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Torpedo Bat Inventor Working On, and Testing New Wooden Hockeystick Design. |
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The 2025 New New York Yankees have taken Major League Baseball by storm….not just with their power hitting, but with what’s in their hands. Their new bats, called Torpedo Bats, are controversial but have been deemed legal and are going to revolutionize the game.
Are they that much better? Well, The Yanks have hot 15 home runs in the first three games of the season. So the answer is…..yeh they are better….The bats are spreading around the league like a tornado….
Aaron Leanhardt, the new bat’s designer and inventor, graduated from MIT in Boston and, of course, as everyone in Boston…..he is a hockey fan.
Hockey Sticks?
Now, whispers from inside the NHL are centered around, “How can we use this technology, and can it be transferred to hockey sticks?”
The first thing I know you’re thinking is these new bats are wooden… The NHL stop cutting down trees, a long time ago and the lighter-weight carbon fiber and resin have made NHL sticks lighter and more efficient over the years….
However, they do break a lot. And they are extremely expensive.
We’ve actually seen a couple of instances this year where it’s costed a team a game when a stick was broken just trying to take a shot with it…. I’ve seen face-offs lost in the defensive zone when the defending center stick snaps in half, and I know of a couple of teams that have played with the idea of having a few wooden sticks on the bench for this kind of situation….where you’re trying to win a key face-off in the defensive zone late in the game….
An NHL source out of New York told me today that the league has been in touch with Mr. Leanhardt to discuss designing new sticks, but he has been, of course, extremely busy lately…
An NHL source texted me, “All we know is he loves the idea and actually has already been running computer simulations on various wooden hockey stick designs. As well as field testing…”
The source went on to say select players on the Harvard hockey team have been testing a few designs for three or so months and claim to love it…
The benefits reported include:
1. A better feel with the puck that is transferred through the wood
2. They are surprisingly only slightly heavier…12 or so grams.
3. Far less breakage, especially when taking shots or blocking shots.
4. Less flex on shots; however, about 60% of the players using it said they preferred the accuracy from the feel over the speed that they get off of a bigger flex.
Remember, these are college kids who have never played with wooden sticks. Many of us out there have played with wooden sticks exclusively during our youth… and we absolutely remember what they’re talking about when it comes to feel?
This should be interesting….
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