This Sport Chek location has a "Hockey Experts" section. This was extremely valuable to us this weekend as we were looking to outfit Mike with head-to-toe gear for his first upcoming season of hockey. They have a huge selection of everything with a wide range of sizes. This was pretty imperative to us when outfitting a guy who wears size 13 shoes. We were able to find everything needed in the right size. There were lots of staff around who were very helpful in finding things and adding their two cents about product selection.
The guy doing the skate sharpening wasn't very knowledgable. In fact, the guy that organizes Mike's hockey league specifically recommended against getting his skates sharpened here. If you do, be sure to know what radius of hollow you need. This is basically the radius of the 'circle' used to do the sharpening. If you are a beginner, you'll probably want 5/8" or larger. The guy at Sport Chek had the opposite recommendation... so I'm glad we had researched it on our own ahead of time.
Sport Chek is a big box store, and you get what usually comes along with that... lots of selection, hit or miss employee knowledge, and decent prices (particularly if you hit a sale).
Review #24 of Yelp's 30 Day Review Challenge