The days of using a short stick are over. With the new composite sticks, longer sticks are the norm. It allows for more leverage against the ice, resulting in flex which aids in propulsion of the puck. These days your stick will come up to somewhere between your chin and your eyebrows.
These guys are the clowns with saws. One needs to be Sidney Crosby in order to pull proper snapshot with a stick with length "just below the chin" (let alone the stick "at the collar bone"). And even Sid moved with the time from the short sticks to some more longer twigs (not much, may be an inch, but nevertheless).
The days of using a short stick are over. With the new composite sticks, longer sticks are the norm. It allows for more leverage against the ice, resulting in flex which aids in propulsion of the puck. These days your stick will come up to somewhere between your chin and your eyebrows.
These guys are the clowns with saws.
One needs to be Sidney Crosby in order to pull proper snapshot with a stick with length "just below the chin" (let alone the stick "at the collar bone").
And even Sid moved with the time from the short sticks to some more longer twigs (not much, may be an inch, but nevertheless).