I have been in hockey for over 30 years playing, coaching, referring, and administering, and have been told that the player needs to experiment to find out what is most comfortable. I look at it as a strngth thing. A right handed person has a stronger right hand, therefore that should be at the top of the stick, that is left in stick jargon. Whe I was growing up in Western Canada right handed players were hard to find. Now in Minnesota, lefties are hard to find, and many players cannot shoot very well. Correlation - maybe. Bryan [log in to unmask] HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.