Big Disappointment -- Fogs Like Crazy!!

I wore a visor for years until my league changed the rules, and only then switched to a cage. The visor was great for visibility, especially in the peripheral zones at the right, left and bottom of the visual range. The cage has always been a little annoying in that you lose some peripheral acuity because of the bars, but a puck or a stick has to hit the cage before even thinking about coming in contact with your face. I was truly hoping that this combo mask would combine the "best of both worlds" of superior visibility (visor) and protection (cage). Sadly, what looked great on paper was terrible in execution. While in concept the half (more like 3/4) face shield should provide excellent unobstructed visibility, the simple truth is that the (virtually immediate) fogging of the lower third of the shield significantly hampers downward peripheral vision, which is nightmarish because you can't get a visual sense of where the puck is when you're possessing it (kids, don't look down at the puck too much when you're carrying it; you'll end up getting knocked on your butt; rather, use your peripheral vision to assist you in keeping the puck on your stick, but that's something you'll have a hard time doing because of all the distorting moisture this mask is going to collect in your field of vision). The fogging cannot be avoided, unless either (a) your nostrils and mouth are under your chin (or you're a whale with a blowhole) or (b) you don't breathe, and as most normally-constructed people (x) have a nose and mouth in the right place on their face and (y) do, in fact, breathe, they will (z) tend to expel at least the very top of the stream of their moisture-laden breath right into the bottom inch or so of the shield, so this is a pretty big design flaw. My previous experience with a shield was an aviator-cut Oakley (the ones with the little upward curve in front of the mouth and nose, at least 3/4 of an inch shorter all around than the visor in the Bauer combo and at least an inch shorter in front of the mouth and nose than in the Bauer combo), and while I got a tiny bit of fogging with that visor, too, it wasn't really significant enough to affect my downward peripheral vision (because my breath stream went under the visor). Perhaps Bauer should incorporate a shorter, aviator cut shield (similar to the HDO ProClip Wave visor) into the mask, which would tend to allow expulsion of breath UNDER, rather than INTO, the visor. Also, I was disappointed that the visor cannot be replaced independent of the entire mask. So if the visor goes, you're buying a whole new face shield, cage and all. The likelihood of this happening is increased by the fact that the mounting bars on the unit are part of the visor. It should be easy to design a unit where the mounting bars are on the cage, and the shield fits into a bracket within the cage, and is removable/replaceable efficiently. I thought at least one of the manufacturers offered such a product a while back. Other than that, the combo mask did allow for decent airflow (not great because of the size of the shield, but better than a full shield, I would assume, yet clearly not as good as a full cage) and the fit was good. I simply cannot recommend this product because of the fogging. If Bauer changes the design by going with a shorter visor component (with an aviator cut) and allowing for replacing the visor (rather than requiring the purchase of an entire mask combo unit), I may consider trying that model. Until then, back to the cage.