I've been meaning to bring this up so why not now?

I'm not crazy about those things...................it's just constant time snapping game in and game out shift after shift. it's been real terrible this tournament too!!...........just look at Nash in the NOR game!!

I know you can shoot harder with them and they are lighter but who cares?

What was wrong with the old wooden sticks?

They've never changed them in baseball and it works just fine.

The change has killed mens tennis in a lot of fast court tournaments.'

what about legislating them back to wood?

the things are constantly snapping if you ask me and it gets on my nerves.

I'm pretty sure Peltonen's broke in the FIN-CAN match.

it's going on all the time.

i think they should turf them myself.

I'm pretty sure a Finn got a penalty in the USA game because they American himself stepped on his own stick and it broke.

Not only do they break, they are also kinda slippery i think wasn't it Heatley who dropped his and couldn't pick it up for, like a couple minutes. On the other hand, they probably save a bit of the Amazon rain forests.

i suppose

pretty sure they don't use tropical hard woods for sticks there bomcan!

Well technology creeps in everywhere....sure some folks hated that the curved stick made it...
For every opportunity missed because of a broken stick 6 other goals went in because of it!
Broken sticks will just lead to better technology IMO..... seeing folks are happy forking over 100's of $$$ these puppies aren't going away believe me!

My Bantam aged son goes thru 10 or more a season at $250 plus....I'm on ur side Drydenov!

Yo Dad....
don't you control the bank?
WTF ya doing spendin 3 friggin grand on sticks???
Hope he makes it so he can pay ya back

Tell me about it....level playing field Ray...majority of other Rep kids got em....that sort of thing....btw I believe they (composite sticks) are absolutely destroying the art of stickhandling at the minor league level...no "feel" to the farking things at all..watch a Triple A Midget or Bantam team play.....ridiculous....everyone just pushing the puck around.....but lotsa howitzers on the ice....that for certain....

Another good point brought up by candon.........the youth stickhandling issue.

he's right....................the feel just ain't the same and i see far too may kids pushing the puck along like candon says.

No good.

i think you just get used to the feel of them, they aren't as responsive when recieving a pass either, but you get used to cushioning the puck more.

personally i couldn't go back to using wood and for only one reason, and that is the lightness of the composite stick.
i was given a bunch of them a few years ago and once i had gone through them i went back to wood...but not for long, the wood stick felt like a 2 x 4 after using composites.

but the breaking of these things is ridiculous, i've only ever broken two myself, but then again i figure i'm not strong enough to really put a lot of strain on the stick.

Amazing that they can't make sticks that hold better than now. It's the fricken space age no?

Or maybe they can, but won't, since they wouldn't sell so many then.

Yeah that's it!!!

I don't know much about the subject you're discussing but that statement is so true about most things made these days................ things are not made to last......... things are made so they would not last so people have to keep buying them again and again............so infuriating (even if you are capable of repairing them... the parts are more expensive than the whole new product so it's not worth it)

Once the stick gets a nick in it's armour they are toast!
One of my Snowboard suppliers is using Bamboo instead of Carbon Fibre, same tensile strength but doesn't suffer from repeated bending the way Carbon Fibre does...not as light as Carbon but much lighter than traditional wood used in sticks.

Hmmmmm....
maybe I'm on to somethin'
1st Bamboo stick I see I'll be thinkin' damn had that idea ages ago