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[skyscrape 5]

Agreed. $129 is a great price for a higher-end stick.

Do you think that this might just be a repaint on the pro sticks(nhl guys using sticks painted to look like 7k's) to steal some of the price point share from other companies?

[$m0k3 0]

Do you think that this might just be a repaint on the pro sticks to steal some of the price point share from other companies?

Yeah that would make sense, at the same time not making some of their higher end sticks look cheap or effect their price points.

[G0NUCKSG0 0]

Do you think that this might just be a repaint on the pro sticks to steal some of the price point share from other companies?

Uh, no.

[skyscrape 5]

Uh, no.

Care to elaborate? Why not?

[skyscrape 5]

So a day late, but watching last nights Sharks game, I noticed Marleau who has been a die hard two piece stick guy has switched to the AK 27 OPS. No pic and not that big a deal, but a long time hold out may have converted! Either that or he is mentally !@#$ed about 7 games without a goal!

[DarkStar50 679]

Marleau scored #42 on a backhander against Luongo Saturday night. I have no idea what stick he was using in that game.

[B19Kress 0]

Yes but I believe Michigan was wearing the Vector for a while.

It was discussed earlier in the thread. Yes they did switch to 4500 from Vectors because lots of the guys didn't like them

[G0NUCKSG0 0]

Care to elaborate? Why not?

It's one Reebok's high-end sticks. Might want to clarify with JR, but a higher-end stick wouldn't be generally a repaint of a pro-stock.

Marleau scored #42 on a backhander against Luongo Saturday night. I have no idea what stick he was using in that game.

AK27 OPS. Who knows what's under the paint.

[bostonjuniorblackhawks 1]

It's one Reebok's high-end sticks. Might want to clarify with JR, but a higher-end stick wouldn't be generally a repaint of a pro-stock.

I don't think any company would take prostock sticks, repaint them, and release them into the retail market.

Of course I could be completely wrong lol

[lampliter87 8]

Think about it... all the assorted curves/flexes/grips. Reebok offers 6 curves at retail and 3 or 4 flexes? No way could you disguise pro stocks as retail.

Point being the specs would be too varied to try to lump different sticks as a "Datsyuk" retail curve.

[Allsmokenopancake 0]

Think about it... all the assorted curves/flexes/grips. Reebok offers 6 curves at retail and 3 or 4 flexes? No way could you disguise pro stocks as retail.

Why not, you want people buying your product, the product available to them is the retail product for the most part. You want to gussy up your pro-stock sticks to look like retail so people can think they are buying what the pros use.

Not every player is a gear whore or on MSH, so they see someone like Ovechkin using the U+ reloaded, they like Ovechkin and need a new stick, they simply get the U+ reloaded Ovie curve, or whatever the stick their player seems to be using.

I think it's a no brainer for companies to disguise pro-stock sticks as retail

[lampliter87 8]

For a big name like Oveckin, sure. But for smaller name players I don't think that would be the case. I don't think that marketing strategy would move 4th liner's sticks. I don't see a kid going to Mommy "Oh boy do I really want the stick Adam Mair uses!", leaving you with sticks that don't sell. And then there's the question of availability, you're not going to have a couple thousand Ovie prostocks to sell. Demand would be there, but the sticks wouldn't. And if you're going to make extra prostocks to sell at retail, why not just make it a retail curve?

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

It's one Reebok's high-end sticks. Might want to clarify with JR, but a higher-end stick wouldn't be generally a repaint of a pro-stock.

AK27 OPS. Who knows what's under the paint.

A shaft and a wood blade, that's what.

[furlanitalia 1]

For a big name like Oveckin, sure. But for smaller name players I don't think that would be the case. I don't think that marketing strategy would move 4th liner's sticks. I don't see a kid going to Mommy "Oh boy do I really want the stick Adam Mair uses!", leaving you with sticks that don't sell. And then there's the question of availability, you're not going to have a couple thousand Ovie prostocks to sell. Demand would be there, but the sticks wouldn't. And if you're going to make extra prostocks to sell at retail, why not just make it a retail curve?

Not to mention the simple morals behind it of selling one product when the customer is really getting something different. Think of the outrage the average consumer would have if the paint chipped away. I also don't think they have any trouble moving prostocks. Lots of hockey shops buy them up and move them at around that 100-150 range where customers will buy one instead of an SE6 or One55 simply because it was high end once.

[MrWizard 0]

Why not, you want people buying your product, the product available to them is the retail product for the most part. You want to gussy up your pro-stock sticks to look like retail so people can think they are buying what the pros use.

Not every player is a gear whore or on MSH, so they see someone like Ovechkin using the U+ reloaded, they like Ovechkin and need a new stick, they simply get the U+ reloaded Ovie curve, or whatever the stick their player seems to be using.

I think it's a no brainer for companies to disguise pro-stock sticks as retail

You're on the right track, but a little bit off. Unless you guys are arguing the same point.

They alreadly disguise pro stock sticks as retail, but they do so for the NHLers in an effort to sell the sticks at retail. It's one thing to disguise pro stock sticks for NHLers to use in an effort to sell more product, it's a completely different (and more unethical) practice to do that same thing to retail sticks.

[skyscrape 5]

You're on the right track, but a little bit off. Unless you guys are arguing the same point.

They alreadly disguise pro stock sticks as retail, but they do so for the NHLers in an effort to sell the sticks at retail. It's one thing to disguise pro stock sticks for NHLers to use in an effort to sell more product, it's a completely different (and more unethical) practice to do that same thing to retail sticks.

This was my point. That the guys at the NHL level are using sticks painted to look like the new 7k so that it will improve sales of the retail 7k to help take up share of that price point! Like 10k's painted to look like 7 k's at the NHL level that way evertone else will say "Oh wow I can not wait to try the 7k if it is working for NHL Player A!"

Marleau scored #42 on a backhander against Luongo Saturday night. I have no idea what stick he was using in that game.

This was the game I was watching where I noticed what appeared to be a AK27 OPS.

[MrWizard 0]

This was my point. That the guys at the NHL level are using sticks painted to look like the new 7k so that it will improve sales of the retail 7k to help take up share of that price point! Like 10k's painted to look like 7 k's at the NHL level that way evertone else will say "Oh wow I can not wait to try the 7k if it is working for NHL Player A!"

Yeah, I think that's where you confused furlanitalia and a few others.

He mistook your argument as saying they should re-paint pro sticks and sell those at retail..

[skyscrape 5]

Yeah, I think that's where you confused furlanitalia and a few others.

He mistook your argument as saying they should re-paint pro sticks and sell those at retail..

That makes sense, that is why I asked the poster to elaborate on why it was such a horrible Idea?

It makes sense to me. I do not think I have ever seen a 10 k outside of a pro game, so why not try to take over the price point market by meking it look like guys like datsyuk are using 7k's!

[furlanitalia 1]

Yah, I thought it was a little too crazy for someone to suggest they actually sell something as a stock 7k when it's really something else. I know a lot of easton guys don't use the sticks that it looks like they use, and same with Reebok, but how about Bauer? How many guys actually use X:60's and one95's?

[bostonjuniorblackhawks 1]

Yah, I thought it was a little too crazy for someone to suggest they actually sell something as a stock 7k when it's really something else. I know a lot of easton guys don't use the sticks that it looks like they use, and same with Reebok, but how about Bauer? How many guys actually use X:60's and one95's?

Saw a bunch of one95's dressed as X60's at tsr

[Wolfpack_1986 154]

this whole thing is a confused mess. nobodys talking about the same thing.

[dsjunior1388 81]

Saw a bunch of one95's dressed as X60's at tsr

Seemed like towards the end of last season, a lot of X:60s were available painted as one95's, I saw some from Kessel, and I think one of the Sedins in the old sightings thread.

[dsjunior1388 81]

And...fail

This makes not once but TWICE, this season, that the Blackhawks are prominently featured with something they haven't won since 1961. The intro to NHL 10, and now a mural. Pretty awful attempt at a nose too.

[G0NUCKSG0 0]

And...fail

This makes not once but TWICE, this season, that the Blackhawks are prominently featured with something they haven't won since 1961. The intro to NHL 10, and now a mural. Pretty awful attempt at a nose too.

Just saw it on PHEW. Absolutely hilarious.

[VakarLajos 5]

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