The slap shot.
Until the 1950's in the NHL, coaches frowned on the use of the slap shot during games because it was thought to take too long for a player to get it off. Why waste time winding up and allowing defenders and goalies to set up for the shot?
It was thought that there were much better, more effiecient ways to get off a shot at the net, then taking a lengthy wind-up and firing it inaccurately.
But since that time when the slap shot was brought into the game, it has been the most lethal weapon for players from generation to generation, striking fear into goaltenders and allowing the NHL's most powerful players to strut their stuff on a league-wide level.
As the art of the shot has evolved, so too has the technology of the equipment used; particularly the stick. Gone are the days when players use a wooden stick, fresh of the trunk of a tree and nowadays it's all about the composite.
Introduced late in the 1999-2000 season when Easton Hockey had then-rookie for the New Jersey Devils, Scott Gomez try out the first Easton Synergy. Since that time, almost every player in the league uses some form of the ...
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