christmas in July. We've got something new at the Hockey Shop Source for Sports. This week, literally, folks, like, if you've got a goalie on your list and you're trying to imagine what to get him for Christmas, this twig is, I'd say, stocking suffer, but let's be honest with the price of sticks these days, this is probably a primary gift.

Yeah. This is probably a primary gift.

A little tough to hide, a little tough to wrap, but you're gonna wanna check out the Bauer Pulse. And over at The Hockey Shop Source for Sports, they've got a ton in stock. We're gonna get into it with Cam. We're gonna walk through what makes it special, and you Daren and I will talk about it after. But I wanna let people know that that's not all they've got.

They've got a ton of ProReturn sticks. Up on the website now, we talked about the true ProReturns a couple weeks ago. Next week, we're gonna talk about the CCM ProReturns, show you some of the specifics. But if you don't wanna wait a week because these things sell fast, go check it out at the hockeyshop.com. There was some Stewart Skinner sticks with some really unique grip patterns on the blade.

There were some Juuse Saros sticks and the holy grail. It is available in both the true stick and as the original CCM actual model used in the National Hockey League stick, the Sergei Bobrovsky slope shoulder stick in stock from two different brands at the Hockey Shop right now. So if you've got stick shopping on your list, whether it's the Bauer Pulse we're about to talk to or the pro returns, and I gotta be honest, Daren, CCM XF Pro returns XF Pro Pro returns are actually cheaper than retail. No warrant no warranty, but it's actually cheaper than buying an XF Pro stick off the rack right now. So if you're willing to live without the warranty, you can save some money as well and try a unique paddle shape, unique blade shape, lots of different colors.

Make sure you check it out, hockeyshop.com. But for now, let's have Cam explain to us what's new in Bauer's latest quote unquote innovation twig, the Bauer Pulse.

I've got my fingers on the pulse of goaltending today. The new Bauer Pulse Innovation Series stick with a very unique grip, some changes in the blade, some construction. Cam, let's get into all the details. Oh, it's like

You just made my pulse rise. Oh.

Dad joke's off the charts today.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome back to The Hockey Shop Source for Sports where we do have the Bauer Pulse, their innovation line. As we know, Bauer has Supreme. Bauer has Vapor.

I thought you forgot there for a sec. A little bit.

My pulse was high. I'm

Okay. Here we go.

Every once in a while, come out with something that actually isn't annually. They come out with something that's just, like, all about the innovation.

So You mean their innovation line of sticks?

Their innovation line of sticks. That is what we have here. A little bit. Yeah. Yeah.

In addition yeah. There you go. Good Christmas gift idea. In addition to being pretty like Cam, it's also got some actual functionality changes. So what let's go.

[crosstalk] Walk us through. Okay. I've delayed long enough. Let's start off with

the bottom this time and talk about that p 28 g curve. G? Yes. For goalie. Okay. Because p 28 is a player curve. Well, we don't want But now we had the g, so it's goalie. So you know it's good.

Yeah. A tow hook on that thing. Yes. So Vetch can ask.

If you are looking for a nice banana curve This is the come out last year for goalies, specifically on watch innovation stick. Do you remember? I don't

remember, Cam. I'm not that bright. I'm old. I forget things.

Comment in comments below if you remember watch stick that was last year that came out. They've already had the agent. They've already had the

Just tell me about the pulse.

Okay. We'll we'll stick back to the pulse.

Or you won't have one soon enough.

Got them. Okay. So new for the P28 though. On the top of the curve, we see that it's square. On the bottom though, it is rounded.

So jam that stick against the boards, that puck's riding along, that square toe will help you kind of cradle it, and then that rounded toe will help you pull it off the boards to be able to shoot, play it out. Like that.

I like that. Say, like, not just like some real honest thought process there.

Exactly. Exactly.

Press cam. Moving up,

the stick. We see that Ergo spine on the back. So reminiscent of the supreme series stick.

Which helps give us some lightweight. That's What are

we at? We on a 25, we are 642 grams.

So not the lightest stick on the market No. But really light and really well balanced in your

And then we're getting kinda to the, I would say, close to the ceiling of that weight story pretty quick here.

I'd say it's probably more of a floor cam. Yes. Yeah. Ceiling? Rather than a ceiling.

Other words, we can't do much more with weight. Let's get to the grip. So grip. What's it called?

Ergo grip. Ergo grip. So Okay. Get a good look at that right there.

Yeah. It's kinda it's gonna be a tough one. We're gonna have to zoom in on this. We'll show that later. Like, it's it's yeah.

Explain it to me.

So It feels good.

It's got that kinda, like, bump that comes out. So you've got a little bit, like, reminiscent of the pentagrip, but when you go into the back of it, it also jets out a little bit more too. So it feels a little bit more suspense.

Pentagrib was just sort of up here. This also has down the bottom and then it also continues into the shoulder as well. Like there's a bump on

the As you're grabbing the stick, it bumps out index finger across I the find that it gives you a lot more control over that stick. You know what

it reminds me of? It reminds me of a lot of the guys that will do, like, custom tape. Like, they'll tape their own sort of custom handle on here and tape down over the top of the shoulder to get that feel. It's they've just built it in. It's it's

It's a big benefit.

Natural feeling in there.

Exactly. A big benefit is allowing you to get that hand over top of that stick a little bit more, a little bit more supreme control as you go through. Okay. What else? Boron makes its return Boron.

To their innovation series. Named after Tim Boron, their pro rep. Not really, but should

be one of the best. So when you are talking about the Boron, it's how it's actually, like, carbon weaved into the stick itself. Okay. So it's adding to some more rigidity of the stick. Moving up to the shaft, you do feel Bauer's raised logoing now this time.

So as you kind of run your hand along, something just a little bit of a different texture feel for them, not something they've done previously in the past.

Not really a performance thing, but it's kinda

No.

It's just it's it's just cool.

Yeah. It's there. And it gives it stick actually a good, like, shine and

sheen to

it to it. Oh, it's pretty.

Yes. Exactly. So we we already talked about that. Only one color. K.

So one curve until you get down to junior when it goes back to P31. So junior size twenty one, twenty two is going to be P31. Once we hit 23 inch into intermediate, that's where that P28 curve comes back, and it's P28 all the way throughout the rest the sizing curve.

All right. This is coming in at a perfect time, sort of Christmas time, early gift ideas. I'm guessing it's going to sell fast just because of all these features. And I got to say, like, I know this is innovation series sort of a one off, but that feels so nice and natural in the hand. I wouldn't be surprised if we see this becomes that I don't know.

I haven't talked to Bauer, but if it was me, I might consider making this something moving forward that's Maybe an additional option on the custom because it's it's it's

it's quite nice.

It's quite nice. No? Alright. Boron. Boron five.

Cam's usually just boring, but he can't be. His pulse is up with this stick in his hand. Make sure you give him a shout if you got any questions. Wanna know what sizing, what what what you need, how to get it, what the shipping dates are. What do they get you?

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You know, I was I was talking to Ryan over at City National Arena here in Vegas, and he was all excited about the Bauer pulse stick, and I I didn't realize that it that it was out. So he brought that to me, and that was three hours ago. And you and I are talking about it now in the Gear Segment. So credit to Ryan.

He's on top of it. He's on top of it. I gotta say, like, I found it really interesting. We were talking about it with other members of the Hockey Shop goalie team after we finished recording this segment. And everybody sort of had the same thought process on it because, you know, they've they've had the pentagrip before, but this thing actually curves sort of down below your fingers as well.

And the the sort of bubble, for lack of a better term, the the curvature, the extra contour on the stick, where the pentagrip would be is in addition to being much thicker. It actually goes down over the top of the shoulder of the of of of the stick itself. Like, actually is the top portion of the shoulder is also raised. And so when you put your hand on it, it just feels like it kills dead space in you. Like, everything is filled.

It feels like a perfectly natural grip. That's what everyone said. Now most of the guys that I talked to at the Hockey Shop hadn't had a chance to take it on the ice, but they all agreed unanimously they loved how it felt. So I'm dying to try one on the ice to see if how it feels in my hand will translate to added control. Like, that's the idea.

Right? If you've got a perfect grip on it, you're gonna be able to hold it a little tighter. Really felt like it would work with a, for lack of a better term, like that index finger down on the you know, if you sort of hold your index finger down along the shoulder, it really felt like it'd be a perfect grip for that. Might don't know. I'm curious to see whether Bauer keeps this as an option in the future for custom because I had a few guys say, like, this thing's perfect.

Would it be even better with the trigger grip? Oh. Maybe we get Daren maybe we'll get Daren a pulse and he can saw a trigger grip into it because I know you're you're working on your Frankensteins, buddy.

Oh, yeah. I I I've I've put a trigger finger with a slow shoulder. It like, it's I'll be on the the trigger finger wasn't the intended part, but I screwed up some of the sawing, so it it I was fortunate. I fell into it. But here's a question.

I'm not allowed to

just just, you know, I'm not allowed to have saws because then I wouldn't have a I wouldn't have a figure. My basically, my family would bet that I wouldn't have a finger left to trigger with.

You should see me trying to wedge the stick to get some some leverage on it, what what I'm saying. On the slope shoulder, how does that affect you when you're paddle down and and your and your blocker going in? Because it's it would be a little bit of an angle, wouldn't it?

I mean, honestly Just thinking that. I mean, a slope shoulder allows you like, for Bob, if you're holding like Bob, he just, like, holds grips right down on the whole shoulder. Right? So So if you

go paddle paddle down

I mean, I I don't know that it would be well, I would actually so I would think a real hard firm paddle down if you're doing it the way Bob holds it, you more of your fingers might get dumped into the ice a little bit. Like, you might Yeah. That might hurt a little bit. But, again, because it's sloped, you know, the middle, ring, and pinky are probably off the ice a little bit. So it would still just be your index that would be your primary point of contact.

Again, to it would depend on how how much you grip down on that slope shoulder. And shameless plug for InGoal Magazine, we over at premium, you can go into pro gear, and we actually have segments over there with both Bob and Spencer Knight talking about how they use that slope shoulder. And Spencer Knight talked about how he holds it further down or further up depending and Chris talked about this too, depending on the situation. So they actually it's like like choking up on a bat when you have two strikes out. In certain situations, they choke further down on that on that slope shoulders.

It is fascinating the degree to which these guys

Can you imagine thinking about that during during play?

Oh, listen. I'm just it's it's like it's like when the guy that I play with who played played a little pro overseas and he's old school and he knows how to bait shooters, he tells, Kev, Kev, just like like, be off your angle a little bit. Show them something and then move back in. I'm like, dude, I'm just trying to survive out here in the middle of my net. If I start trying to go out of the middle of the net on my purpose and then move back in, I'm gonna basically end up in the corner at some point.

So, like Yeah. Just let me stay in the middle of my net. I don't wanna overthink here.

Give it to them and take it away. Yeah. I don't wanna give anything.

Exactly. Exactly. Trust me, buddy. I'm giving them enough already.

Yeah. I can I can do the give? I can't get through the the takeaway part. Let's get into our Visual Edge ProReads and something a little different this week, but first a message from Visual Edge.

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We've talked about all the ProReads each week. Got another one from Eric, and a great one from Eric. But in the meantime, I wanted to try something different. I wanted to make them the sponsor of this little rather than doing a ProReads in this segment, I'm gonna share insights from three different Seattle Kraken goalies that I talked to this week about the Samuel Montembeault story. Have you seen this one, Daren?

Montembeault talking about stick blades?

Mind blowing.

So for those uninformed or not caught up, and we're gonna have an we're gonna have a have a story up on the site in a couple of days sort of expanding on this. I wrote one for nhl.com, but we're gonna have the InGoal version of it. Essentially, Samuel Montembeau with the Montreal Canadiens was on a French podcast and or or YouTube show, and he talked about if you give him a name of any player in the league, he'll tell you whether they shoot right or left and what color tape they have. And a lot of people like you, Daren, were like, hey. Mind blowing.