2026-27 Gear Sightings

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Stenberg's Sherwood gloves look surprisingly good, better than the Morph Pro.

[Westside 279]

Backhand breaks remind me of the Bauer Machs

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2 hours ago, Westside said:

Backhand breaks remind me of the Bauer Machs

Me too, that blended with QRL toward the bottom. Machs were the last retail glove I found appealing.

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On 7/2/2026 at 2:25 AM, flip12 said:

Me too, that blended with QRL toward the bottom. Machs were the last retail glove I found appealing.

Mach were so bad though with that useless flex cuff. Fuse are a nice update if you can get past the look of the thumb.

On 7/1/2026 at 2:51 PM, flip12 said:

Stenberg's Sherwood gloves look surprisingly good, better than the Morph Pro.

Weird thing is these look like the same break pattern as the Morph Pro? But the added pieces between the breaks and the fingers look great. Morph was terrible on the cuff though so I hope Sherwood has figured it out for this gen since they have been really solid before.

[Westside 279]

New PSHS Onyx stick coming? Hybrid like the VF, but different? Also strange the post doesn’t have PSHS tagged? 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaV-VoAzBLe/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

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19 hours ago, Westside said:

New PSHS Onyx stick coming? Hybrid like the VF, but different? Also strange the post doesn’t have PSHS tagged? 
 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DaV-VoAzBLe/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

But it does have a huge advertisement for Pro Stock Hockey in middle of it (let’s not even get into the concept of ads inside of ads). I’m hoping that is just product placement and not PSHS being bought out by PSH. 

I wish PSHS would just change their name while they are still small enough to do it. It’s confusing and clunky. If this new stick does well they probably have too much momentum to change the company name. 

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25 minutes ago, start_today said:

But it does have a huge advertisement for Pro Stock Hockey in middle of it (let’s not even get into the concept of ads inside of ads). I’m hoping that is just product placement and not PSHS being bought out by PSH. 

I wish PSHS would just change their name while they are still small enough to do it. It’s confusing and clunky. If this new stick does well they probably have too much momentum to change the company name. 

Agreed. I thought Geppetto was going to change it to ‘Pro Reserve’ when they relaunched the other year. Feels like a missed opportunity. PSHS has always been too clunky with PSH and is even worse with the increased popularity of pro stock sticks in general. I have to imagine his SEO is terrible since the current brand name is basically a generic search term 

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On 7/3/2026 at 5:30 PM, Hills said:

 

Mach were so bad though with that useless flex cuff. Fuse are a nice update if you can get past the look of the thumb.

Weird thing is these look like the same break pattern as the Morph Pro? But the added pieces between the breaks and the fingers look great. Morph was terrible on the cuff though so I hope Sherwood has figured it out for this gen since they have been really solid before.

I think you're right. It look like that to me as well anyway. Let's hope they release these in different color ways. A Kings set would be perfect to replace my Kovalchuk return QRLs.

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On 7/4/2026 at 11:59 AM, Westside said:

Agreed. I thought Geppetto was going to change it to ‘Pro Reserve’ when they relaunched the other year. Feels like a missed opportunity. PSHS has always been too clunky with PSH and is even worse with the increased popularity of pro stock sticks in general. I have to imagine his SEO is terrible since the current brand name is basically a generic search term 

Pro stock sticks have been popular for over 20 years 

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On 7/4/2026 at 11:31 AM, start_today said:

But it does have a huge advertisement for Pro Stock Hockey in middle of it (let’s not even get into the concept of ads inside of ads). I’m hoping that is just product placement and not PSHS being bought out by PSH. 

I wish PSHS would just change their name while they are still small enough to do it. It’s confusing and clunky. If this new stick does well they probably have too much momentum to change the company name. 

I personally don’t find pshs confusing.  Not sure about over people.  

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1 hour ago, iceman8310 said:

Pro stock sticks have been popular for over 20 years 

But now they’re EVERYWHERE. Every retailer seems to offer new or used pro stock sticks and the term is definitely more mainstream than it was 10+ years ago. Then there’s my SEO comment about how generic ‘pro stock hockey sticks’ is if you simply typed it in google. Results inevitably return every single manufacturer’s pro stock sticks out there. If you’re a business and you’re trying to maximize online marketing spend, you would want better name recognition for your product so it doesn’t populate competitive results