tps tkachuk

[Racer8 0]

This thread is similar to Opus22's about the Sakic/Nash. I need a lie 5 and there is a great sale on xn10s at Great skate.

Currently I use a Modano and have heard that Thachuks are Modano clones, yet the picture on the Great Skate website doesn't look like a Modano clone. My LHS doesn't stock Thachuks so I have no direct comparison to the Modano. How exact/similar is the Modano/Thachuk? For direct comparision I consider the Modano and the Inno Federov to be exactly the same. Pics would be great.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[duckjob 1]

it is very similar, its slightly more heel and slightly less mid.

[KnightII 0]

Putting the two I have together and comparing shows that they pretty much the same curve.

[Eazy_b97 1]

I'd definately put it in the "clone" category. You won't get any closer with another TPS pattern.

[ambro 0]

I can't find any differences from my Tkachuk Xn10 to any of my 4 Fedorov Inno blades. I've never had an actual Easton Modano stick, so I cant say anything about that.

[Racer8 0]

Ambro,

The Easton Modano and the Inno Federov are the same curve at least to me. If you're saying the xn10 Tkachuk and the Inno Federov are the same then you are saying the Tkachuk and the Modano are the same, for all practical purposes.

Thanks guys.

[ambro 0]

Yea. From what I've heard the Modano and Fedorov are clones like you said. But I've never used one, so I couldn't say for sure.

[Racer8 0]

If you're familiar with a Federov then you've played with a Modano.

[Modo9 0]

I've never seen a Fedorov, but from what I've read I thought the LIE was lower than a Tkachuk or Modo.

Keep in mind also, just in case, that the TPS Tkachuk is only a Modo clone on XN10's and sticks made within the last two years. Prior to '03 the TPS Tkachuk was a a dreadful, dreadful 100% flat heel curve. I also think the Easton Modo pattern has a degree more loft than the TPS Tkachuk. But they are so close they are for all intensive purposes a clone to one another.

[golfpuck 0]

doesnt the tkachuk have a slightly closed face? as in negative loft?

great for back hands i guess.

[Kobe 0]

doesnt the tkachuk have a slightly closed face? as in negative loft?

great for back hands i guess.

On the older models yes but the newer models are the modano clones

[Chadd 916]

doesnt the tkachuk have a slightly closed face? as in negative loft?

great for back hands i guess.

On the older models yes but the newer models are the modano clones

2003 model if I remember correctly.

[Modo9 0]

I just checked my records, TPS changed the Tkachuk from the Fugly heel curve to the Modo-Clone in late-late 2003.

[k-ody.m 0]

is a Tkachuk on last years R8 not the new one, still the same, so liek a modano or did they change it since this thread?

[Spreedizzle 1]

The Tkachuk is a carry-over curve from last year.

[k-ody.m 0]

so is it still liek a modo on the last year r8?

[Chadd 916]

so is it still liek a modo on the last year r8?

Yes