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Let's get back on topic, please. If you want to start a thread discussing how stick flexes are measured or whatever the conversation is, please go ahead. Thanks all :)

Of course not. The longer stick will allow the player more leverage, making it easier to bend the stick. It makes sense as a standardize way to describe a property of a specific material. It's similar to how meat is sold in dollars per pound or how some things are sold by the square foot. I agree that there's probably a better way to go about things with the public, but the cynic in me thinks there's other advantages to keeping things the same or at least obscured. They can now make sticks shorter, saving themselves money in the manufacturing process, but still present the facade of the sticks still being the same. And the public generally won't notice. What they will notice is not being able to find sticks with their preferred "bendy-rating." They say the flex rating doesn't change because it's a property of the material. They say the leverage changes as the length changes, and the change in leverage makes a stick easier or harder to bend.

The problem being, and it happens a lot, is that they are trying to be cute and engineery. The only thing that matters to the end user is how much they can actually bend a stick at a given length and how that bend impacts their shot (primarily). People use the word flex. Just because they measure their rating at 1m and claim the flex doesn't change there (a true claim) doesn't really matter, because what we care about is how the stick behaves when the distance between the top hand and the blade on the ice changes- it gets stiffer if you reduce that distance from the original length. Bringing an engineer onto a video is stupid. There is a reason that when I put an engineer in front of a customer there is a very detailed briefing with them before (not a knock on engineers, I used to be one).