Ice Hockey Sticks

Hockey Stick Length vs. Flex: How Cutting Your Stick Affects its Flex

Cutting your stick length a significant amount will increase its flex. Use the following Hockey Stick Length vs. Flex Chart to help determine how much your flex will change when cutting your stick.

Cutting the stick down

Base Flex
in length changes the flex:

2″
4″
6″

Youth
42
49 Flex
57 Flex
67 Flex

Junior
52
60 Flex
68 Flex
77 Flex

INT
67
74 Flex
80 Flex
87 Flex

Senior
77
84 Flex
92 Flex
100 Flex

Senior
87
96 Flex
105 Flex
112 [...]

Hockey Stick Flex: Produce Better Shots With The Right Flex/Stiffness

Welcome to the Hockey Stick Flex Guide. This article should arm you with all of the information that you need to answer the common question of “what flex hockey stick should I use?”
Hockey Stick Flex is a measure of how flexible or how stiff a hockey stick is when a force is applied to it. [...]

Interesting Hockey Stick Patents

While doing a search for hockey stick info recently, I came across some links to sites that list US patents. I found some pretty interesting patents and thought I would share some of what I found.
There are multiple sites that have patent listing and the one I used was www.freepatentsonline.com. You can do a search [...]

Hockey Stick Length

Length of Hockey Sticks:
Ice Hockey Sticks come in different sizes and configurations to match to every hockey player. Standard hockey stick configuration names and their range of lengths are:

Junior = 46-53 inches
Intermediate = around 54 inches
Senior = 56-63 inches

Extra long shafts are also available. For example, the Warrior Ak27 X-Long shaft comes 6 [...]

Composite Hockey Sticks: How Its Made [Video]

5 minute video on the making of today’s composite hockey sticks.
The primary material of today’s composite hockey sticks is graphite. 15 sheets of graphite laid down in different directions go into making the hockey stick shaft.
It is cool to see the flex tester in action. This is the machine that helps to determine the hockey [...]