once upon a time. I used to go see the utica devils play all the time in the late 80s.
I still have a bunch of hockey sticks at my parents house that were the players sticks. They would break them, throw them out or give them away.
my friends older brother worked for the team and he used to bring home sticks every night, we would screw on the plastic blades and use them.
I have two claude vilgrain sticks in my dads garage that I used forever!
It was fun to watch players go back and forth between utica and new jersey. When ty domi played for binghamton...I think it was the bingahmton rangers...cant remember exactly but he got thrown out at the utica aud one night and got into a fight with a fan!!!