NHL goalies have been catching up to forwards and defensemen for the past five seasons when it comes to the widespread adoption of composite sticks. The problem is, the wood stick holdouts can't find ...
BRANTFORD, Ontario — Wearing protective gloves and earplugs, a worker feeds lengths of wood into a machine that makes an earsplitting whine as it automatically cuts a groove into the end of each piece ...
Goalies are keeping wood sticks alive in the NHL, but perhaps not for long. Composite sticks have been popular for a while among forwards and defensemen, who have embraced the lighter weight and ...