I recall when hockey skates changed from stamped steel supports to impact-resistant plastic. This really didn’t change the performance of skating. It only made skates look high-tech, and frankly that’s been the only advancement in the hockey skate in the last 30 years… until now.
Evidently there is a Canadian company (naturally) called Therm Blade that is introducing a skating blade with a battery-operated heater that warms the blade to reduce the friction. Supposedly Wayne Gretzky endorses them, so there must be a pony in there somewhere…
I now have a reason to come out of retirement. I can exchange my black Tuuk blades on my CCM Super Tacks for a pair of Therma Blades…