HOCKEY STICK WITH PLASTIC WEAR STRIP

摘要

The hockey stick has a plastic wear strip along the bottom edge of the blade of the stick. Preferably the wear strip is of polyurethane having a flexural modulus in the range of 300 to 550 MPa at room temperature and 1200 to 1400 MPa at -30 degrees Celsius. In a goaltender's stick having a foam core, the wear strip is inserted in a mold and integrally formed with the core of the stick. The wear strip preferably is manufactured via a RIM process, then the core of the stick is molded with the wear strip and stick shaft in position, and then conventional finishing steps are applied, with fiberglass overlays for example.