Patent ID: 9101804
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: A63B

Abstract:
1. A hockey goalie stick, comprising: a blade, where the blade includes a toe and a heel distal to the toe; a shaft having a width and a thickness; a paddle that extends between the blade and the shaft, the paddle having a first major surface and a second major surface opposite the first major surface with a maximum thickness equal to approximately the thickness of the shaft, where the paddle includes a handgrip area having shoulders in which a width of the first major surface and the second major surface transitions to the width of the shaft, the paddle further including a heel edge and a toe edge between the first major surface and the second major surface, where: where a longitudinal axis of the first major surface divides the paddle into a first elongate half and a second elongate half, where the first elongate half extends from the longitudinal axis to the heel edge of the paddle and the second elongate half extends from the longitudinal axis to the toe edge; and a gripping aid integral with the paddle, where the gripping aid protrudes above the first elongate half of the first major surface of the paddle and has a semi-ellipsoid elongate body with a longitudinal axis that is approximately parallel with an edge of a first shoulder of the handgrip area of the paddle.