Abstract: A hockey stick assembly including a blade, a shaft, an intermediate shank, a pin and a spring-biased release member. The blade has a neck portion with an aperture extending through it. The intermediate shank includes a side wall, a release hole extending through the side wall and a pair of aligned pin holes extending through the side wall. The neck portion of the blade nests within the shank so that the aperture of the neck portion is coaxially aligned with the pair of aligned pin holes. The pin is inserted through the aligned pin holes and through the aperture to pin the blade to the shank. The shaft has a blade end and a handle end. The blade end includes a side wall, a cavity extending from the blade end towards the handle end and a shaft hole extending through the side wall. The intermediate shank nests within the cavity of the shaft so that the shaft overlaps the pin to lock the shank to the blade and so that the release hole of the shank is in coaxial alignment with the shaft hole.