Heel to Toe or Toe to Heel

dangla. · Post by **dangla.** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 3:25 pm

which way are you really suppose to tape it

Puckhandler · Post by **Puckhandler** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:12 pm

dangla. wrote:which way are you really suppose to tape it

Wayne Gretzky taped heel to toe.

End of discussion.

Can't Never Tried · Post by **Can't Never Tried** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:31 pm

Amusing!
Why would you tape toe to heel?

lampthelight · Post by **lampthelight** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:35 pm

Does it really matter how you tape your stick? If any player can notice a difference... they need to be in another league besides the MSHSL...

hockeyeast223 · Post by **hockeyeast223** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 9:39 pm

its heel to toe so there is spin on the puck when a shot is taken which causes the puck saucer. The tape peels back when the puck rolls from heel which makes this happens. At least that's how Bjugstad teaches it.

boblee · Post by **boblee** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:11 pm

Everyone waxes their stick anyways. So it doesn't matter.

hockeyeast223 · Post by **hockeyeast223** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:36 pm

no one waxes their sticks.

boblee · Post by **boblee** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:44 pm

hockeyeast223 wrote:no one waxes their sticks.

Send him a chair, Lee.

dangla. · Post by **dangla.** » Sun Oct 28, 2007 11:33 pm

hockeyeast223 wrote:no one waxes their sticks.

where have you been?

Goldy Gopher · Post by **Goldy Gopher** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:06 am

boblee wrote:Everyone waxes their stick anyways. So it doesn't matter.

This is true. Wax makes this argument irrelevant.

hockeyeast223 · Post by **hockeyeast223** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 12:16 am

It was a joke. It just made my point about heel to toe tape meaningless. The real question is what scores more goals, black or white tape?

lampthelight · Post by **lampthelight** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 2:39 am

Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.

boblee · Post by **boblee** » Mon Oct 29, 2007 9:59 am

I'm guessing if you did a study and had great goal scorers use white tape half the games and black tape half the games you wouldn't see any significant difference. The color of tape has no bearing on scoring goals.

The Best 4th Liner · Post by **The Best 4th Liner** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:22 pm

are you serious??

boblee · Post by **boblee** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:25 pm

Yes, I am serious.

Undercover Hockey Lover · Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:49 pm

I was always told black disguises the puck if you tape the entire blade.

slapnasty · Post by **slapnasty** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:50 pm

Its all about the white tape. When you use white tape you put more velocity on the puck than with black tape. Clearly, white is the way to go.

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:52 pm

lampthelight wrote:Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.

The Gretzky poster in my garage has him with black tape.........gospel

Boblee, there are superstitions in hockey. Believe and succeed!

tomASS · Post by **tomASS** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 3:56 pm

shhhhhh

the girls might be offended that you are not including PINK

tape in the discussion

boblee · Post by **boblee** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:25 pm

I played goalie in high school and tape color makes no difference in whether the puck goes in or not.

Can't Never Tried · Post by **Can't Never Tried** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 4:32 pm

breakout wrote:
lampthelight wrote:Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.

The Gretzky poster in my garage has him with black tape.........gospel

Duh!! what a sucker!!

deception is part of the game...it was a poster, and you got sucked in!! white tape all the way!!

It's heel to toe!
In the old days black tape was that friction tape, and was very sticky on both sides so the edges of the tape wouldn't curl up and grip the puck, where as the white tape would.
And yeah, I've heard the hide the puck thing too, maybe.

Now all the tape is made the same so it doesn't really matter.
Wax seems to defeat the gripping effect of the tape, but IDK, maybe the wax gives enough grip, never cared for it myself, of course it didn't matter much on my straight blade Northland pro.

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:00 pm

Can't Never Tried wrote:
breakout wrote:
lampthelight wrote:Black or white... hmm... what did Gretzky use? Last time i checked he scored a few goals in his day.

The Gretzky poster in my garage has him with black tape.........gospel

Duh!! what a sucker!! deception is part of the game...it was a poster, and you got sucked in!! white tape all the way!!

Once again, I feel like such a fool

breakout · Post by **breakout** » Wed Oct 31, 2007 5:02 pm

boblee wrote:I played goalie in high school and tape color makes no difference in whether the puck goes in or not.

Right skate or left skate went on first? Right leg pad or left leg pad went on first?

Hockey, like a lot of sports have superstitious people. If you believe black tape will not work for you...........you are probably correct.

However, I do understand where you are coming from.

GRhawky · Post by **GRhawky** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:40 pm

Chuck Norris used white tape...not black

Case closed

State Champ 97 · Post by **State Champ 97** » Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:46 pm

GRhawky wrote:Chuck Norris used white tape...not black

Case closed

But it was on his knuckles.

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