2015-16 Gear Sightings

[sbecks72986 51]

What is the Vapor stick Kuznetsov is using?

[vaporboy12 0]

9 hours ago, sbecks72986 said:

What is the Vapor stick Kuznetsov is using?

New 1x stick for 16

[JR Boucicaut 3759]

No - it's not the new 1X.

The new 1X graphic package is different.  Bauer is down by the bottom and Vapor is on the handle.

[tpedersen3118 58]

19 hours ago, mnpucker said:

My Son held the stick, confirmed it feels very different than anything else. The shaft shape has no corners on one side. felt good in the hand, fit the hand nicely. 

 

Kind of reminds me of the Bauer titanium shaft I had back in 99''-2000. They made a left and right hand version and if I remember correctly the side of the shaft that was in your palm (insert joke here) was convex and the side that you wrapped your fingers around was concave. I'm really interested to try one out, I just hope it's not a real glossy stick like the current RX, too much reflection off the top or the blade. I really like my Surgeon 500 though.

[malcb33 95]

Sounds like the old Bauer DET. I think that is what is was called..... Concave and convex shaft shapes, but this is square and convex? (]

[JR Boucicaut 3759]

It's not convex. 

Think hexagonal...like a lacrosse shaft.

It's on the bottom side - where your fingers go.

Really neat concept. 

[chippa13 1844]

Sounds like a modified version of the old Trilage attempt. Just a matter of time before a lacrosse company put some lacrosse feel into the stick shaft. I'm surprised that Warrior hasn't explored something along these lines. Or maybe they have and it didn't test well for them?

[Buzz_LightBeer 962]

2 hours ago, JR Boucicaut said:

It's not convex. 

Think hexagonal...like a lacrosse shaft.

It's on the bottom side - where your fingers go.

Really neat concept. 

Check the tarp by the guy stickhandling for reference

[tpedersen3118 58]

4 hours ago, Buzz_LightBeer said:

Check the tarp by the guy stickhandling for reference

Thanks for posting this. Really is an innovation. With such a different design I will b interested to see how this works from a flex and kick standpoint. Also wondering how the shaft tapers, to more of a traditional stick as it gets closer to the blade or if it maintains the shape to the hosel. Lastly, release date?

[JR Boucicaut 3759]

Becomes traditional towards the lower middle of the stick, so this is strictly where hand placement would be for stickhandling/shooting. 

[decoy 164]

Not a fan of yellow?

[Monty22 821]

1 hour ago, decoy said:

Not a fan of yellow?

.

He did that with his Total Ones IIRC. 

[decoy 164]

5 minutes ago, Monty22 said:

He did that with his Total Ones IIRC. 

Yes he did and his previous pair was blacked out.

[tpedersen3118 58]

7 hours ago, JR Boucicaut said:

Becomes traditional towards the lower middle of the stick, so this is strictly where hand placement would be for stickhandling/shooting. 

Thanks, JR

[adam14 182]

Reminiscent and reworked around the ccm octo-gun stick. They did something similar with octagonal shape however it was to reduce torque in the taper, not in your hands directly.

[sectachrome 40]

STX is doing some cool stuff with the Surgeon line. Definitely interested to check that new stick out.

[noodle3872 40]

9 hours ago, decoy said:

Not a fan of yellow?

Who and what exactly are not fans of yellow?

[flip12 699]

Dustin Brown, has the yellow stricken from his new Tacks.

[Neo5370 132]

On 3/9/2016 at 6:15 PM, Buzz_LightBeer said:

Check the tarp by the guy stickhandling for reference

 

 

So it's basically an upside Titan ASD shaft.

[the_game 452]

7 hours ago, Neo5370 said:

 

 

So it's basically an upside Titan ASD shaft.

Ha, that's too funny. Also sad I'm old enough to get the reference.

[60PlusWinger 82]

On March 9, 2016 at 9:38 AM, JR Boucicaut said:

No - it's not the new 1X.

The new 1X graphic package is different.  Bauer is down by the bottom and Vapor is on the handle.

 

I don't know if the stick is actually different at all besides graphics but it didn't feel different than the current. I actually had one in hand and used it for a little while. I skated with the guys that shot the Toews water bottle video and Bauer let them keep all of the sticks they used to shoot the videos with and it was a new 1x 87 flex Ovechkin. 

[JR Boucicaut 3759]

The stick is different.  It's a lighter package, and different manufacturing process. 

 

But it the original question was the stick in the picture. It's not the new 1x, at least graphically. 

[sbecks72986 51]

 

3 hours ago, JR Boucicaut said:

The stick is different.  It's a lighter package, and different manufacturing process. 

 

But it the original question was the stick in the picture. It's not the new 1x, at least graphically. 

 

So to be clear its not the next Vapor stick its just a 1X with new graphics that is lighter than the regular 1X and 1XLE?

[JR Boucicaut 3759]

That would make it a new stick.  

 

It's not the same as the original 1X. But will be called 1X. 

[Utterkaos94 11]

Does anybody have a picture of the new stick?