Abstract: An elongated, rigid, torque-increasing sleeve telescopically received on the flexible handle of a hockey stick; the sleeve being freely slidable, at the player's option, along the stick and having a bore with a cross-section which prevents rotation of the sleeve on the hockey stick handle; the sleeve being optionally positionable, by the player, along the hockey stick handle and retained at a position by a friction brake which includes a flexible side wall of the rigid sleeve; one or more friction plates interposed between the inner surface of the sleeve and the outer surface of the hockey stick handle and activated by a plunger exposed at the outer surface of the sleeve and/or the sleeve includes a slotted side wall permitting opposed side walls to be gripped by a hockey player and frictionally engaged with opposite side surfaces of the hockey stick handle.