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Originally Posted by Frequitude
I hate to admit it, but this may be the only way out...if you want change in the first place that is.
You can't shrink the equipment when snapshots are approaching 180 km/hr.
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MacInnis, Brett Hull etc could really shoot the puck, and I don't remember any serious injuries to goalies then.
There is only anecdotal evidence that the new sticks shoot the puck harder. The only academic research I could find so far, showed that wood sticks perform no worse than the new sticks (U of C).