Would this pattern...

[Rink Rat 0]

Help with what it's described to help with? How do you toe drag with a square toe...

[TBLfan 25]

practice.

[JR Boucicaut 3810]

No more Gagne huh...

[Rink Rat 0]

practice.

I know that, but just asking if it'll help with what it says it will help with, I mean, blade patterns affect your shot and stick handling somewhat...

No more Gagne huh...

Hahaha, nope

[TBLfan 25]

Will it make you good at toe drags? No.

[mack 44]

Well most don't prefer a square toe if you're going for toe drags.

[calishark28 0]

Well most don't prefer a square toe if you're going for toe drags.

I totally agree, cause i was using a lidstrom curve and changed to a sakic. The sakic was better for my toe drags cause it's rounded

[fieldofdreams 0]

No more Gagne huh...

Gagne is P106 now

[brettlynch11 0]

practice.

We talking 'bout practice?

I feel like if you are a good enough player you can do toe drags and such with any pattern. Key is practicing it.

[TBLfan 25]

It's getting over the comfort issue. I have no problem with toe drags with a recchi pattern, although I prefer the lower half of the end of the blade to be rounded down... but even with a round toe, give me a drury and a toe drag just isnt very comfortable/easy. That's not the pattern's fault.

[K9 Unit 1]

personally i find it easier to toe drag with a true square toe when your rushed into it...like when u do it before u think about it, it seems to work more often xP

[SolarWind 23]

I'm going to refer to Skinner again :)

he's got a very simple picture with a puck on the ice & 2 sticks one with a round toe, and another with a square toe against the puck - the round toe obviously has a bigger spot /area touching the puck (big circle vs small triangle), making it an easy choice for toe drags

so while given enough time & $ pretty much anything can be accomplished a stick with a round toe would make toe drags quite a bit easier

BTW this curve doesn't appear to be that closed to me

[Jarick 5]

It's all about how you play, otherwise we'd have one or two patterns.

Personally, it took weeks for me to adjust from a Weight to a Robitaille to do toe drags, partly because of blade length and partly because there was more curve. So I would dangle the puck out, try to pull it back in, and completely miss it (and look like a moron).

I also can't toe drag worth a crap unless I tape the entire toe of the blade. If it's not taped, the puck slides off if it's not perfectly aligned. But that's just me.

[theWB 2]

In terms of toe shape, I think its easier to pull the puck back with the square toe but more difficult to bring it forward again to a shooting/passing position with a square toe obviously because less blade is on the ice when you have the stick that close to your body.

[JR Boucicaut 3810]

No more Gagne huh...

Gagne is P106 now

Sorry, momentary lapse.

[minwookie 0]

I think the consensus is the ad doesn't know what its talking about. I find the square toe to help with 1 thing, getting pucks cleanly off boards. But that's me.

[K9 Unit 1]

BTW this curve doesn't appear to be that closed to me

i know right? it looks pretty open to me lol...maybe its just the view...try a birds eye view on the blade

[fieldofdreams 0]

The ad truly is just designed to throw keywords out that will apply to what hockey players think they want: toe drags, the ability to dangle through defensemen, etc...

You see those words/terms, and you fall in love with the curve.

Mission accomplished

[Rink Rat 0]

The ad truly is just designed to throw keywords out that will apply to what hockey players think they want: toe drags, the ability to dangle through defensemen, etc...

You see those words/terms, and you fall in love with the curve.

Mission accomplished

Well it almost got me...

I think I'll go with the P14 after reading a topic about it, but does anyone know if it's a true lie 6, and if the P106 has a true lie of 6? I'm asking this because the naslund has a short rocker so it looks like a 7 or something when it's lined up with another blade (I saw it with the P14).