Patent ID: 7407456

Claim:
A lacrosse stick comprising: a shaft; a collar defining an opening that receives the shaft, a distal portion of the shaft disposed inside the opening radially within the collar; and a head having a juncture, the juncture defining a socket that receives the collar, the distal portion of the shaft and the collar disposed radially within the socket, and the socket and the distal portion of the shaft being non-concentric, wherein the distal portion of the shaft having a shaft axis, the opening of the collar has an opening axis, the socket of the juncture has a socket axis, and at least one of the socket axis, the opening axis, and the shaft axis is offset, when viewed from a side elevation of the lacrosse stick facing an exterior of a sidewall of the head, and wherein the socket axis is offset from the opening axis by one of approximately 1.5° and approximately 3°.