Here is a use for a busted hockey stick never envisioned in the pioneering days of high-impact ice sports. To make pasta, you need a big slab of marble and some flour, eggs, salt, and water. You also need a lot of time, wine, and either strength with a rolling pin or one of those pasta rolling gizmos. It is a lot of work, but it is also a very social activity.
Of course, you’ll need a stick on which to hang your pasta to dry. A busted hockey stick. That’s all. What, you thought I was going to tell you something special? You need a long straight piece of wood, cleaned of spit, polish, hockey tape, and all other unidentifiable schmutz. Now, you might easily reach for a broom handle, but this approach would be misguided. You see, you are in the act of making pasta. You could have simply chosen to go to the local market and buy fresh pasta, but you didn’t. You are reading a book describing many dubious uses for a broken hockey stick. You need to go through the process. Clean up the stick, rub in some flour, place it over the backs of two chairs, and hang your strips of pasta to dry. Ta-dah! Resourceful as ever, you have transformed a fractured hockey stick into a highly-functional culinary accessory.