Curve help please

[scoops 1]

Can anyone help me identify this curve or a retail curve that is similar? Also does anyone know what flex Chris Conner of the pens uses?

Thanks for your help!

[ponder 0]

Always hard to tell from just one pic, especially when you can't see the lie/rocker, but my first thought was that it looks similar to a retail Easton Heatley.

[HOPE 0]

lidstrom

[TeamHonda401 54]

Pretty sure it's a Lidstrom or a Jovanovski.

[automorph 0]

blade looks short for liddy.....easton darby or bauer p106?

[Chadd 916]

Looks Darby-ish to me.

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Thanks for the response guys! Here's another pic

[s_franchise 5]

darby for sure

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I have an old Lidstrom (that I hated) sitting in front of me, and the Lidstrom is quite a bit more of a heel wedge than this one, this curve seems like more of a mid-heel, as I said it looked like an Easton Heatley from the top, but maybe a bit more open (I always find it hard to tell how open a blade is from these angles though). Definitely too rockered on the bottom for a Heatley though, never seen a Darby curve before, is it basically a more open, more rockered Heatley? If Chadd says it's a Darby, it probably is.

[innotastic 12]

+1 for darby. lie might be different, i remember the darby being lower. hard to tell from the pics.

[Stoop 1]

Mind if I ask about another one? Looking for the closest retail curve (though I'm not that concerned about the toe shape).

It is on the right in the last pic, next to a P88.

[s_franchise 5]

Maybe a P91a?

[ponder 0]

Yeah, looks pretty Drury-ish, maybe with a slightly shorter blade and slightly less rockered toe.

[sharks25 9]

Drury or vanek like. I think the Drury has more of a wedge to it.

[steelnation248 102]

Yeah, I would agree with all the Drury-esque suggestions. I would say the Reebok P36A might be a good one to check out. I've always thought it had a little more "mid" curve to it than the other heel wedge retail patterns. I'm not a heel curve guy though, so I can't say for sure. It's just how it has always looked to me.

[Stoop 1]

Yeah, I would agree with all the Drury-esque suggestions. I would say the Reebok P36A might be a good one to check out. I've always thought it had a little more "mid" curve to it than the other heel wedge retail patterns. I'm not a heel curve guy though, so I can't say for sure. It's just how it has always looked to me.

Thanks guys. "Wedge" here, and in Bauer's description, just means very open, correct? To distinguish from less open heel curves like P106?

[innotastic 12]

wedge is like flat and angled up, rather than having a "curve". as far as i know every curved described as a wedge has been very open, but i don't believe being a wedge itself defines it as very open.

that curve looks a lot like reebok's h15. although there's no retail equivalent, its a fairly common pro stock curve. its closest to the drury and p36a.

[interpathway 9]

IMO wedge means you can see the entire face (front) of the blade from stickhandling position, from heel to toe. Because of this definition, Sakic style curves are not wedges since they only open throughout the toe. Unless the curve and wedge begins at the heel, they're not wedges by my count.

[Chadd 916]

generally, we use it when a blade opens at a relatively consistent rate and not one that is neutral up to a certain point and then opens up suddenly.

[Stoop 1]

Makes sense, thanks guys. I was in a store checking out the P91A versus the P106, and I swear I couldn't tell them apart. Anyway, I ended up getting a Harrow #3 pattern. We'll see how it compares. That Reebok P36A looks interesting though.