Its quite a common concept that a passed puck will move faster than a player. Not everyone agrees ...
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Originally Posted by BentFishBoy  1) The concept of a player not being able to move faster than the puck is a fallacy. Do some training. Yes, I'm willing to prove it any time you like. |
In Wellington in about 1994-5 the Wellington Regional team under the guideance of their coach Steve Stoke did some tests to see if this was true.
We placed a line of players along the length of a 25m pool, about 8 of them around a passes distance appart.
When go was called, a puck was passed along the line of players till it hit the other end.
Leaving at the same time, another player sprinted the length of the pool underwater in the same direction as the puck.
The exact details of who/where it was I do not remember. We repeated the test "a few" times (maybe 2 or 3).
The results were:
- The puck did the 25m faster than the player every time
- It wasn't necessarily the fastest player doing the swim, but I think they would have been in the fastest 3 out of the 10 people in the team
- The players were mostly international level mens players (maybe all of them were)
- There were a few really bad passes and mistakes as the puck went down the line ... and the puck still won.
I have no real evidence otherwise. But seeing as BentFishBoy is sure of himself, I'd welcome a few officially timed 25m sprints. And some officially timed 25m passing lines.
Has anyone else been a party to similar tests?
(I would throw down a gauntlet here, but maybe just a clean set of underwear for BentFishBoy would suffice)