Hmm, all this talk about hockey sticks has me worried, where am I gonna find me one down here in Florida?

I believe in a broader sense of what might be available regardless of where you might find yourself geographically would be hickory axe or shovel handles, or maybe baseball bats. If you can think of ways to use those for whatever you might consider for a hockey stick, you will be a lot more apt to find one of them available should the hockey stick you keep at home be out of reach.

If hockey sticks happen to be the most common wood based walloping device in your neck of the woods, then by all means use them, just remember that most of the rest of the world probably won't have such a readily available supply of them. Adaptation solves most proliferation shortcomings.