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What makes a top-end hockey stick cost $300? We asked Dave Sauvé of Valiquette Source for Sports for some pointers.
• All modern sticks are a mix of carbon fibre and graphite, which is why they’re called “composite.” But the sticks that sell for less than $100 have more graphite and the expensive ones are proportionately more carbon.
• Carbon is lighter and “whippier” and the stick may weigh only 390 grams. “It responds better to shots, so when you’re flexing it, it snaps forward quicker. They do tend to break a little bit quicker at the higher end though”, Sauvé says.
“It gives you more of a snapshot bonus. It’s letting the stick do more of the work.”
Graphite is heavier and stiffer, so a stick weighs up to 500 grams. These sticks are cheaper but stronger.
• The industry now measures whippiness on a scale, from 100 (stiff) to 85 (fairly standard) to 75 (extra-whippy, which Phil Kessel uses.)
• With the extreme flexing, players will often hit the ice with the stick ahead of the puck. That puts extra flex into the shaft of the stick, so that the blade will then snap forward through the puck, “and when it comes off (the blade), it’s coming off real quick.” It also breaks a lot of sticks.
• With a composite stick “you can shoot more off the toe of the stick instead of the heel because the blades are stiff all the way through. With wood they tend to get soft near the end of the blade.
“Ovechkin, when he takes a wrist shot … he puts it right off the toe with his two hands together and just lets it rip.”
• Top-end sticks are manufactured as a single piece. Cheaper sticks are a blade and shaft fused together.
• Yes, graphite and carbon fibre are the same mix that go into tennis rackets and golf clubs. The different sports technologies influence each other. CCM advertises that its top-end sticks are “powered by TaylorMade,” the golf equipment company.
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• All modern sticks are a mix of carbon fibre and graphite, which is why they’re called “composite.” But the sticks that sell for less than $100 have more graphite and the expensive ones are proportionately more carbon.
• Carbon is lighter and “whippier” and the stick may weigh only 390 grams. “It responds better to shots, so when you’re flexing it, it snaps forward quicker. They do tend to break a little bit quicker at the higher end though”, Sauvé says.
“It gives you more of a snapshot bonus. It’s letting the stick do more of the work.”
Graphite is heavier and stiffer, so a stick weighs up to 500 grams. These sticks are cheaper but stronger.
• The industry now measures whippiness on a scale, from 100 (stiff) to 85 (fairly standard) to 75 (extra-whippy, which Phil Kessel uses.)
• With the extreme flexing, players will often hit the ice with the stick ahead of the puck. That puts extra flex into the shaft of the stick, so that the blade will then snap forward through the puck, “and when it comes off (the blade), it’s coming off real quick.” It also breaks a lot of sticks.
• With a composite stick “you can shoot more off the toe of the stick instead of the heel because the blades are stiff all the way through. With wood they tend to get soft near the end of the blade.
“Ovechkin, when he takes a wrist shot … he puts it right off the toe with his two hands together and just lets it rip.”
• Top-end sticks are manufactured as a single piece. Cheaper sticks are a blade and shaft fused together.
• Yes, graphite and carbon fibre are the same mix that go into tennis rackets and golf clubs. The different sports technologies influence each other. CCM advertises that its top-end sticks are “powered by TaylorMade,” the golf equipment company.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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