Ice Hockey Sticks

NHL Hockey Stick Budget

Some nice Ice Hockey Stick $$$ info from a recent article…
Reaching a breaking point on stick budgets?
The odds that the hockey world would ever go back to wood sticks are probably on a par with goalies everywhere going back to pads stuffed with horsehair.
But it sure gets frustrating, night after night, to see NHL ice [...]

Bauer Hockey goes on a growth spurt and acquires Mission-ITECH Hockey

Bauer Hockey bought Mission-ITECH at the end of September, just 6 months after the Nike, Inc. sale of Bauer closed in April. The enthusiasm of the new Bauer Hockey is exciting to see.
It seems like the end of the “Nike” name on the Nike Bauer brand is nearing the end of its days. It was [...]

Inside Scoop: Hockey Sticks of the UND Sioux

This is a really interesting article written about the UND Sioux college hockey team and their Ice Hockey Sticks. Here is a link to the original article from the Grand Forks Herald Stick shtick: Breaking new ground by Brad Elliott Schlossman.

The article is worth a full read on its own but here are some [...]

World’s Oldest Hockey Sticks

How old are the world’s oldest hockey sticks? A recent article in The Nova Scotian has an interesting write up on a few of the world’s oldest hockey sticks. The oldest sticks are thought to have been made in the mid-1800s. The main story outlines the details of a specific stick that collector Mark Presley [...]

Easton Hockey: History and Overview

Easton Hockey is one of the preeminent brands in the world of hockey equipment. They have been innovators in multiple areas of sports and they continue to advance the state of technology in hockey equipment. Here is a collection of some of the more interesting parts of their Hockey history, primarily written by Easton through [...]

Hockey Rinks: How Its Made [video]

Anybody for some delicious layer cake?
Each layer is about 2 mm (.08 inches) think and freezes in seconds after application. It takes about 8 minutes to apply one layer across the entire rink.
The Hockey Rink Recipe:

2 layers of ice
3 layers of white paint (special paint that is non-toxic, biodegradable and formulated to stick to ice)
Now [...]

Ice Hockey Sticks-Most NHL Hockey Sticks are made in Mexico

Here is quite a bit of interesting Hockey Stick info that I pulled from a USA Today article that was printed in January of 2008. The original article can be found here Hockey sticks South of the Border are the way to go.
Now to the goodies from this article. First and foremost is the table [...]

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