My Warrior Messiah Pads

I ordered the Warrior Messiah leg pads from GoalieMonkey. It took a week to ship from California to Connecticut. My pads are 35+3 in the USA colors. I'll post photos in the near future.

These pads are amazing. They're stiff and hard. Rebounds bounce off them with a loud sound. They come with a legal knee pad attached to the leather above the knee cradle. 4 Velcro straps. One for the knee pad. One around the knee cradle. Two wrapping around the leg channel. I was used to one strap in the middle of the leg channel. Now one strap is high and one lis low giving more stability and a tighter closure. There are six straps on the outside of the pad. One leather strap in the boot to go around your skate. Three leather straps in the leg channel. 2 Nylon straps with plastic buckles around the knee cradle and thigh rise. I like to be able to set the straps to a specific length and just buckle them in every time.

The toe bridge is offset to the inside of the pad closer to the other pad. I'm used to the toe bridge being exacly in the middle. I like this new feature a lot. I guess Warrior had a lot of input from Pro Goalies and they have a few unique features that I'm not accustomed with. One new feature that I love is the thinner outer rolls. This gives the pad face more surface area and less area for the vertical outer roll. The pads weight 6 pounds even at the full 38 eight inch limit. It weighs a pound more than the Brian's Zero G's. It's exactly the same weight as my 34+3 Eagle Sentry 3's. I have 35+1 Itech X-Factor 11.8's and the knee is higher on the Warrior's. Every brand has there own sizing and Warrior seems to have a smaller thigh rise.

The leg channel is very comfortable with excellent comfortable padding. The knee area is not that comfortable and is missing soft cushioning padding. When I go down in the butterfly these pads close the 5 hole extremely well. There's 2 breaks one below the kneee and one ablove the kneee. They are stiff, but do bend nicely. The boot is very square. More like my Eagle's. The Vaughn and Brian's pads don't have a square boot so you can have your feet apart wider and drop into the butterfly. I don't have a wide open stance I'm more like Nabokov and I like to stay standing if they shoot high. These pads create a perfect seal along the ice from the boot to the end of the thigh rise.

They're very well made in Warrior's Canadian Factory. For a new company I was impressed and honestly surprised by many new features to the goalie pad market. I'll post photo's when I get my father's camera. I can only imagine that the sky's the limit when Pete Smith helps this refreshingly new company to our goalie world.

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