Moment of Science: Hockey Shooting [Video]

We’ve been flexing our brain muscles for a couple of weeks down at Imagination Station, all about the science of hockey, but we haven’t talked yet about how flex really enters into things. Today, we’re going to shoot our shot, and see if we can make the show.

* The Mi’kmaq people of Nova Scotia can be credited for carving the first hockey sticks in the mid-1800s, out of a single piece of sugar maple or hornbeam. A thin shaft with a flat blade at the end — simple stuff, and for a few more decades, stick tech didn’t evolve much, aside from trees like ash becoming more cost-effective. Laminated layered sticks came about in the 1940s, and it took until the 1960s for players to start curving the blades in the direction of their shot.

* We talked about “F=ma” a couple weeks ago, but you can rearrange that so the acceleration of …