Originally Posted by CDSmith

No hockey last night. I'm in withdrawals here this morning. Either that or not enough coffee. Or both.





You might only have to hit yourself once then. Those new-fangled $200+ dollar composite sticks they use are shattering like side window glass in the wake of a car thief.

I don't recall the old wooden sticks breaking at anything near this rate. Oh, but guys get "more flex", and harder shots is it? Right. There were several guys over the 'wood' years who had 130+ km/hr slapshots. Al MacKinnis, anyone? Dennis Hull, hello? Maybe a stick or two would break per game back in those years.

These days it's more like three per period that snap, shatter, blow up on a crucial point shot, etc. Are they affecting the outcomes of games? You bet at times they are.


I never paid more than $20 for a goddammed hockey stick when I was playing. Now it's $60, $100, $225, etc. Along with the equipment and enrollment fees a parent needs to cough up about $1000 to get their kid into hockey. They've priced the game out of reach of a lot of kids who will now either take up soccer or will wind up stealing your car.

/rant. Time for more coffee...