Other Ice Hockey Sticks

I feel I need to write about these as one nearly cost me my lower teeth on training last Saturday. Our Goalie was wielding his massive stick (oo er) and caught me across the lower jaw with the side of it. Opened my chin up like a tin can with Claret going everywhere. Anyway, enough of my injuries, on with a description of the different types and style of goalie stick. To go in between the pipes with small vulcanised rubber being aimed at your head is insane. To want to do it is even more twisted. Yet goalies suit up and take their stance week after week on the ice. While their kit is very different to a player's kit, so is their Stick. Rather ...

INNOVATIVE is a small US company that has patents on a POLARFIBRE GRAPHITE COMPOSITE that they use in their hockey sticks. The shaft is a GRAPHITE and GLASS FIBRE combination matrix. The resulting material is very extremely stiff and therefore provides a very stiff composite shaft. Unfortunately they do not offer the wide range of stiffness and designs that other more established manufacturers do. They have decided to focus on NICHE markets within the UNITED STATES without a NICHE PRODUCT. They approached many professional teams and although the players were initially quite responsive to the sticks they never caught on. This lack of success in the PRO Market and a ...