You will find out once you wear them that the Vapor 6.0 boot has no padding whatsoever past the heel. You are going to experience rubbing just before your toes, heavy skin blisters in the same place, and if any puck hits you; you are done. I was testing the skate out over a year ago and just felt so bad in them.
If you have been paying attention to new skates they are all really big on mentioning ankle bite from the tongue and laces. You are going to experience a lot of high ankle bite.
The laces that come one the skate are terrible and will literally break in half, and the lace holes get very sharp, lose their rivets, and cut and pair of laces that you have purchased and woven in.
The other giant problem is that the skate is completely flat foot. If you are a high power defenseman or an aggressive offenseman, you are going to be caught flat footed any time you are not moving your feet as Bauer really skipped out on new technology. Not to mention the 6.0 is about a year and a half old or more.
Basically what I am saying is when you buy a new skate you want a long lasting boot with a fair pivot and arch to help you run (if you are experienced you know what I mean), enough padding to have a full skate bake completed, and enough to take the brunt of a stinger that somehow finds your toe. You also want comfort so that if need be you can play in single, double, triple overtime and then go to a shootout feeling stellar. The 6.0 does not offer any of those and because you purchased the lower line of the skate, you will probably take more of a hit than I am explaining.
I am a very experienced defenseman who plays hard on the attack, and relies on his solid fundamentals to keep the opponent off of the score sheet. I am looked upon to score goals, make pretty plays, pull forwards towards me and make them pay, all this while I leave myself enough room to get back on defense should something go wrong with the man covering my point, because as a high end player you are not expected to make mistakes. I use a Mission Fuel 110 XP with a pitch blade system set to even while I have my blades cut to a 3/4'', 10.5' radius, with front end lean on my custom profiling. When I pitch my blade to -1 everything changes and I can attack as hard as I want on my toes, retreat as hard as I want, and sit down while skating backwards because of a flat lean in the heels. I also have heel heavy pads in my boot, and waxed laces so that I can get my skate extra tight the way it should be. When you bake a waxed lace it becomes soft and manageable. When you bake a thick insert it become soft and stays soft while also taking the exact definition of bottom side of your foot. I also have a thick boot with a hard external feel, but I found out that my boot would become much more soft after baking. Once baked, my skate truly fits like a cast mold around my foot, but still has all the padding I need to take a shot in the foot without ending my season.
You need to know what kind of player you are, and you need to make sure that is how your coaches intend on using you in the game setting, before you buy your skates. Getting a bargain is not always the best bargain and now that you made the choice that you did it will help a lot to learn about sharpening blades, baking your skates, and adding comfort plus precision inside the boot. Laces are more than strings.
Rob
