Are Canadian Hockey Sticks Better?

But our global warming climatologists can make a "Hockey Stick" out of anything!

Give them a straight line and a little leeway in either direction with access to a good graph zooming viewfinder and they will give you a Hockey stick!

so I don't know if this is the right forum or not but here goes...

when I was a kid, a good hockey stick was 5$.. hardwood.. all good

rarely broke.

when I was a teenager, a good hockey stick was 20$ and had some fiberglass

rarely broke.. most got broke on the road, not the rink.

I stopped playing in 1986... and havent paid much attention to prices.. but went to get my new skates sharpened last week, and nearly pooped when I saw prices of 100$ to 250$... and I watch the olympics and sticks are breaking all over the place.. and I don't think heavier hockey sticks slow the play that much.. and the old timers had lots of getupandgo... so what really is the deal.

I good old wooden stick should still cost just 20$.. you could get 25 of them from a sheet of 3/4" plywood... Why would they be that expensive, and why aren't there manufacturers providing affordable alterntives??

Chris

Wrong store?
Fyz

welllllll.....maybe not.....maybe not...........

They had the same thing with Baseball bats breaking a while back..........must be steroids.

Chris old chap......point is that the game that was just played belongs amongst notable legends the closest description that I can come up with is the Gunfight at the OK Corral.........

But you are definately right about the hardwood hockey sticks losing their strength characteristics. Large regions of Canada have seen warming temperatures over the past 30-40 years. Whether attributable to global warming or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is up for scrutiny (The evidence of which can be seen in the growth rings).

Throw the horse over the fence some hay, eh?

Bad dog.....no cookie

Yep...slower growth, compact grain. Ga....

good for you.....it must be the hockey sticks. Way Back in 1980, the Russians said they had a shortage of sticks and didn't want to break them. Thats why we won.

Miracle on Ice and the one just played were amongst the best hockey I've seen.......don't know about you guys but the numbers aren't in for how many Canucks were hospitalized with coronaries in the last seconds..........