Not even able to take a slap shot

  Did you know this year over 1000 players played in the NHL when compared to before, only 1/3 players actually knew how to shoot.

According to the author Eric Duhatschek, who wrote an article in the newspaper The Globe and Mail.

Today's hockey players fitter, faster than 20 years ago, is an article that talks about the hockey players of now compared to the ones of before. The article is reliable because The Globe and Mail is a newspapers that is very popular and they publish articles about very interesting projects. 

With players a lot stronger than before in the days, Mr. Duhatschek states that it is a lot harder for players to make themselves standout on a daily bases because of the more consistent skills of the players. Compared to before, there was 1 very good player one year, a couple decent players and the rest did not have their place in the NHL. But, the NHL needed some players. Talking about strength since the all-star game was in stored, when the 1st all-star game took place, there was this one plyer who won the hardest shot award, the player scored only 3 goals in 41 games and shot a 99 mph slap shot..Now the record for the hardest shot is 110 mph. Which really shows at what point that there is a clear difference in strength, although, there are many variables, such as equipment and better off-ices training's, those factors will not help develop a shot by  nearly 10 mph. The game as became so quick that it is very hard for a player to show is skills.


The coaching has also changed a ton. The strategies are now made to give the better players a hard time to show what they can do. Coaches are paid to win, not entertain as stated in the article. They do this for a living, they win a lot of money for it if they are successful. The first goal is to win, and to win, you must eliminate the best players of the other team. The danger zones are taken away, therefore goalies do not get as many hard shots. Which ponders why the scoring of the games nowadays are a lot lower.


I hope that throughout these blog post you got to learn a lot more about the evolution of hockey over the years.