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Lacrosse is different because it is easier to carry the stick with your strongest hand holding in the middle (instead of the end) for better control. Plus you can use your dominate hand to direct the shot better, which is more of a downward motion. Another sport that hockey players play in the off s...

Thank you for all the posts on this blog. I appreciate everyone's input. It seems like we are itching closer to understanding this more recent phenomena of US players becoming more right-handed shooters. If it is really true that 67% of sticks sold by major manufactuers have right-handed curves and ...

jBlaze3000 wrote: If that were the case wouldn't you already see 25-30% of people write left handed in countries that didn't discourage it (such as the US and Canada)? I don't have the stats in front of me but I would venture to guess that far less than 30% of Americans are left handed. I grew up in...

More recent studies have shown that between 10-12% of the population write with their left hand, but this figure is misleading because many cultures force their naturally left-handed children to write with their right hand. In China, which has about 1/6 of the worlds population, everybody writes wit...

I remember watching the first game of a weekend series on Fox North between Denver and the Gophers earlier this year. When Denver had a powerplay opportunity, they would send out their first unit with 4 righties and 1 lefty. They just looked horrible out there, and very clumsy in their puck movement...

One big advantage of playing on the opposite side of your shooting hand, which supports Teak's earlier statement, is knocking in one-timers coming across the ice from the opposite side. It would seem much harder to convert a one-timer, especially a slap shot, if it was done the other way.

I think you make a valid point, which explains why a lot of left-handed shooters play right wing (and also right defense).

Thanks for sharing these stats. I imagine this will change in the next several years as more and more Americans become right-handed players. I don't anticipate this changing for the Canadians, so I boldly predict they will continue to show their superiority over Americans in the game of hockey, not ...

Because I still love playing hockey myself, I really enjoy the thrill of going to different outdoor ice rinks throughout the metro to get my weekly hockey fix in. This year I've been paying closer attention to the shooting hand of all the different rink rats. On any average day I would say righties ...

Oh there is no question that righties are needed to play RD. I just wish they were more productive offensively for the U. If you look at right-handed RJ Anderson's numbers at Centennial HS, he was an incredible college prospect scoring 85 points! There were high expectations for him when he signed w...

To answer your question, is it as critical for defensemen as it is for forwards? It is to become a more offensive defenseman. Look at all the great defensemen like: Bobby Orr, Paul Coffey, Ray Borque, Phil Housley and Brian Leetch. All of these lefties were very productive offensively. Chris Chelios...

Thank you for sharing your story. I am sure that many parents like yourself have done the same to their kids. You know, with your oldest being a squirt, it might not be too late even at that age. In my family growing up, I was naturally left-handed, so I played hockey right. And I had two siblings w...

my2cents wrote: Goalies are predominently righty, and strongest on their glove side. From center ice, a lefty shooter has a more direct angle when shooting at the stick side than a right handed shooter who typically has to cross the goalies body to do so. The geometry favores the lefty over the righ...

Here is an interesting coincidence. After Stoa (a lefty) went down at the beginning of last season, everything for the Gophers started going down hill fast. Without enough good lefties to play LW, Lucia tried to put his three best righties (Bariball, Okposo and Wheeler) on the same line. That was a ...

The last really good righties at the U o f M that could really pile up the points were Johnny Pohl and Thomas Vanek. I suspect that these players (as well as Mario Lemieux) are naturally left-handed in everything else they do. I don't know what Wheeler, Okposo or Johnson are naturally, but I think t...

Gretzky was a lefty. The best righty I have ever seen play the game was Lemieux. The three righties you list as among the top 10 fits the probability of the NHL, which is about 1/3 of the league being right-handed shooters. If 1/3 of all people are naturally left-handed, then this should be the numb...

It seems that the number of right-handed hockey players has been increasing in the state of Minnesota over the years. Unless these right-handed shooters are naturally left-handed for everything else they do, I feel that this will make it more difficult for these players to accelerate to the highest ...