Miles Wood learned very quickly the art of using a flame to create a curve on a wooden stick."It was flat when they handed me the stick, and I wanted to put a little curve on it," Wood shared after practice. "So I took a blow torch to it and I lit the stick on fire.
"You have to keep it at the right spot and I was a little too close to it. So yeah, the wooden stick is flammable."
Wood said his dad used wooden sticks growing up and after his own experience with one at practice, it put a lot of thing into perspective.
"It was super flex-y, the flex was not right at all. The blade was weird, I broke the blade off of a slapshot," said Wood. "Back then that's the technology and that's all that they knew at that point so they thought it was great. When I look back on it and tried to use it I don't just get how my dad played with it, or Chris Taylor, or all those guys, or Coach Ruff played with those sticks. I just don't know how they did it. But it was nice to put it in perspective and I'm just thankful we have great technology now."