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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Handedness in the NHL

By Tangotiger, 01:31 PM

Good data from Gabe, and I agree with him. I do everything right. To me, it’s a natural thing to keep my left hand closest to my body, whether I bat, play pool, golf, or shoot a puck. In all instances, my left hand is closest to my body, and my right hand slides up or down to wherever it should be. Same deal with a two-handed tennis forward stroke, where it’s just like holding a baseball bat.

I wondered if there was any bias towards left- or right-handed shooting based on national origin:

Country Pct
CAN 64
US 63
Sweden 84
Finland 81
Czech 65
CCCP 86
Rest Europe 83

All the nations are left-handed heavy, but even moreso in Sweden, Finland, Russia. I think I read (in this blog somewhere?) that the entire Russian team in the 1972 Summit series was lefthanded.

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