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Has anyone ever seen a broken puck?

JLHockeyKnight

JLHockeyKnight

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Just curious, totally random thought from a while back. I was playing open hockey last spring and playing 3 bar, one guy took a slap shot on a break away and rifled it into the crossbar. Don't know if the puck was bad or if it was just a hard shot (it had some good speed on it) but the puck completely shattered into a dozen pieces. I was curious if this is a rare occurrence or if it happens more often then I think. Feel free to share your stories if you have them, and if you've seen them break in other places (boards, etc).
 
JLHockeyKnight said:
Just curious, totally random thought from a while back. I was playing open hockey last spring and playing 3 bar, one guy took a slap shot on a break away and rifled it into the crossbar. Don't know if the puck was bad or if it was just a hard shot (it had some good speed on it) but the puck completely shattered into a dozen pieces. I was curious if this is a rare occurrence or if it happens more often then I think. Feel free to share your stories if you have them, and if you've seen them break in other places (boards, etc).
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

I have yet to see that happen... but here's hoping I do!

Pucks are really just vulcanized rubber... and the vulcanization process usually adds quite a bit of strength to the material. I didn't think you *could* physically break a puck against a post or the boards.
 
I left one in the yard once when I was kid and it went through the lawnmower. Besides scaring the hell out of my dad, it was in pretty good shape after.
 
Playing outside on a cold day a puck will chip around the edges but I've never seen one shatter. Could be that frozen vulcanized rubber is sort of like tempered glass, resistant to impact in most directions but hit it the wrong way and it goes to pieces.
 
My dog got a hold of a puck once. It was gone in a matter of minutes. She was passing the remnants for a few days. I've never seen one break in game play though. And as a goalie I wouldn't know which piece to try stopping.
 
So the puck shatters on the post or crossbar and half the pieces go in the net, the rest don't. Goal or no goal? No goal 'cause the puck has to completely cross the line, right?
 
I wish I kept part of the puck. We threw the pieces onto the bench and kept playing. I could show pictures, but it literally shattered. My guess is it was probably just cold and was old and caught the pipe right. It was still pretty amazing to see it literally explode though.
 
I've seen good chunks taking out of pucks but never one that shattered. Too bad I didn't have liquid nitrogen. I'd freeze one as a gag and take a shot off the boards during warm ups. :laugh:
 
Krejci46 said:
I've seen good chunks taking out of pucks but never one that shattered. Too bad I didn't have liquid nitrogen. I'd freeze one as a gag and take a shot off the boards during warm ups. :laugh:
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I need to add that to my list of to dos, along with replacing the bucket of pucks at the rink with one full of those white goalie training pucks.
 
I remember during a capitals game last season they had a puck break in half. That's the only time I've really seen it.
 
Yeah, I've seen this happen a handful of times when I've been playing, but it's pretty rare.

Low single digits rare over like the past 20 years.
 
I broke a puck once. Slapshot off the post. Into 4 or 5 pieces. I think the puck had been sitting on the ice for a few hours. I've never seen it happen since.
 
I have seen a few pucks explode playing pond.

Only seen a big chunk knocked out of a puck once in a rink. Was a pretty big chunk though.
 
was playing in a high school game in an outdoor rink in mad january about 8 years ago now. the ref dropped the puck at the blue line and it cracked right in half. my defensive partner tried passing it to me when i saw the other team dump the other half into our zone. :laugh:
 
I broke one outdoors when it was around ZERO out, it hit the post on a steel cage and one half went into the corner of the rink and the other went straight up and over the boards to be lost in the snow somewhere.

I kept the half that broke and have it in my game room with my puck display.

Even when it is cold out one needs to be able to shoot pretty hard to break a puck in half.
 
a friend was telling me, todd bertuzzi broke a puck in half at a hockey camp, took a slap shot off the cross bar, and broke in half when it hit the ice
 
I remember reading here that this happened last year when Shane Doan split the puck in half during a Caps/Coyotes game:


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Here's the HFboards thread I could find where I heard about it:
http://hfboards.com/showthread.php?t=565435

There is video here (sorry I couldn't direct link it, you'll have to use the right side to search back to October 23rd, 2008 at about 2:12 into the video):
http://www.neuroticnerd.com/capitals/
 
My dad split a puck in two with a slap shot off the post about 8 years ago. We were skating in an indoor, natural ice rink. The pucks the facility let us use were probably frozen solid as it was around -20 c

I've never seen one split since
 
One thing I can tell you is that some puck manufacturers have different formulas.

If anyone takes to the time the next time you have the ice to yourself or time to do so try taking a bucketload of pucks and hitting the post in close with them after you know they are frozen. You will get different pitches of "ping" noises. Some will sound duller and some will have that high pitched ping like you hear in pro games.

Off hand from memory the Canadian Tire or General Tire pucks have a high pitched ping as do the original Inglasco pucks which the NHL used as they had less bounce. I know this because some of the older ones in my bucket have a sound and feel when frozen of being made of marble or something with a very high pitched ping off the post.

They also have pieces broken off them easier than the standard vulcanized rubber puck, maybe they have more of a plastic compound or something.

The Canadian Tire or General Tire ones have little raised spots on the edges too from hitting the posts. i know it sounds silly but it is true about pucks.

Okay so before you laugh and say all pucks are the same they are not.

I cannot be the only one who has noticed this ... I even have 3 or 4 pucks from the late 70s still that also offer a harder than what the normal vulcanized rubber puck is.

I used to have some pucks I would not use for shooting practice when I used a wood blade because it would ruin the blade before regular pucks would.
 
I broke one in half on 12/24/96. It was during a drop-in at an indoor rink in Tacoma, WA. Took a slapshot, hit the crossbar and broke in half...almost perfectly. I had never, nor have I seen this since. I kept the two pieces and wrote the date on it and have it in a drawer at home.
 
I saw one split into two pieces a couple of years ago off of a one timer, I may not have believed it but I had a pretty good view of it being the one who passed the puck.
 
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