PostSportsPlus: The Islanders answer: How does a hockey player find the perfect stick?
EDMONTON, Alberta — Anthony Beauvillier bought into the premise easily.
So is Beauvillier, who also cited junior hockey as the time he found the right mix of stick traits that worked for him. Brock Nelson, though, is in a bit of a different category. “I stuck with the same stick two, three years, and then I went through four or five or six samples, but I always went back to the same stick I had,” he said. “It would take something fairly significant to where it felt pretty good to switch.”
Beauvillier said, “Honestly, it’s more about the feel of it … the weight of it. Just the feel in general of it. When you shoot, how does it feel when you shoot?” In the end, though, this is the ultimate matter of preference. For all the conversations the Islanders might have about sticks in the dressing room, what works for one player might not for another.
“He’s growing, he’s learning every day,” Lambert said. “The nice thing about him is he’s really in tune with what’s going on. He works hard. He works hard off the ice, he works hard with the video. He’s gonna be good.”Talented but troubled Red Wings winger Jakub Vrana cleared waivers this week.It had to have been tempting for the Islanders to take a flier on Jakub Vrana, who cleared waivers Wednesday after the Red Wings shockingly exposed him a day earlier.
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