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- From: macro@cup.hp.com (Patrick MacRoberts)
- Subject: Re: Aluminum hockey sticks
- Sender: news@cup.hp.com (News Admin)
- Message-ID: <MACRO.93Jan26105842@hpcobr30.cup.hp.com>
- In-Reply-To: gp2011@andy.bgsu.edu's message of Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:56:44 GMT
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:58:45 GMT
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- Organization: Nazi Right-Wing Parenting Monthly
- Followup-To: rec.sport.hockey
-
- %> Has anyone else heard of reports of problems with aluminum stick
- %> blades breaking off often?
-
- They break, yes, but they don't appear to break with any more
- regularity than wooden sticks (at least in MY experience, they don't).
-
- % During one of our games this year, I remember one of my teammates breaking
- % his blade with the first shot he took with it.
-
- Probably a dry blade. The same thing happens with wooden sticks.
- They get dry, lose any flexibility they had, and break.
-
- % Another problem with aluminum sticks is that the shaft does not break.
- % I know that is the whole point, but it is very dangerous.
-
- Tell that to the Lacrosse players in the audience. Aluminum shafts
- BEND if you do something heinous to/with them.
-
- % Have you ever seen someone give a cross-check to another player's back
- % and the stick break?
-
- Yeah. I watched Tom Pederson cross check a Canuck with an aluminum
- stick as well. The thing bent like a pretzel.
-
- % The reason is that there is one certain part of the vertebrae that
- % is too strong and it will just break the stick. Well, if this is done
- % with an aluminum stick, it can cause a serious back injury.
-
- If a cross-check is delivered with a wooden shaft, it can cause
- serious back injury.
-
- % This is why I never use aluminum sticks.
-
- Because you cross-check people from behind? Why don't you just stop
- cross-checking people. Problem solved. ;-)
-
- -Patrick "I use aluminum because replacement blades are 50% of the
- cost of replacement sticks..."
-