Stick repair

I've tried glues, resins, epoxies and all kinds of tape. Not much will stand up to the hard shots. May be time to just face it that your stick died a hero.

A puck is going to be harsher on the edges than a ball. Expect a shorter life-span for your goalie sticks.

I had a Sher-Wood RM9 stick that I used for a while that wound up chipped all up the paddle, and I just ended up taping it to the nines. It was to the point that the paddle was probably 80% taped up.

I actually was questioned about it in a goalie camp I attended in the summer by Nathan Lawson (goalie for AHL's Hamilton Bulldogs). He suggested in the future to run a strip of tape up each edge, and wax the hell out of those strips to provide a preventive measure for the chipping. I've done this on my new Reebok stick, and so far it seems to have worked great.

Side note, the Sher-Wood stick did eventually break, but it was nowhere near the paddle. Wound up taking a shot off the end of the stick (about a foot below the knob), and then later in the game when I went to slam my stick on the ice to let my team know the PP was ending, it broke right where I'd taken the shot earlier.

I repaired a broken shaft with fiberglass wrapping and epoxy. I'm sure that would work wonders on the edge of a paddle as long as you're willing to take the time to sand it fiberglass the edge then sand it a whole lot more along with repainting the whole stick.

Originally Posted by ArcherBTP

I repaired a broken shaft with fiberglass wrapping and epoxy. I'm sure that would work wonders on the edge of a paddle as long as you're willing to take the time to sand it fiberglass the edge then sand it a whole lot more along with repainting the whole stick.

Yeah, I don't have the skills nor tools to do something like that :)

So most likely I'll shop around for a new stick, and keep it off to the side as backup for when my current stick eventually does decide to break. I'm not using my ball hockey stick because it's been lucky for me and I don't want it to face the same abuse on the ice :)

Its pretty easy. If you know someone with a table mounted vice and an orbital sander you're good to go. You can get the fiber glass wrapping at most hardware stores along with the epoxy. It just takes a few days to let it all set up before you do the final sanding and painting. I'll dig that stick out and post some pics of mine.