Hockey stick (disambiguation)

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A hockey stick is:

• a stick used to propel the ball or puck in hockey. In particular:
  • Field hockey stick, used to propel the ball in field hockey
  • Ice hockey stick, used to propel the puck in ice hockey
• something shaped like an ice hockey stick
  • Saab hockey stick, styling cue on Saab cars
  • Hockey stick graphs present the global or hemispherical mean temperature record of the past 1000 years
  • Hockey stick controversy about the "hockey stick" graph which shows a sharp recent rise in global temperature
  • a Hockey Stick diagram is a diagram that shows the payoff of a call option or a put option with respect to the price of the underlying asset.
  • a hockey stick procedure turn is the standard way to reverse direction during an instrument landing in aviation.
• Other uses:
  • the name of a step in Cha-cha-cha.