your video reminded me of a michael mackelvie video, so I’m glad you’re a fan of him!

Rip Johnny hockey u where one of the small players in the NHL

Theo fluery mart st.louis are examples of small players who were superstars.

you should do a video peneras story

Man. Gotta love your videos here. They are good very analytics of stuff that doesn't get so much covered indepth on most other hockey channels. Just went through some of your less recent videos as well and they are definitely worth watching. Thanks for putting the time and effort to make them. Subscribed.

70% of NHL players shoot with the left, even though most of them are not left-handed.

I'm right-handed but played left-handed in youth hockey, high school lacrosse and batted lefty in little league????

Good work. Don't forget Paul Kariya and his brother Steve Kariya. 😊😊 13😢😢G bros

Wow. Like you, I have always made a point of noting whether a person is right or left handed, be it in writing, throwing a ball, swinging a bat or shooting a puck. This is the first time I've ever heard another person say that they can't fail to notice this when looking at a hockey player, so I'm a bit heartened that I'm not the only one who does this. Here are some random and personal thoughts on this topic. When I was growing up in the 1970s and managed to collect all 396 cards of the 1977-78 O-Pee-Chee hockey card set, I used to like to take the cards and organize them in different categories, one of which was right versus left handed shooters. To my surprise, and the video here corroborates this, roughly 60% of the players in the league shot left at that time and the rest right. I couldn't understand this since I assumed that if most people were right handed, then most hockey players should also shoot right and that shooting left should be as rare as writing left handed, but this video explains why shooting left, even if you're right handed, can be an advantage in terms of where your dominant and weak hands are on the stick. One thing that I noticed in many of the goals shown in the video is the prevalence of players entering the offensive zone on their off wing, that is righties entering on the left side and lefties entering on the right side of the blue line. Years ago, there was a stronger tendency for wingers to skate up and down the ice on their "correct" wings, that is righties on the right side and lefties on the left side. I'm not sure when this started to change, but I can remember that back in the day Wayne Gretzky (who shot left) had a signature move in which he would enter the opposing team's offensive zone on the right side (his off wing), do a little circle move inside the blue line to allow his wingers to enter the offensive zone and then dish the puck off to one of his forwards for a goal, or, if Gretzky was given room, cut into the middle of the ice away from the righthand boards and fire a shot at the net. Now Gretzky was more of a playmaker than a goal scorer in the latter half of his career, so I'm not entirely sure whether entering the zone on your off wing brings with it any kind of an advantage when trying to set up a goal, but Gretzky used this with great success. But I think it's obvious that if a player is more of a goal scorer, then coming in on his off wing allows him to have a better angle at the net because the net would appear wider in the middle of the ice rather than coming in on his "correct" wing, which would put his stick and the puck further away from the net and so make for a more difficult angle to shoot the puck and score. As an example, (another left hand shooter) Auston Matthews' signature goal scoring move is to take a pass from another forward while Matthews is at the top of the right face off circle on his off wing. I've even noticed that opposing teams have successfully neutralized Matthews' scoring ability by crowding the right side of the ice and so forcing Matthews over to the left wing where he is forced to shoot from further away from the net at a more difficult angle. On a personal note, I played hockey when I was a teenager and being right handed and a goalie, I had the glove on my left hand and the blocker on my right hand. One problem I had in this case is that I shot right and when I had to stand in goal, I would of course hold my stick in front of me with the blade in front of my skates, while it was pointing to the left. So, I had two options when having to the handle the puck: either flip the stick over so the blade was on my right side while holding the shaft with my glove hand up top and my blocker hand on the bottom, or, slide the shaft down my blocker hand so that it was on top and use my glove hand to hold the lower part of the stick. Doing the former forced me to hold the stick in an awkward manner on my natural side, but doing the latter forced me to shoot on my wrong side, so it's not surprising that I was a terrible puck handler as a goalie. At one point, I even considered buying a second right glove and left blocker to wear on the opposite hands so that I could hold the stick more firmly on my natural right side when stickhandling the puck, but unfortunately hockey is an expensive sport and my hockey playing days soon came to an end, so I was unable to experiment with different gloves and blockers. But the above story has lead me to wonder if there are any goalies who own two sets of blockers and gloves and who wear one set for certain teams and another set for other teams depending on which way the opposing teams' best goal scorers shoot. I'm not sure whether this is against any rule, but a goalie could switch back and forth between different sets of gloves and blockers during a shootout depending on which way a shooter shoots or which side a given shooter prefers to shoot in a shootout or a penalty shot situation. Just my thoughts on this interesting, but rarely discussed topic.

As a shorter Dallas fan, Stankoven has become one of my new favourite players. Any time he’s on the ice he elevates his whole team.

Does trading away your talent for pics or people not caring enough to play for their pay when they will be on the gold course next week count as tanking?

Juuse "Juice" Saros is our favorite - he gets a lot of flack from commentators about his height but part of his charm is he's a fairly average height guy (short for NHL) in a role notoriously favoring tall players and proves height isn't everything. Feels a bit more relatable that way.

I’m a right handed shot and played Left wing almost exclusively as long as I can remember.

vegas gonna find a 9th

Shaq commentating on hockey will never not be funny

I LOVEEE the orange on the jerseys, it looks so good

Think Crosby, listed at 5'11, who isn't particularly tall, can use his sturdy frame to his advantage by getting low and protecting the puck

almost every NHL player suddenly "gains" an inch or two. especially when moving to north america from europe

Nathan Walker being mentioned is really a good point cos dude is no way his listed height at 5'9 (met him and I'm 5'4 and he was only a couple inches taller than me), came from Aus, undrafted and now has played over 150 games in the NHL

11:11 Go Sioux!

Cause the leafs play at home

You’ve got me wondering with the inflated listed heights and after that interview clip: for this video is Connor Garland considered to be 5’10”?

Bonus stick tap to D Francis Bouillon, who somehow made a career of trucking guys while being 5'8''!

The problem is long-term ability to to get hurt

Amazing Darren Pang played in goal at 5’5, crazy

I think you’re missing one huge part of this. Developing during youth hockey. The Scouts and coachs are gonna pick the biggest and most promising looking players so the division starts at mites and squirts. The smallest players are more likely to be less skilled so they get put on the lower teams. The compounding effect of having the best coaches and more ice time as kid vs having the 2nd tier coach’s and less practice or games is huge in youth development.

Samuel Girard is listed as 5’10” but seen him up close and personal guy is around 5’8”

Kinda disagree... it depends how the small skaters skate like with a wide base like Marchand or a traditional narrow base like Jack Hughes. Do you use the hip check? And how heavy are you? Guys like Nils Hoglander, Brad Marchand, Logan Stankoven, and even Cole Caufield are built like little rocks that don't go down easy and might deliver the blow themselves. Especially Hoglander, that dude is solid!!

So you’re telling me there’s a chance

Thanks for the video. I just wanted to say that Jesus Christ loves you so much and died for everyone's sins on the cross. He ways you to believe in Him, Ask for forgiveness of your sins, turn from them, and start a new life with God today. Start living in a beautiful and fruitful relationship with the most High God. He loves you and wouldn't lead you astray. Jesus loves you. ❤

Brett Seney AHL Icehogs captain is an absolute grinder and one of the more determined players I've ever seen

God damn i miss marchy on vegas

Yeah no way Brad Marchand is 5'9 lol the size difference between him and Crosby is much bigger in that training video they had

Bobby Lalonde was listed at 5’5 but he is 5’4.

Figured my dad would make an appearance and there he was

Seeing Johnny at the end teared me up. Classy and great videos as always D9

Far and away the best hockey vids on youtube..

Nice video

I would love to see an NHL goalie go old school brown leather…now that would be a unique idea and touch! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

I don’t think white pads should be mandatory-I feel like you still gotta let goalies get creative, creativity is cool and it also adds character!

I used to like Marty Gerber’s ‘all black’ look in Ottawa! 👌🏻

Back in the 80s and prior poor people could compete. Something tells me Link Gaetz and Donald Brashear did not come from wealth.

Who is the 5’10” guy on the Canucks?

Rocco Grimaldi -- fastest hat trick in Nashville history.

About those reported heights,no way St Louis is 5’8 he’s more like 5’6

No jack hughes im being gaslit.

R.I.P. Johnny Hockey

Logan Stankoven is 5'8" has played 42 NHL games, and has 32 points. 8 goals, 24 assists. He's a damn good player

Marcel Dionne for the win!! My hometown superstar!!

Thank you for uploading I was having a crappy day