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Were you that one friend?
I remember Dale Weise also crushed it in the Dutch league one year and he was a 4th liner on a struggling Canucks roster. Sami Salo also when he had to play a couple games in the AHL after recovering an injury, he looked like McDavid among the AHLers lol.
at the end of the day, if you are a dude who got on to an NHL roster (or any professional roster) you obviously have some talent and thats what people fail to realize. Even the most horrid player will still beat the average person. So the next time you see a dude and say āhes a bum!ā just remember your more bum than him cause hes in the league.
I wonder if he could , would McDavid go back to choose winning over getting the huge contract??
We had an ECHL guy show up to rat one day. Think he scored 15 goals or so that day. I WAS a hotshot beer leaguer defenseman and he got behind me almost every rush. There was nothing I could do and I tried everything. No sport has a more pronounced and steep skill curve by level than hockey. Love this topic. Wish there was more of it
Perfect timing. Xmas day years ago in Calgary got to play UMass stud Cale Makar at the ODR and he made every grown man look like a bag of potatoes. A beautiful humbling sight.
I remember back when Peter Nedved defected and he was on the ice for a game of shinny. There were a bunch of junior A and B plus major junior players and then there was me. Nedved was skating circles around everyone back then. I realized real quick where I stood on. The totem pole. Respect to the skills of NHL players.
There are leagues between the NCAA and the NHL.
I didnāt have the thought. I knew I could. I was freakishly strong. Exceptional hand eye coordination. No money, no family support. Nothing. No help, couldnāt even afford equipment. My sole reason to play hockey was to see how bad I could humiliate multiple opponents at once. I thought hockey players needed to be like the Harlem globetrottersā¦. I was a kid, I didnāt know haha
Solution to that, TAKE THE BODY!
The US colleges considered CHL players as professionals and not acceptable. I was a scout in the 90s and if a Jr player even sat in the bench of any CHL teams in uniform he was not accepted. Jr. A league players were however totally acceptable. Did that change ?
This is a fantastic video and really something Iāve preached for years. Even the worst player in a professional league is heaps better than the average person.
One of my old hockey buddies played shinny with Kevin Bieksa a few times and he was like ādude. Say what you will about the dude in the NHL but he absolutely wrecked everyone out there and wasnāt even trying. Dangles. Snipes. Shots he had no business taking etc. it was absolutely effortlessā If you make the it to the bigs, thereās a reason youāre there. Even if youāre the worst of the best.
Edit: Iām by no means saying Kevin was the worst of the best btw. Please donāt @ me. Didnāt mean to come off like that. Just my story I was able to share that related to this video.
I heard Hossa in interview talking about Datsyuk 1 on 1 training they did when he came to the Detroit. He said Datsyuk was pulling all kind of stuff he never saw and didn't have any chance when they started. But they did this whole season and by the end of it Hossa would hold his own. Along with Toews these 3 guys were best 200ft forward in the league, and no wonder Hossa became that crazy backchecker. Not many players in NHL like them.
Great video!
Though I agree there's level to this, a lot of these examples are just horrible.
– Scalabrine out-weighted his opponent by a lot, that alone is a HUGE advantage for him. Huge is an understatement.
– Trevor was WELL passed his peak and playing the REIGNING NHL BEST DEFENSIVE FORWARD. What exactly did people expect?
– B. Ryan is better than beer leaguers? … Is that suppose to be impressive? I could be a beer leaguer and I can barely skate.
– NHL team is better than AHL team… Who would have thought.
The Briere and Giroux was by far the best example.
People generally have no grasp how good someone can be at something. Watching it from TV doesn't really work because professionals make the hard work look so effortless.
I saw Daniel Sprong play younger in our hometown thought he'd be so much better jn the nhl
Truth is a lot of NHL players have rich parents and that's how they make it. I know a few names that's hockey wise weren't impressive at all. Nicolas Beaudin in mtl Antoine Morand Samuel Laberge just to name a few. These players were average at best. Played midget AAA parents had money that's how they made it. Only a few of these guys are elite level players… put any fringe NHL player agaisnt a CHL player the disparity between the two wouldnt be thats significant.
played beer league with a 3x Womens NCAA champ who made most of us average men look like chumps
I was working that preseason gameā¦ I sleazy knew it was going to be bad for the Canucks right off the jump.
Best game of Huberdeau's Flames career !
We need the golden eye pause menu music back
The NCAA is not even on the same level as the USNDP or the CHL in Canada
I wish I knew I could take on Bobby Ryan
I think I could have been a solid 1st liner in the nhl.
I watched my cousin decimate Wojtek at 10 years old and that's the only kid I believe when they say they could of done the pros and been known, and also I know how his life fell apart by 15 so it's not like he was given a chance. Wojtek the Small Cap got his help needed from fellow Bettman.
7:04 The way that number 20 played it was like how we play in pickup hockey. š³
I was a Beer league goalie for decades. Lots of ex-juniors and guys that played in Europe in our league. One day Glen Cochrane came out to one of our scrimmages. Put on a show at our urging. He went through the whole team and lit the lamp before I even thought of moving. Pretty sure we were pylons on the ice. FYI, super nice guy. He was a lot of laughs. Iāve faced dozens of retired NHLās over the years. Two things Iāve learnt. Never make them mad enough to turn it on and if you do, pray they donāt hit you with the puck. Mad props to David Ayers.
I play sledge hockey in London Ontario. Iām not looking for it constantly but if the opportunity ever came my way I would love to try out for team Canadaās sledge hockey team
I played against Rocco Grimaldi about 17 years ago, and I struggled just to keep up with him. Had another time with Derian Hatcher during the 04-05 lockout, and man that dude was freaking scary as hell and so imposing. I wasn't even going to try and take the puck from him.
This is your best video yet my man!