Hockey sticks
Which of the two sticks that publish a flex is for you?
Most of this shelf publishes a brand and a length. These two publish a flex — 70 and 75 — and between them they give a length, a curve, a hand and a shaft material. Neither gives all of those, and reading them together shows what a complete stick listing would look like.
| Compared on | W250 SR | Stinger, senior 75 flex, W03 |
|---|---|---|
| Level | Street hockey, stated as the player class | Senior |
| Length | 166 cm overall; 152 cm stated for the shaft | Not published |
| Flex | 70 | 75 |
| Curve | Not published; the shaft geometry is described as classic with rounded edges | W03 |
| Hand | Not published | Left — lower hand on the left |
| Shaft material | Not published | Composite |
| Blade material | Not published | Not published |
| Weight | Not published | Not published |
A tick means one listing published something the other did not, or published a better figure. It does not mean the product is better, and the column is not a score out of anything: a maker who says less loses lines here without losing a comparison. The two verdicts below are where the page is settled.
The only stick on this shelf that publishes two lengths — overall and shaft — which is what lets a buyer work out how much can be cut off. It states its player class as street hockey, and a stick sold for asphalt is a different object from one sold for ice.
A senior composite that publishes the three things a player asks for: a flex of 75, a W03 curve and the hand. What it leaves unpublished is a length, which on a stick that is cut to the player’s height is the number needed before ordering.
Roughly the force in pounds needed to bend the shaft a set distance, and it is chosen against the player’s weight — a common starting point is about half the body weight in pounds. Cutting a stick shorter stiffens it, which is why the two published lengths on one of these matter.
A pattern number for the blade’s bend, which changes how the puck lifts and how it sits on the backhand. W03 is one such code. It means nothing outside its maker’s range, but it is a code you can look up, and only one of these two publishes one.
It refers to which hand is lower on the shaft, not to which hand you write with. One of these states it and the other does not, and it is the single specification that makes a stick unusable if it is wrong.
70 flex, 166 cm overall, 152 cm shaft, street hockey class
The only stick here that publishes a flex and two lengths — and it is sold for street hockey.
Best for: A street hockey player of around 63 kg, by the half-body-weight rule of thumb
≈ £51 / €46
Senior composite, 75 flex, W03 curve, left
The dearest stick here, a senior composite with its flex and curve published — and its description repeated twice.
Best for: A senior player of around 68 kg who already knows they want a W03
≈ €93
The live figure beside a product went and asked the shop for it the moment this page opened; any amount written into the text has not moved since the sentence was drafted, and it is the first of the two that counts.
