Savvy. ONE THING that has intrigued me for YEARS is what length certain players have their twigs at on them while they are on their jets! You, out of all people, I believe could answer this. Help me out bro! And save me searching ENDLESS places!
McDavid continues to use his stick when the tape job on the blade is half butchered, like the big hole in the heel of the stick in the demo. See this even in OT with the game on the line. This series may be the best thing on youtube right now. Keep them coming Marc!
These videos are awesome, loved watching you play. I think it would be cool if you shared what curves guys use and your thoughts on them. This is something myself and others spend hours on online forums debating/comparing
You’re one of my favorite players I watched in Atlanta. It would be cool if you did a Thrashers teammate Kovalchuk or Heatley. Heatley has that crazy thick knob too so that might be a challenge or something you could just talk about in a video
Hey Savvy, miss ya brother! You were my hero on the bruins, always will be! I always tried to model my game after you. Love the series! I have another twig question for you. I’ve been experimenting with the length of my twig recently to see how different lengths feel; so my question is.. where did you cut off your twigs when you played? Did you have a point or reference? Again love the series! You’re the man!
This dude seems real cool and down to earth, Love the vids! How about a throwback video with some classics like - lindros, Stevens, chelios, modano, forsberg, H
Hey Marc, when you mentioned that you don't like the toe to heel tape job I just was wondering why that is? I know a lot of it comes down to player preference, and you obviously got so used to heel to toe, but is there a competitive advantage that you found or just feel? I know when I played I did toe to heel since I liked having the puck come up from the heel and on the way up it wouldn't peel any tape up. Loving the videos and hope to see some more in the future!
Kevin Fiala’s old tape job was interesting Also Ryan Johansen if you wanted to do a Nashville themed episode. Keep the videos coming Savvy you’re a beauty
Another great vid but you dont usually do the same amount of overlap.. When i tape my blade I tape a little before the halfway area and I tape have the overlap very thin because it uses less tape and has less bumps to slow the puck (theoretically)
Are you the guy who always has those game used sticks online? And before you make a request, make sure if he has the video as in people asking for a vid that’s already been made
I'll have to review the series here to see but can you someday put a "show" together of some old players' sticks and compare? My Shayne Corson, for example, was 695 grams and seems he was using it at 57.5 inches. Old Vic 4050. Heard about Rick Vaive's Titan, Big Bertha etc. ...how much did it weigh? Heard Wayne's Titans were also heavy. Pucks stayed on that blade with that thick, heavy shaft. What lengths are some of the players using today? I see McDavid is using a blade about 10 inches long and Kane's is about 11 inches. The stick shafts were short until the changes - everyone at 55" maximum shaft length late 70's yet. Saw where some custom Christians of Ed Courtenay had a dovetail joint used and an extension put in to lengthen the shaft past 55". Fiberglass overlay was set in as to give it perfect strength. I tried to ask a "stick collector" one day about the length of Crosby's stick as it seems shorter than some others allowing him to "knife through" defenses and still have puck control and realized why Hullsy hated the "collectors" - bid on the stick and I'll tell you the length of Sid's stick...what?...those aren't hockey fans. In the eighties before "the game-used stick craze" we used to get many different players twigs as there were some of us who got the local(STL for me)sticks and traded them. I remember getting the Krushelnyski, Anderson Canadians from the Oilers and a new Messier for my trade of a Vic Sutter(54 inches), Federko Titan(52 inches) & Gilmour Titan(55 inches length). I enjoy these videos - cool. I was always particular about my stick and using the same-if you're going to get hit and beat on a bit you want to score at the other end so familiarity was paramount. And the Blues days under Ralston-Purina and Harry Ornest I could go to the practice rink in Affton and see the players sticks and buy discarded or new ones. 1989 some custom Gilmour Titans were $185.00 for a dozen plus delivery. Big John Wensink came back to St Louis after his NHL days with a Don Lever Canadian - I had my Sutter and Big John liked the pattern. Fun days. I'm with you Savvy!! I like seeing these!!!! HOCKEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Savy could you answer or respond to the statement that all the curve patterns that are named after players are simply a marketing ploy and that many players have custom patterns that aren’t available to the public unless you can get a prostock twig that was actually setup by or for a pro. Similar to back in the day when most guys heated up the fiberglass infused blade and bent it in a door or vice. Thanks.
Im sure you figured this one out by now but its yes and no, some players for sure use standard blade curves or vary vary close to them, as you gotta remember NHLers just like the rest of us grew up using off the shelf curves so they have built a fondness for one curve shape or another over time, just like the rest of us... kinda like how the off the shelf Ovi curve use to be a Sakic curve and I believe its now named after another player... Ovi is also one of those players that took a Sakic curve and tweaked it to the max for his own play style, Sakic himself played with a much different curve then his retail signature curve... a more mellowed profile (theres an interview where sakic describes his true game used curve, that he created and he or the interviewer mention whats most similar to his true curve at the retail level, but i forget which it was... maybe a crosby curve (crosbys true curve is also one known to much different then the retail signature curve) its funny to think though that what was Sakics true curve could be a standard retail curve just has never been properly named after him. Mcdavid If i recalled took the Crosby curve (retail or true curve i dont know) and tweaked i for himself and Tavares now uses a curve that combines elements of both the Crosby and Mcdavid curve... or at least whats being marketed as his signature curve but it was an A.Jones curve I believe before it became the Tavares curve Also consider this, the signature curves marketed by manufactures may have vary well been a exact mold of a curve that said player used at a given point in time... for instance you can find Tavares pro-stock sticks with an A.Jones curve... The A.Jones curve has now become the Taveres curve at a retail level but on ice the curve taveres uses might actually be a tweaked A.jones curve. once a molds been made and marketed as a signature curve it can be tough for manufactures to suddenly switch things on consumers. some players probably experiment with curve profiles much more then others... for some they might use the same curve for years, other might change there curves nearly yearly and as that player continues to tweak and mod the curve more to there liking, its not really feasible or even logical for manufactures to keep up with every single minute change a player has done to there "signature curve" when it comes to satisfying consumers on the retail level, since once people become accustomed to a certain retail curve profile being readily available year in year out, manufactures must precede with caution when it comes to making minor or major changes to highly popular curve profiles, as people would be furious if there beloved curve profile changed from year to year or if manufactures suddenly discontinued the curve... of course theres a percentage of people that would love if the retail curves actually stayed true year in year out to what the player truly use on the ice... but that said, consider with how popular the Sakic curve was and always has been... regardless of who its named after, with its quite distant aggressive curve profile, people would be ticked off if what they consider a Sakic curve got changed at the retail level to being a true Sakic curve... which again, was much more mellow but theres those that would love that. Also interesting to consider is manufactures gotta make the curve profiles appealing and beneficial to the largest number of people... whereas true player curves are tweaked and modified to said players specific playing style and there own person needs and wants on the ice, so the benefits of the tweaks that a pro makes to there "signature curves" might diminish rapidly if you dont happen to play near identical to that player... for instance, I suspect a lot of pros have a lower stick lie then found at retail, since NHLers skate so much lower to the ice then your average non professional player and since majority of consumers at the retail level dont skate anywhere near the skill level of the pros, the performance benefits of a low lie stick wouldnt be actually achieved by the average consumer and could infact be detrimental to the consumers game play and the actual few interested in such a niche market of low lie sticks may be feasibly to small for manufactures to be concerned with at the retail level... for the market of players that actually want and care about getting the real deal exact spec'd gear that the pros use, the prostock market is quite fascinating and has a lot to offer to those that want the niche and custom blade curves of some pros.
