Wood Hockey Sticks
Although hockey sticks have evolved drastically after the invention of composite ice hockey sticks, some hockey traditionalists still use wood hockey sticks and they would argue that the wooden hockey sticks offer a better feel for the puck than does the composite hockey sticks. If you think about it, just a decade ago most hockey players in amateur as well as professional hockey used the wood hockey stick over any other option available at the time. Today however, there are very few professional hockey players that still use a wood ice hockey stick. One such player is Paul Stastny of the Colorado Avalanche, he is a phenomenal hockey player with a great scoring touch and stick handling ability, and I would guess that if you asked him why he still uses wood hockey sticks, he would tell you that it is because he prefers how the puck feels on a wood stick as opposed to the one piece composite sticks that 99% of professionals use today.
Though some players do still prefer the wooden hockey stick, it is pretty tough to argue that the composite hockey stick offers up much more powerful shots and quicker releases. Evidence of this is the fact that scoring is up a big over the last few years in the professional ranks. Many professionals using the composite stick would also argue that they prefer the feel of the puck on their stick as opposed to the wood stick. Just like with anything, your choice for hockey stick amounts to what you like in a stick and what you are used to.
Although professionals have an unlimited amount of composite hockey sticks at their disposal, this is definitely not the case for amateurs. These composite sticks are incredibly expensive which forces many amateurs, who cannot afford to pay upwards of two hundred dollars per stick, to use wood hockey sticks to simply save money. I am guessing that most wood hockey stick manufacturers target market are the amateur players who can’t quite afford to pay for the incredibly expensive one piece composite hockey sticks. The fact of the matter is that wood hockey sticks are perfectly good hockey sticks that more people might want to consider using. Unless you are a highly skilled hockey player with a good shot, you probably will not notice much benefit from using a composite stick over a wood stick because you simply do not have the skill necessary to make that composite stick work effectively for you. Choose a wood ice hockey stick in order to save money and learn how to shoot well before investing a lot of money into the composite stick.
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