found this stick in my stuff. got it from a friend in switzerland maybe over 30 years ago. he bought it from another guy. could it be original?

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  2. Its probably a retail model, there are some things you can tell from an yzerman stick. Lots of times it the tape and the shortness of the stick. I’ve also never seen that top knob.

    It could be one that was made for him, but I even doubt that.

  3. My only insight is that local sporting goods stores (Dunham’s, etc) sold sticks like these around that same time frame. I remember my older brother having one that we used for street hockey. this *might* be different but it looks identical to the replicas sold all over the place back in the 90s.

  4. I remember going to Perani’s and looking at the racks of wooden sticks like this. Kinda miss that. I was glad to be done with wood though back then though, the wood stick blades were definitely a pain

  5. Growing up I remember my local hockey gear store having a wall of sticks with player names like this. I don’t think it was a stick Yzerman ever touched, but maybe someone smarter has better insight.

  6. What so you mean by original?
    Is it a stick that has Yzernans name on it? Yes.
    Did he use that stick to play hockey? 99.999999% No.
    Yzerman used red, actually more pink, grip tape on his game sticks… not a plastic cap.
    You have a retail model Yzerman stick that was produced by the thousands in the 90s.

  7. It’s probably just an Yzerman pattern stick. Someone tossed that knob on at some point. The butt end is shaved though. That’s a bit uncommon.

  8. It’s original, probably, but Yzerman never laid a finger on it. I don’t know if you still can, but back through the 90s you could walk into any sporting goods store and buy player model sticks. They’d have all the major stars style sticks just lined up in the shelves. I played with an Yzerman Louisville stick for a while when trying to learn to shoot righty (I was a lefty but wanted to try switching it up to see if I could). But it was easy enough to find Yzerman, Lidstrom, Gretzky….models most anywhere that sold sticks.

    So it’s an original retail stick.

  9. I still have my Yzerman stick from high school in the basement. Played lots of street hockey with that thing.

  10. They sold those sticks with like 6 different player names on them at hockey shops. Sort of like how nowadays you can buy sticks that have the same flex and curve as current players. You were just buying them for the pattern as far as I know.

    Not saying there’s no chance it isn’t a game stick. But I remember seeing those on the racks as a kid.

    If it was a game used stick there’d be a sign that there was once tape on the blade and some wear and tear though.

  11. Not used by Yzerman but a cool twig.

    The names were put on sticks for a different curve type. For example, Sherwood had a Coffey curve and it said Coffey on the stick for Paul Coffey. Now days I think they just do numbers for different curves.

    I also doubt any one in the NHL used that rubber knob. They would fall off on ice and be an issue.

  14. I had one like this when I was growing up. It is an Yzerman signature model stick (indicating his stick profile) that was purchased from a store. It’s not a game stick or anything that Yzerman ever used.
    -edit

    An other example – [https://auction.blockauctionhouse.com/online-auctions/block-auction-house/steve-yzerman-signed-louisville-tps-flex-life-hockey-stick-8153521](https://auction.blockauctionhouse.com/online-auctions/block-auction-house/steve-yzerman-signed-louisville-tps-flex-life-hockey-stick-8153521)

  18. The names on the sticks correlate to the curve type of the blade. Some players had extreme curves while some liked a flatter blade.

  19. I had one of these back in the day. Broke it playing street hockey. Wish I still had it. 🙁

  20. I live in Louisiana now. Unfortunately stopped playing ice hockey when I moved here about 13 years ago. Minimal ice rinks and you, know had 3 kids.

    But you know my Michigan ass has trained my kids to play street hockey, We have a blast AND get weird looks from the neighbors, which is a win/win.

    Anyway, I ended up using my $150 Pavel Datsyuk curve graphite ice hockey stick for street hockey. It actually held up pretty well on the street!

    Just threw it out a few months ago because the blade was a toothpick. Not gonna like, bittersweet day.

    TL:DR; that’s just a Yzerman blade pattern replica, with a mylec plastic nob jammed on top. It’s not worth any money, but it’s still cool as fuck and you should totally go play street hockey with it.

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