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An ice hockey stick is a piece of equipment used in ice hockey to shoot, pass, and carry the puck across the ice. Ice hockey sticks are approximately 150–200 cm long, composed of a long, slender shaft with a flat extension at one end called the blade.
In 1976 it began making tent frames, and in 1978 produced aluminum tennis racquet frames for Prince Sports. During the late 1970s, an Easton engineer who played hockey began working on an aluminum hockey stick shaft. The stick received approval to be used in the National Hockey League in 1981, and in 1982 went into use.
Girl with a field hockey stick. A hockey stick is a piece of sports equipment used by the players in all the forms of hockey to move the ball or puck (as appropriate to the type of hockey) either to push, pull, hit, strike, flick, steer, launch or stop the ball/puck during play with the objective being to move the ball/puck around the playing area using the stick, and then trying to score.
The Victoriaville brand of hockey stick was created in 1945 by Henri Mailhot (1900–1976), who formed the company Mailhot & Frères, Inc. In 1952, Henri's business was taken over by four of his sons, Gérard (1924–2010), Bertrand (1927–1994), Léo-Paul (1929–2014), and Raymond (1931–2010).
The company made a specially-designed model for him that he used until 1990, at which point he switched to an Easton two-piece aluminium stick. [1] In 1998, Karhu Canada, which had been renamed the Sports Holdings Corporation, was purchased by SLM International, [2] which was renamed The Hockey Company the following year. [3]
Soon after, Patterson's teammate Doug Gilmour began using a Hespeler stick with a flat blade. [9] In September 1997, Davies sold Hespeler Hockey to First Team Sports, Inc. of Minneapolis. Since 1990, Wayne Gretzky had worked with First Team as an ambassador for the company's inline skates, and was a major shareholder in the company. [10]
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