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 [...]

Easton Hockey Factory – Building a Hockey Stick

Heidi Androl visits the Easton Hockey Factory to help build Ryan Getzlaf’s next hockey stick.
Video: 3:25 Minutes from NHL.TV

Hockey Stick Selection With Coach Tom Martin [video]

Here is a good beginner’s guide on proper hockey stick selection with coach Tom Martin from Sportskool.
The 3 minute video covers:

The right hockey stick length is about chin height when standing in skates
The right stick lie is one that keeps the blade flat on the ice
How to tape the handle of a hockey stick with [...]

Hockey Gloves: How Its Made [video]

Hockey gloves are made up of about 30 different parts.
The covering material is called the outer shell. It can be made of genuine leather or synthetic leather. There is even a new synthetic material that is called “carbon” that is tear proof even when slashed by sharp skate blades.
High density foam is very hard and [...]

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 [...]

Hockey Pucks: How Its Made [video]

Here is a 5 minute video about how ice hockey pucks are made.
Did you know…

that the earliest ice hockey pucks were made of wood?
that there are 11 different ingredients that go into making hockey pucks?

It is amazing to see how much of the manufacturing process is still done by hand.
Pretty cool video on ice hockey [...]

Wood Hockey Sticks: How Its Made [video]

Here is a 5 and a half minute video on how modern wood ice hockey sticks are made.
Ice Hockey Stick Shafts are made of poplar & birch wood with carbon reinforced fiberglass
Especially cool is to see the 6,000 unique blade patterns from all the hockey greats.
It looks like this was filmed in the Sherwood plant. [...]

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