How Important Is Lie

[flip12 699]

I want try one of these lie but players like Duncan Keith are using low lie like 4 or high like 6 ?

It might be better to ask, what lie are you using right now, and what length stick? Which lie works for you is more important. There are players who use short sticks and ridiculously low lies, and those who use short sticks and ridiculously high lies, such as Ales Hemsky. If you want to try playing with a shorter stick, it could be helpful to know where your stick length has been and what lie you've been using at that length and how comfortable your play has been with that combination.

[Mattc555 22]

Lie also affects where the blade contacts the ice during a slap shot. I take notice of where my tape is wearing out on the bottom of my blade. I get the most power if I'm contacting the ice around 2 inches from the heel of the blade on slap shots.

[baloo1987 1]

It might be better to ask, what lie are you using right now, and what length stick? Which lie works for you is more important. There are players who use short sticks and ridiculously low lies, and those who use short sticks and ridiculously high lies, such as Ales Hemsky. If you want to try playing with a shorter stick, it could be helpful to know where your stick length has been and what lie you've been using at that length and how comfortable your play has been with that combination.

I have 2 v9e with a E28 curve flex 75. One is cut up to my chin and the other one to my mouth . There's like 2cm difference. I like the e28 because the puck keep stay in the toe but I want to try something completely different to see if it improve my game or not. I started to cut my stick because you need to bend your knees and you gain power and explosive.

[flip12 699]

Cool. When you compare how tall the stick is to your height, are you barefoot or on skates?

I think I know what you mean about the E28--you're talking about the pocket for holding onto the puck right around the mid-toe of the blade? I look for something like that in all of my blades. One first thing you could try, is seeing how it feels to just play with your top hand lower on your stick, just for a stick and puck time, where you won't be bumping into other people, even by accident. You could just take your shorter-cut stick and put the kind of grip you use (tape, tacki-mac, whatever) lower on the shaft, just to get a feel for what the lie of the E28 would play like if you were to cut your stick down. You could get a sense of how it is to stickhandle as well as give and catch passes. It could probably be too awkward to really shoot with, given the extra shaft length. If you try that and pay attention to whether pucks are getting away from you from your lie being too high or too low, that could be an indication of what pattern you may want to go for next. The E28 is already a pretty low lie, which could be good because if you want to have a shorter stick and need a higher lie, there should be plenty of options. If you actually want to go to a lower lie, that could be tricky, but doable. It can be fun to go from a more curved pattern like the E28 to something pretty straight, like the E4, but it can also be massively frustrating...I guess that's why my advice is to just play around with what you have now, before suggesting you go out and buy a new stick right away. Things were a little less complicated for experimenting like this when shafts and blades were in fashion, but it is what it is.

[baloo1987 1]

On my skates.

Yeah well last year at the beginning of the season I cut my stick for 2,5 cm it was already a change but at the end of the season I played with the longest one.

The one who's cut is already a bit soft blade and almost dead so I think I will cut this one more like extrem maybe 5 cm more to try.

I will go to the shop tomorrow and see different lie and curve. I love taking wrist shot but it's like a challenge to play with a straight blade. I used to start with a Getzlaf curve ^^

I'm looking at the warrior Zetterberg curve lie 4

[Vet88 673]

If you are looking at earlier model Warrior sticks, Burrows is also similar to a Zetterberg - 4 lie, closed face. It seems they have dropped the curve since the latest QR and HD range came out, sigh.....

[flip12 699]

The Zetterberg should be around the same lie as the E28. That's where the difference between Warrior and Easton lies become confusing. Easton calls the E28 a 5 and Warrior calls the W28 a 4, but they're clones.