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Hockey... now THAT is a WTF moment
ChadTower:
You'd be hard pressed to find a major star of almost any era much under 5-10. Maybe that's just perception? Even Gretzky is around 6' tall. Gretzky was really light but not short.
Dartful Dodger:
6' is short for a modern hockey player. And these new guys are as heavy as football players.
ChadTower:
Right, but you could say similar things about every sport. That's just how people are evolving.
wachin:
From my perspective, what I think separates hockey from most other sports is how dramatically the game has evolved into what it is today, specifically over the last 20 years or so. If you take a close look at goaltending (can you tell I'm bias), it is one of the few position in professional sports, if not THE position, that athletes can play totally different from each other and yet still have high degrees of success. You look at a guy like Brodeur and then you look at a guy like Luongo, and you can see how 2 athletes play the exact same position but in 2 totally different ways. Can that be said of any other sport?
Nevermind the fact that NHL goalies have become so good at what they do that the league has to enforce equipment changes to increase scoring (at least in their minds). What other position in a sports have athletes excelled to the point that the league had to change rules to maintain the "integrity" of the game?
Chad: I totally am nostalgic about old school goaltending. I remember back in HS almost 20 years ago, the last summer hockey camp I attended had goalie specific drills: Shuffle to the left, skate save to the left, shuffle right, skate save right, 2 pad slide left, 2 pad slide right. But now I hardly ever do any of those moves. Everything is t-pushes, butterfly saves, backside recoveries...
And yes, I blame my 5'7" stature on why I never made it to the NHL...
Dartful Dodger:
The goalie is different, that's always going to be a big guy.
Chad you've missed my point.
Every sport has a certain type of person that excels in that sport, the people are in better shape but they are still the same type.
The tall skinny guys always excelled in basketball, now they are tall skinny guys with lean muscles, you're not going to see a linebacker playing basketball.
Hockey was a little guys sport(except for the goalie), the lower your center of gravity the better advantage you had.
Now you have to be as big as a house to play hockey.
There are exceptions to any rule, but what I'm trying to say is the "stereo type" in hockey is now the complete opposite.
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