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Dallas Stars Daily Links: The Lifespan of a NHL Stick

Whenever you watch a NHL game, it seems that there’s always at least one stick that gets broken, if not several more. See enough hardware changes, and you have to wonder: how many sticks does a player go through?

Sean Shapiro set out to find an answer for the Dallas Stars, and the answers might surprise you. For instance, Jason Spezza apparently goes through them like a kid goes through candy after trick-or-treating:

“One game, max,” Spezza said. “Depends on where I am with the previous games.