More often than not, the player with the broken stick will drop the remains and seek out a replacement stick from a teammate on the ice or, more commonly, from a trainer or teammate on the bench.
But what happens to those broken sticks?
In the case of the Blue Jackets, the broken sticks don’t simply get tossed into the trash.
A few will be handed to fans. Some will go to the FOX Sports Ohio Blue Line Store to be sold.
Others are given to the Blue Jackets Foundation to be recycled into furniture and other items, which will be auctioned off to charity.