There are 30 women’s hockey teams on Hokkaido, but only a half dozen play at a decent skill level. Sakuma, 25, followed her older brother, Teppei, into hockey in Houston, where there are two ...

Hockey sticks used to come 'one size fits all.' If players wanted a better fit, it required lots of do-it-yourself, cutting, sanding, heating and bending the stick into a shape and size that fit them.

I have played some form of hockey since I was four years old, and every winter my dad would take me to Canadian Tire to grab a wooden hockey stick. When I finally picked one, every year he would ...

Many players have two or more sticks, costing several hundred dollars each. "How do we handle, you know, families coming off Christmas having to replace $600 to $900 worth of sticks, you know, in ...

4 / 6: Former UMD hockey player Bob Bell, talks about how he crafts the handle for a walking cane created out of an old hockey sticks. (Clint Austin / [email protected]) ...

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 21, 2010, Section SP, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Potter Adept at Handling Hockey Stick, and Children.