Beaming after finishing with 34 saves, Lundqvist threw his goalie stick into the crowd after being named the game's first star.

In the case of Anaheim's Jean-Sébastien Giguère, there was both symbolic and practical significance in a goalie stick given to him by Patrick Roy.

At the end of games in which he has been named one of the three stars, he has been known to give away his goalie stick to a fan in the crowd.

Richter smashed it into the ice with his goalie stick.

He was ejected at 14:16 when he struck Alan Kerr of the Islanders in the midsection with his big goalie stick.

When the New York Islanders won the Stanley Cup, their notorious hatchet man, Billy Smith, presented the President with his goalie stick.

Hasek also thinks nothing of dropping his goalie stick and covering the puck with his blocker, a move no other goalie tries.

So he raised his big goalie stick and swatted them, earning a two-minute penalty for slashing.

Healy threw down his goalie stick and exchanged heated words with his coach on the bench.

And Billy Smith flailed with his goalie stick first, then 'fessed up to it later.