warrior stick

[#96 0]

Are Holmes and Co. RandD guys or Marketing guys?

[aamir212 0]

Holmes Ghassemi was the the director of marketing and development.

[Jim A 4]

Business manager (was global manager of sticks/blades before that) @ Easton..

Director of Marketing @ Warrior (semantics after the legal battle perhaps?)

[JGraz15 53]

Is Bauer going to make their own shafts? Can we expect the same quality in the XV and X shafts?

[Cage 0]

I stoped by Hockeytown Authentics in Troy, MI today. There were 2 Warrior Pro sticks available. I know one was Shanahan. I can't remember who the other belonged to. I'm thinking it may have been Holmstrom.

I didn't pay much attention to them, I was checking out a Lidstrom Synergy. Figured I'd drop the info for anyone else in the area that may want to go scope the stick out.

[logan 0]

Warrior has been on the market for a bit now but they recently got bought out by New Balance, yes New Balance. And guess who New Balance also bought out? Innovative hockey.  So New Balance owns Innovative and Warrior hockey, the sticks you see in the NHL these days are just Innovative one-pieces with Warrior graphics.  Innovative also manufactures most one-pieces for other leading hockey companies, they produce more than half of the one pieces on the market.

Yup, just got around to reading that article in the Hockey Business News.

Shanny is sporting the Warriors too, according to their photo.

[#96 0]

So if Holmes and Co are marketing and business manager dudes, then how are they gonna effect that actual development of new stick technology? Wouldn't it have been better to get the scientists and engineers, and not the pencil pushers?

If they are just marketing gurus, I could totally see Warrior simply using Inno technology and just slapping Warrior graphics on the stuff. Where the Easton, ehem, Holmes and Co guys will help is getting brand recognition.

[Jim A 4]

when you're Global Product Mgr of sticks and blades for Easton..you're not a pencil pusher..Holmes in the man..he's always had great ideas and foresight..and he's spent so much time in TJ I hear he's an honorary citizen...

[twistoffate19 0]

I stoped by Hockeytown Authentics in Troy, MI today. There were 2 Warrior Pro sticks available. I know one was Shanahan. I can't remember who the other belonged to. I'm thinking it may have been Holmstrom.

I didn't pay much attention to them, I was checking out a Lidstrom Synergy. Figured I'd drop the info for anyone else in the area that may want to go scope the stick out.

What does Shanny's pro curve look like, and what flex does he use?

[#96 0]

So then they do some RandD as well.

What's "TJ"?

[Jason Allison 0]

What's "TJ"?

Tijuana Mexico

[Chadd 916]

I stoped by Hockeytown Authentics in Troy, MI today.  There were 2 Warrior Pro sticks available.  I know one was Shanahan.  I can't remember who the other belonged to.  I'm thinking it may have been Holmstrom.

I didn't pay much attention to them, I was checking out a Lidstrom Synergy.  Figured I'd drop the info for anyone else in the area that may want to go scope the stick out.

What does Shanny's pro curve look like, and what flex does he use?

His wood blades were a small mid curve, slightly open.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

when you're Global Product Mgr of sticks and blades for Easton..you're not a pencil pusher..Holmes in the man..he's always had great ideas and foresight..and he's spent so much time in TJ I hear he's an honorary citizen...

Might be spending time somewhere else...LOL...

But nah, the attitude that is coming from them is that they made Easton what it is...we'll see what happens

[Chris_H 0]

Innovative is now Warrior according to their rep.

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

We know, we know...massive threads on it all...nothing new! :)

[Chadd 916]

It has only been what, 6 months now?

[littletipsy 0]

my friend got one of the sticks from doug weight and he jsut remembered that he is right handed, and doug is left

now its a collectors item

[EBondo 233]

So I was scanning through the Flyers photo galleries today and Gary roberts was using a Warrior stick, lime green, with an M in the middle.

Mack Daddy?

http://img434.imageshack.us/img434/7870/143398wi.jpg

[nspeen 0]

ewww that is gross looking :(

[EBondo 233]

ewww that is gross looking :(

Agreed...worse than the ST Grip, which actually I have come to like the color of since I got a shaft last night.

[JGraz15 53]

What is the red one I saw Kovalchuk use a few times?

[warrior37 0]

i believe the starskie

[Chadd 916]

What is the red one I saw Kovalchuk use a few times?

Red paint job is the "Starskie" or however they decide to spell it as mentioned in the other two topics.

[JGraz15 53]

What is the red one I saw Kovalchuk use a few times?

Red paint job is the "Starskie" or however they decide to spell it as mentioned in the other two topics.

Where does that fit in with the Dolomite and Mack Daddy? I assume they are all top end

[Chadd 916]

I recall hearing that the red is low end