Dudeman1967
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My oldest son has owned a hockey stick since before he was born. His grandma was from Canadia Land. He played ice hockey from 6 through high school and roller hockey in college. I bought a lot of hockey sticks.
Recently he has started playing pickup hockey. He finally had to buy his own hockey stick at age 27. He showed me his new $300 wonder of engineering. Great flex, good feel, nice good length and curve for a defenseman. Think Chris Pronger.
Carbon fiber sticks were just becoming available when he was big enough to gain any advantage from such a stick.
Like every kid he just HAD to have one. I get him one after he showed me harder effort to the puck. His play improved mostly on the effort not the material in his stick.
He started playing at a higher level and made the case for a secondary stick for games. Hard to argue.
At a game soon after his team give up a bad goal and he broke his stick in half over the goal crossbar. $200 gone!
He wasn't very sorry. His backup became my fiberglass stick. It was green, ugly and cost me $10 used.
A decade and a half later as he shows me his new stick. I bring up the stick over the goal incident. I asked hin to imagine having to buy that stick with two kids, two cars, a mortgage and credit card debt.
He looked me staight in the eye and said he was truely sorry. Though delayed, It was a great Dad moment.
Share 'em if you got 'em.
Recently he has started playing pickup hockey. He finally had to buy his own hockey stick at age 27. He showed me his new $300 wonder of engineering. Great flex, good feel, nice good length and curve for a defenseman. Think Chris Pronger.
Carbon fiber sticks were just becoming available when he was big enough to gain any advantage from such a stick.
Like every kid he just HAD to have one. I get him one after he showed me harder effort to the puck. His play improved mostly on the effort not the material in his stick.
He started playing at a higher level and made the case for a secondary stick for games. Hard to argue.
At a game soon after his team give up a bad goal and he broke his stick in half over the goal crossbar. $200 gone!
He wasn't very sorry. His backup became my fiberglass stick. It was green, ugly and cost me $10 used.
A decade and a half later as he shows me his new stick. I bring up the stick over the goal incident. I asked hin to imagine having to buy that stick with two kids, two cars, a mortgage and credit card debt.
He looked me staight in the eye and said he was truely sorry. Though delayed, It was a great Dad moment.
Share 'em if you got 'em.