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One-piece sticks are made by wrapping carbon fiber or other light weight but durable materials around a pattern and then baked and removed.

I haven't seen a ONE PIECE wooden stick in about 50 years.

Modern hockey sticks are made of TWO pieces, the shaft and the blade. There is a joint at the heel of the stick where the shaft and the blade are joined together.

Nowadays, metal shafts are used, as are carbon fibre shafts. The shaft is slightly rounded on it's edges and cames in a number of different thicknesses, and weights, depending on the makers' design. Professional hockey players have their sticks made just for them, and to their specs.

A few players still use completely wooden sticks but the vast majority use metal or carbon fibre combination sticks, for their light weight and their ability to "flex" as they are being shot. The stick "bends" as the player is shooting the puck so the speed is increased. The curve of the blade is also important to puck speed, and passing accuracy. Many sticks have a quite pronounced curve in the blade, but the rules control how "much stick curve is legal".

The rule of thumb about stick length is this............. while the player is wearing skates, the end of the shaft should come to just under the chin, holding the stick blade on it's point end on the ground. The angle of the stick blade is expressed by a number code, which is stamped on the shaft.

Some players use no tape on their blades, while others use a lot of tape. The colour of the tape is a matter of choice, with some preffering white tape while others like black tape. Tape has a certain amount of stickyness to it, and it also helps to cushion the puck when accepting a pass. The butt end of the stick has to have a protective rubber end on it, as a safety measure.

Players have to DROP a stick if it breaks during play. It is a 2 minute penalty to play with a broken stick. The team trainer keeps a complete selection of team sticks on the wall behind the bench, in numerical order, If a player breaks a stick, he heads to the bench to get a new one, "on the fly" as the play will not stop for him. Generally, if a stick is broken and the player cannot get back to the bench to get a new one, a stick will be handed down the line: a goalie's stick would be replaced by a defenseman's, whose stick would be replaced by a forward's.

Goalies' sticks are the only ones that are still all wood. They like the way the wood feels and handles. Goalies are also the only players who may play with a broken stick, but must replace it at the next stoppage of play. Because they are thicker sticks and do not have as much activity, they break much less often than skaters' sticks.

EDIT: Goalie's sticks are now being made from carbon fiber as well. I am not sure of how many NHL goalies use them, but in my men's league there are abundant.

Wooden hockey sticks are and were made from ASH, and Poplar. Both are strong but light and have a long straight grain in the wood.

Currently, here in Canada, about 75 percent of all hockey sticks are still made of wood. An avearge retail price of a good wooden hockey stick is about $20 CDN. A high end composite material stick would cost about $50CDN, and a metal stick goes for over $100. CDN.

Fiberglass
Fiberglass is used as re-inforcement for sticks, but not as the sole material in a stick. Fiberglass material is made like a cloth, so it would not be possible to build stick out of it, it would be too flimsy.

... EASTONS were first made with an Aluminum shaft and a wood blade that would be a 2 piece hockey stick... so basically a wood stick is a one piece... to make it easy.

A one piece hockey stick is either made of carbon fiber, graphite or wood.

RULES: www.nhl.com/rules/index.html

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