Broken Synergy

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I just got back from my first preseason game where I snapped my Synergy completly in half and was wondering what the white liner is? It's a junior Yzerman...I knew it would happen and it was just a matter of time. I used the stick for 3 years. I'm thinking of something to do with the 2.5 foot end. I'm tihnking of either cleaning it up and using it as a mini-stick or using it as a putter for oglf since my putting has been less than stellar as of late. Now what do I buy next? I've got an Apollo and an XX that I don't like for other reasons and I'm not sure, i'm ready for an intermediate stick now I think <_<

[joshy207 15]

I just got back from my first preseason game where I snapped my Synergy completly in half and was wondering what the white liner is? It's a junior Yzerman...

White liner? You mean on the inside of the shaft? In a junior stick, I'm pretty sure it's fiberglass, which would be more flexible than graphite.

[Chadd 916]

I just got back from my first preseason game where I snapped my Synergy completly in half and was wondering what the white liner is? It's a junior Yzerman...

White liner? You mean on the inside of the shaft? In a junior stick, I'm pretty sure it's fiberglass, which would be more flexible than graphite.

but that would mean they're charging a high end price for a mid-line product. Surely people would notice it's not what they claim it is.

[joshy207 15]

I just got back from my first preseason game where I snapped my Synergy completly in half and was wondering what the white liner is? It's a junior Yzerman...

White liner? You mean on the inside of the shaft? In a junior stick, I'm pretty sure it's fiberglass, which would be more flexible than graphite.

but that would mean they're charging a high end price for a mid-line product. Surely people would notice it's not what they claim it is.

It's a junior stick though, they have to make it flexible enough for younger kids to use. And kudos to the manufacturers for suckering the public into buying $130 composite sticks for their 9-year-old kids anyway. Every kid, squirt/atom and below, should be using either a wood stick or a shaft and wood blade.

[Eazy_b97 1]

Just curious as to why you think they should? I think its a waste of money for the parents, but if they have the money to spend and it the kid can flex the stick well enough and make enough of a mental difference for him to shoot well I do not see a big problem in it. Is it a mid-level product being sold for top cash? Yes, but isn't the Vector basically the same thing in a senior version?

[Chadd 916]

Just curious as to why you think they should? I think its a waste of money for the parents, but if they have the money to spend and it the kid can flex the stick well enough and make enough of a mental difference for him to shoot well I do not see a big problem in it. Is it a mid-level product being sold for top cash? Yes, but isn't the Vector basically the same thing in a senior version?

Pros admit it's harder to feel the puck with a composite blade, why add an extra layer of difficulty on a kid who is just learning the game? As for the Vector, if you keep telling people it's a top end product they believe you.

[Eazy_b97 1]

Why not have the kids grow up with what they will eventually be using though? I mean most of the players who are buying them at that age will buy them all the way up. This way they get used to the composite blades from almost day 1.

[Jbone 0]

Its the same inside as a junior Z-Bubble.

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And that would be what? Graphite?

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

And that would be what? Graphite?

Fibreglass...

  Why not have the kids grow up with what they will eventually be using though? I mean most of the players who are buying them at that age will buy them all the way up. This way they get used to the composite blades from almost day 1.

Because it's too much stick for them?

[Kovy_Ribs_Fedo 3]

Pros admit it's harder to feel the puck with a composite blade

Why do they play with composite and not wood?

[Chadd 916]

Pros admit it's harder to feel the puck with a composite blade

Why do they play with composite and not wood?

Because they don't want to miss out on whatever advantage anyone else is getting.

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I was talking to Dan_the_man_16 earlier today and said that if it were fibreglass then that's false advertising and I could sue them? I was 10 when I got the stick by the way; I've also reffed 8-9 year olds who have cut down v120's and very tiny XX's so the little kid thing is popular around here.

[Fire0nIce228 1]

The world is too sue happy. You could file a law suite for just about anything these days. Cut it down and make a mini stick out of it for floor hockey, enjoy life.

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World is to happy to sue? That's why some American woman sued McDonalds because she burned her tongue on the coffee even though it said Cautino Hot on the cup?

[JR Boucicaut 3804]

I was talking to Dan_the_man_16 earlier today and said that if it were fibreglass then that's false advertising and I could sue them? I was 10 when I got the stick by the way; I've also reffed 8-9 year olds who have cut down v120's and very tiny XX's so the little kid thing is popular around here.

Um...look up composite.

Fibreglass is a composite...

[Dan_The_Man_16 0]

I wasen't saying that it wasen't. The Jr. sticks clearly say graphite. Anyways the point I was trying to make to dangle3 was that I found it kind of cheesy a company would do that.

[Fire0nIce228 1]

by sue happy i meant everyone is always sueing everyone else. I still say make a bad ass mini stick out of it, :D

[Hockeyman9621 0]

World is to happy to sue? That's why some American woman sued McDonalds because she burned her tongue on the coffee even though it said Cautino Hot on the cup?

LOL, he said the world is to sue happy, not to happy to sue....

[joshy207 15]

I wasen't saying that it wasen't. The Jr. sticks clearly say graphite. Anyways the point I was trying to make to dangle3 was that I found it kind of cheesy a company would do that.

There is graphite in a Jr. Z-Bubble and Jr. Synergy, but there's fiberglass too. The fiberglass is on the inside and reduces stiffness.

[clarkstowncaps15 0]

ya,if u break it in the middle u can see the fiberglass

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I took part of the stick into my woodworks shop at school today and the teacher said it was fibreglass, he thought it might've been some Kevlar but I steered him away from that.