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Hockey sticks are a critical piece of your equipment and having the right tool for the job can make all the difference in the world. Hockey Stick Expert is here to help find the best ice hockey sticks or roller hockey sticks for you and take your game to the next level. Topics we hope to cover include terms (like hockey stick flex, hockey stick length, hockey stick lie) and how-tos (Right vs. Left handed Hockey Sticks, taping a hockey stick, cutting a hockey stick to length) and more.
Hockey Stick topics and stick models we cover include:
- Ice Hockey Sticks
- Roller Hockey Sticks
- Street Hockey Sticks
- Wood Hockey Sticks
- Composite Hockey Sticks
- Easton Hockey Sticks
- Sherwood
- CCM and Mission
- TPS
- Goalie Hockey Sticks (would love find somebody to share their expertise here)
- Field Hockey Sticks
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Ice Hockey Stick Composite Technology
I found this blurb on some recent advances in composite technology as applied to building a true one piece composite hockey stick. You can follow this link to find more of our articles on composite hockey sticks.
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.
Filed Under General Hockey Stick Info, Hockey Stick News
Easton Hockey Sticks Dominate The NHL
Easton Hockey Sticks
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.
Filed Under Hockey Stick News
Slapshot Fundamentals – Getting The Most From Your Hockey Stick
There is a REALLY nice post that I just came across at the site Video Analysis Of Sport. The article breaks down the fundamentals of a slapshot.
Slapshot Warrior Hockey
The article is a visual analysis of 2 different shooters and in does a bit of “compare and contrast” analysis of each of there shots. There are a couple of shot video and photos that were supplied by Warrior hockey.
Key points covered in the article include:
Head Position and Eye Direction
The “Anchor” (back leg)
The Follow Through
Check out the full article at slapshot video analysis.
Filed Under Hockey Stick Shooting
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 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
Filed Under Hockey Stick News, Hockey Stick Video
Blade Tape For Hockey Goalie Sticks
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.
You can buy Blade Tape directly from the Blade Tape Store.
Filed Under Buying Hockey Gear, Hockey Stick News
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 lie in testing the sticks dynamically. In other words, measuring the effects acting on the stick from the time it makes contact with the ice to when the puck leaves the blade.
Inspired by his work as a technical advisor for Golf Digest magazine, where computer-controlled robots were used to test out new golf clubs and balls, McPhee designed a robot based upon the same idea: a machine that repeats the exact same shot over and over again.
To make this happen, McPhee realized he had to overcome one major design obstacle.
“You need arms to attach to the stick at two different locations,” said McPhee. “Furthermore, the hockey stick has to be able to bend between those two places.”
This Article was originally published in the The Varsity Magazine and the full article can be found here
Filed Under General Hockey Stick Info, Hockey Stick News, Ice Hockey Shafts
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 bring 3-4 spare sticks to home games for each player but they have many more just 5 minutes away if needed.
Filed Under Hockey Stick News