Best Hockey Sticks for 2023 – Top Ice Hockey Stick Reviews

The CCM Jetspeed FT5 Pro hockey stick is a high-performance stick designed for elite players who demand the best in terms of power, accuracy, and control. A low kick point that delivers lightning-fast shots and quick release, making it ideal for players who like to take quick snapshots and wrist shots.

A hybrid kick point design, which combines a soft taper with a stiff blade. This allows for maximum energy transfer from the blade to the puck, resulting in powerful shots and precise control. Additionally, the stick's blade is constructed using a lightweight foam core, which helps to reduce the overall weight of the stick, making it easier to handle and maneuver on the ice. 

Known For:

• R-Geometry shape with rounded edges and concave sides
• Hybrid Kick Point designed to bridge the gap between a lighting fast shot release and great power
• RR-90 Blade with a Damp-Core and peel ply combines exclusive dampening material and an optimized stiffness

The Bauer AG5NT hockey stick is made using BORON in combination with carbon fiber materials, giving you the lightest Bauer stick ever and the quickest release they’ve ever produced. The stick's blade is also constructed using a foam core technology, which provides excellent feel and control when handling the puck.

Bauer is the only brand in hockey with exclusive rights with Speciality Materials, Inc. - making the Ag5nt the only hockey stick in the world with BORON fibers fused with high-grade carbon fibers.

Known For:

• Only stick using BORON fibers fused with high-grade carbon fibers
• BORON provides optimal stiffness and compression strength
• Bauer's lightest hockey stick ever produced

The True HZRDUS PX Hockey Stick is built for rapid puck release, with a low kick point shaft profile for lightning quick shots. Players can ennoy a quick release off anywhere on the ice with an optimized low kick for effortless loading and an explosive response.

Using PLD technology that optimizes 25 layers of unidirectional carbon fiber, the HZRDUS PX is designed with an advanced laminate construction to reduce overall stick weight without impacting durability.

Tri Rib Tech structure in the blade features strategic rib placements designed to match puck impact points, providing a more stable structure on impact. Resflo technology minimizes voids resulting in a much stronger and consistent laminate.

Known For:

• PLD technology reduces overall stick weight without impacting durability
• Tri Rib Tech structure in the blade
• Resflo technology results in a much stronger and consistent laminate
• One of the lightest sticks currently on the market at 345 grams

The Trigger 7 Pro Hockey Stick is CCM’s newest iteration within their low-kick stick line! Utilizing a low-kick profile, the Trigger 7 Pro Stick is a great option for players who are looking for the quickest puck release possible.

CCM's popular E-Geometry shaft is designed to offer a seamless energy transfer to maximize the speed of release. At the top of the shaft, you will find a rounded concave design that allows for advanced comfort and control. At mid-shaft, you find a rounded convex back side combined with a square-cornered concave front, which maximizes dexterity and control.

CCM's Skeleton+ shaft taper provides better reliability and durability in this crucial area of the stick. This will allow for better consistency and quicker shot release in those key moments of the game.

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• High performing Nanolite Carbon Layering technology creates a stick that is both incredibly light and incredibly strong
• E-Geometry shaft: Rounded concave design at the top and rounded convex back side combined with a square-cornered concave front in the middle
• Skeleton+ shaft taper provides better reliability and durability in this crucial area of the stick
• Agility 2 blade with peel-ply technologyuses sigmatex spread tow carbon weave for an even better feel and release speed on the blade

Bauer’s Vapor stick line was designed with shot release speed in mind and the Bauer Vapor 3X is no different.

To achieve the lightning-quick releases, the Vapor 3X features Bauer’s XE Taper at the bottom third of the shaft. This redesigned taper is narrower and oval shaped, which helps stabilize the lower portion of the shaft and blade during hard wrist shots. This results in improved accuracy and control!

Paired with the taper is the Vapor 3X's ultra-low kickpoint. This kickpoint allows player to quickly load up the stick and get the puck off their stick blade as quickly as possible. This is especially ideal for quick wrist shots and snapshots.

The combination of the XE Elliptical Taper and ultra-low kickpoint makes for an incredibly versatile stick. Players can get the puck off their blade quicker than ever before, while also remaining accurate and controlled!

Known For:

• XE Elliptical Taper
• HP Mold construction: lighter and more durable than standard carbon fiber
• MaxBalance blade construction is reinforced in the high-wear areas such as the heel giving the blade improved durability

With improved Sabre Taper and Dynamic Strike technology, the Warrior Alpha LX Pro Hockey Stick is ready to strike anytime, anywhere.

Sabre Taper II Technology combines a specialized geometry shape with a low kick flex that is torsionally stable and provides players with a more powerful and accurate release. The Alpha LX Pro also features reduced weight and faster recoil on shots due to a brand-new laminate design.

Revolutionary Lightweight Construction 188 is Warrior's most advanced construction allowing the stick to be both extremely lightweight and durable. Warrior’s Minimus Carbon UD material uses high strength flat weaves which are more dynamic and elastic than ever before.

The FuelCore Ultra Blade features a tougher edge and a more robust carbon fiber rib design. A Minimus Carbon 25 weave around the core of the blade allows the blade to be lighter without sacrificing the durability.

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• Sabre Taper II Technology combines a specialized geometry shape with a low kick flex
•  Revolutionary Lightweight Construction 188 is a combination of the latest in modern carbon composite technologies
• FuelCore Ultra Blade features a tougher edge
• Ergo Shaft Shape is designed to fit more comfortably and securely into players’ hands

The Sherwood Rekker Element Pro stick features pro spec weight and balance. Blackline XXV Carbon Fiber has over 25,000 filaments creating better stability and less torsional flex. Featherlite XT Technology uses thinner fibers, allowing them to be lighter, tighter, and respond quicker during stickhandling and shooting.

The R-Fire kick point is a low kickpoint providing a lightning-fast release. Sherwood's spear shaft technology extends through the heel of the blade and to give you an overall more consistent flex profile.

The VRF X blade is Sherwood's most durable blade ever thanks to a carbon stringer reinforcement around the toe of the blade.

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• Blackline XXV Carbon Fiber creates better stability and less torsional flex
• Featherlite XT Technology allows the stick to remain lightweigh, yet durability
• R-Fire kick point provides a lightning-fast release
• VRF X blade is Sherwood's most durable blade yet

The Nexus E5 Pro Hockey Stick gives hockey players an incredibly light and versatile stick that gives the ability to do anything from anywhere on the ice.

Bauer's ER SPINETECH is a 5-sided shaft geometry that allows for less carbon fiber layers in the key loading area of the stick. The 5-sided shape provides a unique feel which helps to contour to the players hands for maximized feel and control, and it creates a faster energy transfer to the blade. Combine that with the optimized mid-kick flex profile that allows you to lean into your shots easier, and you have a stick that allows for powerful and quick shots alike.

The shaft of the Bauer Nexus E5 Pro is made of Bauer’s Hexcell carbon fiber material which is strategically layered to reduce weight, but increase durability. A one-piece molding process provides ultimate balance and control when shooting, passing, and stickhandling. Dualcell Bridgecore technology in the blade adds stability and control in key strike zones throughout the blade.

Known For:

• ER SPINETECH, a 5-sided shaft geometry that allows for less carbon fiber layers in the key loading area of the stick
• Hexcell carbon fiber: lighter and more durable than standard carbon fiber
• Dualcell Bridgecore technology in the blade allows for a strong blade with great control

TheTrue HZRDUS 3X is built for rapid puck release with an optimized low kick. This kick point gives the player effortless loading and an explosive response.

Tri Rib Tech structure in the blade features strategic rib placements designed to match puck impact points, providing a more stable structure on impact.

Known For:

• Optimized low kick point
• Tri Rib Tech structure in the blade
• A lightweight 445 grams

The Covert QR5 50 is a great entry level model for any recreational player that is looking for a great stick with a quick release.

Warrior's Edge Taper shaft design runs throughout the stick and drives flex energy through the hosel, magnifying power and giving the player the quickest release possible. This geometry also improves stick response and allows the stick to play stronger.

Minimus Carbon flat weave carbon design provides excellent feel, and Revolutionary Lightweight Construction 111 features the latest lightweight fiber technology and epoxy resin formulation to provide the ultimate in strength and playability.

Known For:

• Edge Taper shaft design drives flex energy for the quickest possible release
• Revolutionary Lightweight Construction 111 features the latest lightweight fiber technology and epoxy resin formulation 
• Classic tacky soft grip