Consumer Demand Across All Product Categories Drives 27% Revenue Growth and Stronger Net Income Growth

The increase in overall revenues in the second quarter and first half of fiscal 2012 was led by ice hockey equipment sales, with strong performance from the newly launched VAPOR family of skates and composite sticks and a full line of innovative goalie products. The continued revenue and earnings performance has been supported by strong “Back-to-Hockey” orders (April 2011 – September 2011) and “Holiday” (October 2011 – March 2012) booking orders. Revenues from the North American market grew by 29% in the second quarter and 28% in the first half of fiscal 2012 compared to the same periods last year, while sales outside North America grew by 20% and 30%, respectively.

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1924 Olympic Ice Hockey Stick

A classic collectible ice hockey stick is starting to surface, one that any collector would be proud to have in their collection. The stick is a team autographed wood hockey stick from the 1924 Olympic Gold medal winning team of the Toronto Granites.

It looks like its current owner, Jeanne Dodwell, might be putting it up for auction sometime between now on the Vancouver winter Olympics in 2010. The stick looks to be quite a treasure and it will surely find many potential buyers if it does go to auction.

The original story from TheStarcan be found here.

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Mark Presley with the Moffat Hockey Stick

The data analyzed points to a likely age of 170 years old for the stick. More specifically the data indicates the maple tree used to create the stick was cut down between 1828 and 1838. This date range happens to align dead on with the verbal history of the stick that states the hockey stick was made for W.M. (Dilly) Moffatt, born in 1829.

Moffatt Hockey Stick

The first article I picked up this information on can be found at the Vancouver Sun (original link no longer active).

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Your can read the full article here (NOTE: Original link is no longer active).

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photo by: Gene J. Puskar/Associated Press

The Penguin’s Sidney Crosby is trying out a new composite stick. He has been using a two piece hockey stick with a wood blade. The new hockey stick that he is trying out is a one piece composite hockey stick. The article states that wooden hockey stick shafts and blades are very rare in the NHL theses days as players look to gain more velocity with the new composite materials.

The full story is available at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette here.

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3D Carbon Nanotube Structure from Wikipedia

The Easton Corp recently gave a $2 million dollar gift to the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science to provide for advanced research into carbon nanotubes. Easton Sports (look here for more HSE info on Easton Hockey) has been a leader in using advanced technologies and materials in manufacturing sports equipment for many years. This is another way that they are hoping to get a jump on a new era of better equipment for hockey and their many other sports lines.

Carbon nanotubes are layers of graphite that are built up from the level of single atoms. They have amazing strength for their weight and this allows them to be used to design even more advanced ice hockey sticks and other sports equipment. Are you interested in a hockey stick that weights significantly less than today’s lightest models but will be even more durable? Sign me up!

The original article from UCLA News can be found here.

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Key snippets from the article include:

The stick uses a third generation toughened high-end resin system, Araldite NanoTech Composite new RTM system, to meet the most stringent demands of ice hockey players.

… and …

The Busch ice hockey stick is made of carbon and glass braids around a synthetic foam core which provide the stiffness needed to release maximum energy. This assembly is then inserted in a mould with an injection point at one end and an outlet point at the other end. Araldite NanoTech Composite is injected into the mould to impregnate the braids. This technology has been patented by Busch to produce the only true one-piece composite hockey stick with continuous fibre strengthening and no joints.

The article also state that the Swiss National Hockey team used pre-released versions of these 1 piece composite hockey sticks during the 2008 World Championships in Canada and that the stick were well regarded.

The original article can be found here.

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Easton Hockey

Here are some very interesting statistics from a PR piece off of Easton’s cooperate web site.

As of the close of the NHL regular season, Easton posted a record 371 players in a Easton Composite stick! That amounts to nearly 52% of the world’s best players scoring game winning goals with world’s best composite stick. Think about that! That is more players choosing Easton than ALL other companies COMBINED! More than Bauer, More than Warrior, More than Rbk, More than EVERYBODY! Why would you step on the ice with anything else?

The “article” has a few more stats regarding the % goals scored with Easton hockey sticks.

You can find the original article here.

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The official NHL rules on playing with two hockey sticks…

A player who participates in the play, who checks or who intentionally prevents the movement of an opponent, or who intentionally plays the puck while carrying two sticks (including while carrying a replacement stick to his goalkeeper) shall incur a minor penalty.

Here is the first 2 hockey stick video..

Here is another camera angle on the double hockey stick play with some flabbergasted commentators

Because it is against the rules, you just don’t see this very often

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Chris Mason With Blade Tape

David Hutchison with In Goal Magazine just posted a nice audio interview with Nick Dube the Director, Operations & Business Development at BladeTape. The photos of Cujo and Mason are pretty sweet too!

Check out the full article and audio interview at In Goal Magazine.

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