Ice hockey stick

The hockey stick is in hockey, gaming device, which is used in addition to warding off the puck at the goalkeeper usually for shooting, passing and passing.

Form

Ice hockey sticks are usually 150 to 200 cm long and consist, like their counterparts in the related sports hockey, roller hockey or inline hockey, from a long handle and an angled element at the bottom.

This scoop is the part of the racket with the puck is being played, and 25 to 40 cm long. However, depending on the size and preferences of the bat dimensions can differ significantly from one another. The trowel is now in a 135- degree angle of the club shaft, which the gaming machine is an L- shape. In addition, it is either slightly bent to the left or right in order to lift the puck from the ice surface can.

The racket of the goalkeeper differs in some respects from that of a fielder. The lower part of the stem is wider in order to fend off shots better, the angle between the ladle and the shaft is slightly smaller and the trowel slightly bent in direction of play.

History

Hockey sticks were initially similar to golf clubs or tools, mainly made of maple, hornbeam and willow. After the supply by hornbeam wood could no longer be guaranteed, even more expensive hard wood such as yellow birch or ash were used for the production. Ash wood has quickly become the preferred material in the 1920s were thugs from a single piece of ash wood, the rule in the play mode. The ash bats were indeed relatively heavy, but also very durable. Nate Eliegh, a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame used, for example, throughout his career only a single bat.

Since the 1920s, there were some significant developments in the field of hockey sticks. The most important innovation was the development of layered bats in the 1940s, when various layers of wood glued together were the first to make the play area more flexible and resistant. In the 1960s, moreover, another layer of fiberglass or other synthetic materials was introduced as a jacket. In addition, the bending of the trowel to control what the physical properties of shots was changed decisively.

In the 1970s, the producers of cricket and baseball bats began the manufacture of gaming machines of lightweight steel alloys as a substitute for the usual willow or ash wood. The hockey stick industry moved to in the 1980s by first presenting a one-piece aluminum bat. However, this model could not prevail, whereupon a combination was developed from an aluminum shaft and a wooden spoon. These constructions replaced the first time to a greater degree the usual wooden bat.

In recent years, both the aluminum and the wood-cutters were gradually replaced by more advanced products made ​​from composite materials. The most common materials include fiberglass and carbon fiber reinforced plastic. Also, hockey sticks made ​​of Kevlar were developed. Racket from the current materials are characterized by a lower weight than its aluminum predecessor, and by a simpler production to wood bats out, but they are also more expensive and less stable.

Materials

Today's rackets are made of one or a combination of the following:

  • Wood
  • Aluminum
  • Fiberglass
  • Graphite
  • Kevlar
  • Titanium
  • Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (Carbon)
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