Ice Hockey Sticks

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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