02-17-2010, 08:14 PM
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Majority of Canadians shoot left Americans shoot right
Not sure if this has been posted already
"According to sales figures from stick manufacturers, a majority of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, and a majority of American players shoot right-handed. No reason is known for this disparity, which cuts across all age groups and has persisted for decades."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/sp...html?th&emc=th
It’s Not Political, but More Canadians Are Lefties
The New York Times
By JEFF Z. KLEIN
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — What is the difference between a Canadian and an American? The old question is coming up again here at the Olympics, with answers involving eagerness for war, ketchup, the pronunciation of toque or the ability to identify poutine and the Tragically Hip.
But none may be so simple as how one holds a hockey stick. According to sales figures from stick manufacturers, a majority of Canadian hockey players shoot left-handed, and a majority of American players shoot right-handed. No reason is known for this disparity, which cuts across all age groups and has persisted for decades..........
Last edited by ken0042; 02-17-2010 at 08:46 PM.
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02-17-2010, 08:15 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: still in edmonton
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Don't copy and paste the entire article.
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02-17-2010, 08:27 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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I can shoot both ways , neither very hard though lol
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02-17-2010, 08:35 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Calgary,AB
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nickerjones
I can shoot both ways , neither very hard though lol
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That's what she said!
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02-17-2010, 08:37 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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Originally Posted by InSutterWeTrust
That's what she said!
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BAM got me !!! I will have to put this remark in my rolex so I can get you sometime HAHA!!! WHen I get you, I am gonna say "Thats what HE said"... boom I will get ya!!
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02-17-2010, 08:57 PM
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Correction: the majority of sticks sold in the US are right-handed, and the majority of sticks sold in Canada are left-handed.
I'm assuming it's just because people can be taught to shoot either way. I shoot left, bat left, but golf right.
Last edited by TheSutterDynasty; 02-17-2010 at 09:00 PM.
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02-17-2010, 09:10 PM
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Tons of left hitting baseball players in Canada too...look at the WBC lineup for Canada
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02-17-2010, 09:20 PM
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Originally Posted by InSutterWeTrust
That's what she said!
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Or he said . . . whatever
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02-17-2010, 10:00 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Or he said . . . whatever
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I would thank you and laugh at your joke but..
1. i am the butt of it !
2. I already used it !
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02-17-2010, 10:08 PM
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First Line Centre
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It's all because of Gretzky and the Titan hockey stick.
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02-17-2010, 10:33 PM
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My face is a bum!
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I wonder if the age you learned to play hockey has anything to do with it, if you learned to golf or play baseball before hockey for example.
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02-17-2010, 10:44 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hulkrogan
I wonder if the age you learned to play hockey has anything to do with it, if you learned to golf or play baseball before hockey for example.
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This is it exactly. If you bat right in baseball before you play hockey you are almost definitely going to shoot right as you have been accustomed to having your left hand as your anchor hand.
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02-17-2010, 10:49 PM
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Calgary
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I've heard most right-handed people shoot left, and most left-handed people shoot right as well.
But I agree, it's all how you are taught growing up. I am right-handed and also shoot right, I was seven years old before I actually realized there were two ways of holding a hockey stick. I learned to shoot right and that was it.
I have a wicked wrister now and I think it's because my dominant hand is on the bottom of the shaft. Yes that sounds disgusting
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02-17-2010, 10:55 PM
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It definitely has to do with learning baseball before hockey and vice versa. Shooting left in hockey is natural, while batting (and golfing) right is also natural. I believe most Europeans shoot left in hockey.
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02-17-2010, 11:09 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
It definitely has to do with learning baseball before hockey and vice versa. Shooting left in hockey is natural, while batting (and golfing) right is also natural. I believe most Europeans shoot left in hockey.
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I know people that shoot right that haven't played baseball, so no it doesn't have anything to do about learning baseball before hockey
it may sounds nice and fluffy but it doesn't make it true
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02-17-2010, 11:14 PM
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most americans pick up hockey at a later age. since most are right handed, parents (most who have never played) will buy the kid a right handed stick. the kid is then forced to be 'right handed', without actually testing out both.
i grew up left handed, but being asian, my parents tried to force me to be right handed. it worked until junior high when i stared using my left hand for things. now, i draw with my right, write with my left. i am ambidextrous in sports. even now, i have trouble figuring out left and right (like when giving/receiving directions).
i think golfers are right handed, because left handed clubs are so hard to find. i wonder what the stats are for goalies.
for the record, i shoot left
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02-17-2010, 11:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper
I know people that shoot right that haven't played baseball, so no it doesn't have anything to do about learning baseball before hockey
it may sounds nice and fluffy but it doesn't make it true
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Well, obviously it's not a 100% hard and fast rule. Nothing is. There's people in Europe who shoot right as well who don't even know what baseball is.
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02-17-2010, 11:33 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Hamilton, Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
Well, obviously it's not a 100% hard and fast rule. Nothing is. There's people in Europe who shoot right as well who don't even know what baseball is.
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sounds like baseball has nothing to do with it then, it's just a convenient rule when it fits as long as we ignore when it doesn't
For myself i think it just came down to which tools were more assessable for me as a child (all but the bat). My childhood hero shot right but a left handed stick was what was available, and that is what I learned on then.
I shoot left, golf left, bat left but throw and write right
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02-17-2010, 11:46 PM
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hanna Sniper
sounds like baseball has nothing to do with it then, it's just a convenient rule when it fits as long as we ignore when it doesn't
For myself i think it just came down to which tools were more assessable for me as a child (all but the bat). My childhood hero shot right but a left handed stick was what was available, and that is what I learned on then.
I shoot left, golf left, bat left but throw and write right 
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I'm the same as you, except I throw a football with my left hand and a baseball with my right.
I didn't just make up the theory...
http://network.nationalpost.com/np/b...ft-handed.aspx
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When he was associate coach at Tampa Bay, Craig Ramsay told a reporter that if you hand someone a heavy object, he will grab it with his dominant hand. Hand him a hockey stick, and he will grab it with the same hand – and on the ice, that hand will hold the top of the stick, Ramsay said.
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02-18-2010, 12:56 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by awildermode
i grew up left handed, but being asian, my parents tried to force me to be right handed.
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What's that about?
For us whiteys we get the whole "it's the devil that makes you left handed, so into the coal cellar you go until you can shuck corn with your right hand" but I don't know the Asian thing.
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