Ice Hockey Sticks

Can You Play With 2 Hockey Sticks?

You are certainly not supposed to, but Jacub Voracek did without a penalty being called.
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 [...]

Blade Tape For Hockey Goalie Sticks

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.
You can buy Blade Tape directly from the Blade Tape Store.

New hockey stick test machine could help reduce breakage

Excerpts form the original article…
A revolutionary new ice hockey stick test machine looks primed and ready to shoot down its competition.
It just needs to be built.
Unsatisfied with the current principal method used to test stick durability, University of Waterloo engineering prof John McPhee set out to design a new system.

and ..

McPhee believes the answer will [...]

Hockey Sticks of the San Jose Sharks

I was watching a San Jose Sharks game this weekend and they had a short segment about the Sharks Ice Hockey Sticks with their assistant equipment manager Rick Bronwell.
The hockey stick numbers:

Zero wood hockey sticks
100% Composite sticks
2 players use two piece sticks (Joe Thornton and Patrick Marleau)
Everybody else uses 1 piece hockey sticks

The Sharks usually [...]

Most likely “World’s Oldest Hockey Stick”

There is a nice article from the Nanaimo Daily News on Mark Presley’s Hockey Stick. The experts seem to be lining up behind this stick as the most authentic (so far) hockey stick to claim the title of the oldest. The hunt for the hockey stick national treasure continues…

Here are some interesting snippets from the [...]

World’s Largest Hockey Stick and Puck In Need of Repair

The World’s Largest Hockey Stick and Puck (as recognized by the Guinness Book of World’s Records) are in dire need of repair.

Snippet from the article…
Built in 1985, the 205-foot hockey stick is built from Douglas fir beams reinforced with steel, and weighs in at a staggering 61,000 pounds (28,118 kgs).
The puck, well, it’s made out [...]

Green changes his mind and donates his lucky stick to NHL Hall of Fame

Mike Green has changed his mind. The Hockey Hall of Fame can have his record-breaking stick.
The Washington Capitals’ budding star said Wednesday he will donate to the Hall of Fame the stick that served him so well during his eight-game goal-scoring streak, the longest by a defenceman in NHL history. Green had been reluctant to [...]

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