He grew up in my town, so the entire town was kinda a mess when he got hit, I got a hockey card of him that his mom took from his apartment, I haven't met him in person his son is a couple years younger then me and we were in the same school, Nathan wasn't in town to much, I remember when he won the cup and brought it to town was really got him to sign a Jersey I had on, (i guess i did met him just didn't say to much i was also little so I don't remember to much)
It softens the glue so the sticker comes off clean, and it doesn't leave little bits of sticker, which you then have to pick off for an hour. Guy knows what he's doing.
CCM Ribcore stick "Do you paint that or does it come like that" Yes... because an NHL player is worried about having a large CCM logo and a model name stamped in logo form right on their stick apart from maybe Horton who sprays the green off a bit...
Difference in high level players and recreational players. A high level player will notice huge differences in lie and flex with even a centimeter of difference. It can completely thwart their game.
The equipment managers have tons of other work to do for the players already, believe me. Standard procedure for all hockey teams is that unless it is something very simple like taping the blade of a player's stick during play or in between the periods (they would probably know which colour tape and thickness the player uses), they do not prepare or touch the players' sticks as each of them like to have them made up/cut down/filed/sand-papered/etc all differently, including how each player prefers to do their own butt end/knob. In the case of Fedor Tyutin, as he demonstrates in this video, he uses a rubber "Tacki-Mac" grip (7 inch version...it also comes in a 4 inch).
Each NHL team budgets for at least 100 sticks per player per season. A few sticks left over at the end of the season are usually given to the players to take home for their summer use and the rest of any additional extras are usually sold at the team's end of season equipment fire sale. For road trips, the equipment staff need to know how many new sticks to take on the road for each player depending on how many each guy is known to break and how long the road trip is. Note, this doesn't count their game sticks which are already made up and prepared for game and practice use and are packed separately. Mario Lemieux always used 4 sticks every game...one for pre-game warm-up that he would keep as back-up and a new stick for each period...that's over 300 sticks per season. Alex Ovechkin has been known to rotate through 8 sticks per game. Wayne Gretzky went through hundreds and hundreds of sticks per season back when he used his wood Titan sticks because he wanted to use as stiff a stick as possible. When he switched to the Easton aluminum shaft to take advantage of reduced stick weight, that number dropped significantly but he still always traveled with a lot of sticks anyway due to his breaking records, or scoring hat tricks or giving sticks away to fans, friends, team staff, teammates, opposing teammates or to charities, etc.
Why? They are the best of the best and are sponsored by some of the largest companies in the world. The price of one of those sticks is pennies compared to how much those players make.
She is basically saying they should be grateful since nearly a quarter of hockey players don’t make it to the nhl and that’s because they can’t get good equipment
@@tmlfan7785 he is one of the announcers for the blue jackets. His style of broadcasting is fantastic for new fans just learning the game. He dumbs it down for everyone and asks some pretty good questions
LOL players don’t do this. Equipment managers do. Sure players take their sticks their way but the cutting and unwrapping sticks is equipment managers. Why this video portrays players do all this is funny. I played. Seems fake
