dear ducks…stop breakin my heart.
I’m getting tired of locals who find out the leafs are losing this year and are like ‘omg, again, I thought we were rebuilding’.
Umm yeah we are. We had one of our best drafts ever, last year, and we have like 7 or 8 picks this year, including a couple of first rounders, as well as third’s. We sent all our kids to the minors to keep learning, and not be introduced to a team that gets murdered, and thus learn nothing. We aren’t rushing our prospects. Nylander is still not on the team. I fully expect us to tank this year, and get another great draft pick in what is arguably looking like one of the better, full depth drafts, to emerge in years.
Leafs finally decide to ACTUALLY rebuild, ad you lose your mind because they’re even worse than normal, and have literally no stars on the team, especially on offence?
This thread was buried so deep I almost made a hockey thread. Where is everyone? Season’s under way.
Still too many blacks here for this to be on the first page.
Beisbol postseason
Where are all the Canadians at on SRK?
I’m a Sharks fan. We’re probably going to win our division again but we do every other season, we just never go all the way.
and you can’t search for NHL, so I had to add hockey to the title, to make it searchable lol
I wonder how cheap i can get pens tickets.
Coulda went to a preseason game but I was hammered from pirates day game.
lol. You should have named the thread basketball, that would have got it on the front page haha
you mean African Tree Hockey?
Kool Runnins
The hawks are gonna be having it rough for the next dozen games without Duncan Keith…
So is winger position normally just predicated on handedness? Lefties play LW and righties on the right side? Or is shot handedness something you can work on to the point of being able to switch sides easily enough?
I ask because all 3 of the penguins best wingers are RW and Kessel and Hornqvist aren’t moving and reportedly Sprong couldn’t or shouldn’t move because he is ‘natural RW’.
Usually you want a natural handed player playing on his stick side.
So you aren’t receiving a pass on your backhand and it’s harder to protect the puck on the inside.
But for some reason, many Russians players like to play the off wing.
But in the Pens case, they are just making due with what they have.
Gotta have a good combination of both!
I shot left and played right wing. Due to the angle, I could get a shot to net faster. Darcy Tucker scored a ton of goals this way.
It’s the same in soccer. It’s because when you’re facing in towards the goal from the wing you’re in your power position where you can swing through with the hips. If you do it the other way you need to shoot the puck across your body which pulls it more away from the goal.
everytime someone tells me boston is super racist…i remember…i post on srk.
I heard African Tree Hockey as another name for Basketball like 8 years ago from some little kid. I thought it was one of the funniest things I have ever heard in my life, and I still do.
It’s more pronounced in hockey. The distance between somebodies stick blade on their left side versus their right side can be several feet (\o vs o/), so you’re looking at getting a shot off incredibly quick, and from a completely different angle. So you get a winger or center passing you the puck, you get a one timer off a little bit earlier, and still have good angles on the net. If you shoot right and are on the right wing, it’s much harder to get a good shot off at the left side of the net.
I’ve played a lot of soccer and field hockey. Ice hockey isn’t common here. I generally played right full back (defence) as someone dominantly right footed it made sense for turning on the outside if you’re facing your own goal. That helps protect the ball as it will go out of bounds at worst instead of back into play. When I played offence I played left wing. I reason I got picked for those positions in both sports is because I run really fast and I’m tall.
I wish I had more opportunity to play ice hockey. It’s a really cool sport, mind the pun.