Out of thanks, but thanks! This was entertaining. I always love seeing other professional athletes trying hockey for the first time and having that understanding of how difficult it is to just get on skates.
This is one of the reasons I always argue Hockey is the most athletic sport. All the other most popular sports (Soccer, Football, Baseball) all require running, something we all learn to do when were toddlers. The added skill of learning how to skate and then handling a stick is so much more than just what we learn to do naturally before playing other sports.
This is one of the reasons I always argue Hockey is the most athletic sport. All the other most popular sports (Soccer, Football, Baseball) all require running, something we all learn to do when were toddlers. The added skill of learning how to skate and then handling a stick is so much more than just what we learn to do naturally before playing other sports.
Yeah, if you think about the speed hockey players are moving when they execute, it’s pretty impressive. Their speed bursts are in the 22-24 mile per hour range, which is the same ballpark as the average speed of a 100m Olympic sprinter
And as you mention, they are moving this speed AND controlling the puck
Throw a stick in Usain Bolt’s hands and he would lose a lot of speed, even without a ball or puck
No other sport comes close to the pace of play
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Yeah, if you think about the speed hockey players are moving when they execute, it’s pretty impressive. Their speed bursts are in the 22-24 mile per hour range, which is the same ballpark as the average speed of a 100m Olympic sprinter
And as you mention, they are moving this speed AND controlling the puck
Throw a stick in Usain Bolt’s hands and he would lose a lot of speed, even without a ball or puck
No other sport comes close to the pace of play
Not to mention 5 200+ pound players trying to stop you at the same speed while surrounded by an immovable barrier.
Did we mention a 100 mph small black object whipping around?
And no coasting unless you play for oilers. Sometimes the captain yells unfathomable things at you like “dig in”.
Good video. I chuckled at “I’m getting it now”.
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This is one of the reasons I always argue Hockey is the most athletic sport. All the other most popular sports (Soccer, Football, Baseball) all require running, something we all learn to do when were toddlers. The added skill of learning how to skate and then handling a stick is so much more than just what we learn to do naturally before playing other sports.
I have before me a PDF of the very first book ever written about hockey. It was called Hockey: Canada’s Royal Winter Game, written in 1899 by Hall of Fame forward and Stanley Cup winner Arthur Farrell. I quote from the book:
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Originally Posted by Arthur Farrell
The men who play are, as a general rule, those who excel in other lines of athletic sport. If it is an easy matter to point to a foot-baller, or a lacrosse player, who is ignorant of other games, it is difficult to mention a hockey player who does not shine as an athlete in other branches. It seems that a hockey player, in playing the game, makes use of all the science he acquires in practising other sports, without the roughness.
It seems to have been true from the earliest times: If you can play hockey well, you can learn to play almost anything. But if you play another sport well, and then come to hockey, you have to start learning right from the beginning.
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You kind of don't realize how big a guy Brady is standing around equally tall offensive linemen on the football field and then you see him on skates with Domi and it sinks in.
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