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Well, it's true. Both the C28 and C29 codes are known to mean that the stick is a One95 despite whatever graphics. Also just goes to show you that a major manufacturer could simply change the appearance of a stick and many would not know the difference.
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In that case, it's a repainted One95 and not a real TotalOne.
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Clean, an in sharp, simple, uncluttered design or layout in this instance. That's not PHEW talk. That's language.
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243 flex? What the hell does that equate to?
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Never saw Hull using the Stealths. Was it just something he didn't like or what?
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They are a high-end shaft, or at least were at the time. Basically an UltraLite with a very thin and extremely rounded shape. Easton could never decide how to market/sell them most effectively. They came in 70 and 95 flexes (which felt like 90 and 105 flexes honestly) and were sold as senior shafts. Later, Easton kept the 95 as a senior, but began referring to their 70 as an intermediate despite the fact that they didn't change a thing and it was the same size. Compression-molded graphite covered with kevlar, just like the standard Easton recipe of the day. Marked as 270 grams, although that's about 20-30 grams too light, even without the wood plug. Amazing shafts though.
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What do you have on the way Krev?
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Got a brand new 2nd gen green Z-Bubble in the mail and thought I'd take a pic of my family of Easton shafts (some converted OPS, some broken) before a couple of them headed out the door to fellow MSH members. Nowhere near some peoples' here, but I've had several Eastons stolen or broken/thrown away as well. :( Top to bottom: Cyclone Aluminum 85 (used) Cyclone Graphite 95 (new) Cyclone Graphite 95 (used) Cyclone graphite 95 (broken) A/G 6000 (new) T-Flex Graphite 95 (broken Modano custom) T-Flex Graphite 85 (used) Z-Bubble 100 (new) Z-Bubble 100 (used) Z-Bubble 100 (broken) Synergy 85 (broken) S17 85 (broken) LOVE my Eastons, but this just came in the mail today as well...
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I would assume, seeing as his T-Flex Aluminums went from blue to green Z-Bubbles, then to green T-Flexes. Additionally, it would lend to the fact that most of those shafts look to be aluminums or partially aluminum.
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Drew, where'd you get those? Some people have been trying to track down some of those shafts for the better part of a decade.
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My dad still has his old pair that looks pretty much, if not exactly, like those. He let me use them back in high school one time before I knew much about ice hockey and I forgot to wipe off the blades after I skated in them.
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JaySakic, those Eastons look great. Where'd you get them?
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Oh WTF. I looked for Z-Bubbles like that for ages. What flex are those?
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Yep, for a while Easton was printing both the name and flex on the shafts. I have a broken Easton T-flex in the basement that happens to say "Modano Custom 95". Same used to go for Sakic, Yzerman, and a couple others.
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I wish all the major companies didn't have to attempt to be such marketing machines. Easton makes some really solid stuff when they're not worrying about being the latest innovator or marketing some goofy new "technology".
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Exactly. Granted I haven't used any Easton OPS in years and years, but their shafts have felt like absolute crap for the past 3-4 years. I'd absolutely kill for an original silver Synergy in 85 flex with the Modano pattern.
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:D That ugly old thing? We got them in at our hockey shop that I used to manage and I used to wonder how well they'd work compared to the Z-Carbons I always used. They looked very solid, very well put together, etc. And back then, they felt fairly light. Now it feels like a damn brick. Puck feel was decent, but nothing special. The graphics came off quite easily, but the blade held together over the years. I haven't used it in ages.
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Those are even better. Only ones I've ever seen of those were pro stocks. The Total Hockey here had a couple Hejduks and some Kovalevs last year. I'll throw this in here too. This pretty little lady just showed up today. Some of you may recognize the curve as well. It's in great shape, but I only wish it weren't a lefty, otherwise I'd give this blade a shot. Oh well, it's becoming a shaft. Brand new Si-Core Z-Carbon Modano blade will be here tomorrow or so.
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Mack, please tell me that's not an original Z-Carbon blade I see in that. If it is, I may have to come steal it as I've been searching for those FOREVER. Oh, and I'll add to your little A/G pic there. IMO, one of the sexier-looking shafts of all time, along with the MM Z-Bubble:
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Those are much tougher to find. Only seen them on game-used stick sites and such. Closest I've come was the maroon T-Flex with school bus yellow graphics that Krev sold to me recently. Same design I believe, it was just when they'd changed to yellow from gray.
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This one's an 85 too. :) Just bought it because all of my boyhood hockey idols used it and I've ALWAYS wanted one. Yzerman, Sakic, and my all time favorite Modano. Part of me wants to use it, but another part of me wants to buy TBL's graphite T-Flex Drury blade, stick it in the shaft, and hang it on the wall downstairs. On a side note, just rounded up all my shafts and sticks (broken or intact) and compiled them on the floor in the basement bedroom. GF's going to crap a brick when she sees it all. The T-Flexes were the same length as other standard shafts around that time. The only difference was that the tapered blades were also the same length as standard blades and not shortened like they are now (hence the reason the tapered shafts are longer to compensate).
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Just showed up at my door. The one shaft I've always wanted:
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Had to go by Total Hockey today to buy some stuff and felt the S19 shaft there again. Definitely a more rounded shape than the S15 shafts were. It's pretty much on par with the X:60 and Vapor XXXX shafts. Feels great, but it also feels weighty. Both the ST shaft and S15/S19 shaft have been absolute logs since Easton switched from the Z-Bubble and Ultra Lite shafts. :(
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That's what I thought as well. I know Hockeyus.com uses a gram scale on theirs and even typically shows pics of the stick on the gram scale so you can read what it says, but they don't have a review of it. Both sites below show that weight: http://www.inlinewarehouse.com/Easton_Stea...page-ES19S.html http://totalhockey.net/Product.aspx?itm_id...3&div_id=41 Down under "features", they list it at 362 grams. I don't know if that was directly weighed and listed or not. I know it used to be typical for retailers to simply regurgitate what Easton or other companies quoted the weights at (or what it claimed on the sticks), but once people started weighing them, they found those numbers to be off. Could it be that all those years the Z-Bubble was supposedly at 275 grams, it was really this heavy? Or is 362 grams wrong? Also, Easton's site shows the S15 shaft using that "liquid silicone molding" process, which is supposedly based on compression molding, as the construction. Despite the fact that the S19 is merely supposed to be the old S15 with new paint, Easton no longer shows this information for the S19. They now say that it is graphite/kevlar compression molded again like they used to. Sites also say that this stick features the TORX Elliptical Profile (despite being a shaft) and as I stated before, I did think that the S19 shaft I felt had a rather Easton Cyclone-ish roundness to its corners.
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Felt the S19 shape the other day and it was weird. SHAPE: quite rounded, honestly. Not sure if they're shooting for the whole "S19=elliptical" thing or what, but it was nearing X60 feel with very rounded corners. I loved it, but others may not. FEEL/WEIGHT/MATERIALS: As we all know, the OLD Z-Bubbles were graphite and kevlar. When Easton switched to the S15, they changed materials to some sort of liquid silicone process that I was never able to determine what it actually was. However, it was noticeable because many stated how the shafts felt "heavy and cheap". I agreed. The new S19 shaft is much more like the S15 (crappy) than the old Z-bubbles. Not sure what they did to this shaft material-wise, but it sucks. The old Z's were advertised between 275-285 grams, depending on the year. Easton always passed this info on to retailers, who spouted it as truth. As many people weigh OPS, they know the numbers are not always even close. The S15 shafts were still being advertised at 275 grams, which I think most would say was far too light for how they actually felt. Sites are now reporting true shaft/OPS weights more and the S19 shaft is showing up in the 360 gram neighborhood.
