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Originally Posted by Voodooman
I don't seem to remember anyone getting their skates sharpened more than once every couple of weeks, or even a month in my minor hockey days. Is this declining quality in the steel that requires more maintenance, or just another in what seems like the endlessly ridiculous series of things that parents have to do in minor hockey now?
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Probably because that's as often as you could make it/remember.
When I worked at SportChek in uni I used to sharpen my own skates and it was so great to be able to try different things and ultimately know what worked best. It would have been pretty cool to be able to play around with that as a teenager.
And yeah, maybe not each ice time, but if I had one I would have been sharpening them way more often than they used to be. Nobody HAS to do it. My family had 3 boys playing minor hockey for our entire lives. If you added up the cost and the time of dealing with getting skates sharpened, it almost definitely would cost less to have it, plus you build a connection to your equipment and how to customize it.