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Originally Posted by GioforPM
When I was a kid, right handed people shot right. That's what I did and still do. Golf as well. For some reason it changed, I think sometime in the 90s. Someone decided that your dominant hand should be at the end of the stick, they say for control in stickhandling (although my stickhandling was always controlled by my pivot hand - the right in my case - if it's good enough for Mario, it's good enough for me).
Going "opposite" hand also leaves your strong hand on the stick when poking or sweeping one handed.
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CCCP during their dominant era were rumoured to all shoot left. Something about the Soviet system forced everyone regardless of their dominant hand. I imagine that influence NA hockey to an extent.