Yeah I ' m not willing to spend more than $ 150 , spent way too many years playing junior snapping $ 300 sticks on my parents dime to know I can ' t afford that now . Seems silly that I ' d have to spend more money to have an extra coating removed . If I can ' t track something down I ' ll probably order one from yourhockeysticks . ca or go back to wood . <| sep |> Make the challenges work . Hire a real designer to make the emblems , not your 12 year old intern that you paid in poptarts to crack out the emblems in a day . Get rid of the jumping nonsense . <| sep |> I ' ve started fucking with them and giving them very long , unwieldy , stereotypical Indian names . Think K r i s hnaradhagopalkannanshivan . <| sep |> I also forgot to mention NVIDIA ' s push for Gameworks back in 20142015 , which was another indirect anticompetitive move by NVIDIA .