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Originally Posted by flameswin
If not more. The top end models for most of the major brands retail between $249 and $300. It really does make a difference.
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In another thread I found some research from U of C that concluded expensive sticks do not perform any better than wood sticks. Will look for that . . .
http://www.canoe.ca/Slam040212/nhl_meet-sun.html
Wooden sticks outperformed the composite sticks.
"This correlates to what is happening on the ice where the composite sticks break after some slashes," Dryden said.
Players who prefer the composite sticks say it makes their shots harder, but Dryden expressed some reservations.
"The composite stick does load quickly and get the shot away quicker," he said. "And there appears to be a bonus about increasing the velocity of the wrist shot.
"The slap shot seems to be very comparable -- wood and composite.
"But for some reason, the composite seems to be better on the wrist shot."
As long as it's in one piece.
This article says composite sticks are better:
https://illumin.usc.edu/printer/223/...ck-revolution/
Advances in composite technology have revolutionized the hockey stick and the game of hockey. Today, almost every hockey player, novice to professional, uses a composite hockey stick. Composite sticks are ideal because they combine the feel and shooting flexibility of wood with the stiffness and stability of aluminum. Composite hockey sticks may be the best on the market today, but in the future, there will always be room for new technologies.
Stiffness variation in hockey sticks and the impact on stick
performance
http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/3716/1/Carlisle12MRes.pdf