Is being left handed an advantage or disadvantage.

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...come on that is utter rubbish. why?

a neutral ref calling every foul as they see will simply call what they see. how is the lefty disadvanted, especially if the issue is the mirror symmetry as is claimed above... that means both players have exactly the same chance of getting called and the call should depend on who is actually fouling.

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it's more polite on the grating than on the subs bench

Liam, you gotta know that you set that up too much with your "neutral ref". Of course that is the way it should be. But refs apply reputation to players. It's in the rules that way. If someone makes the same gloving foul they can eventually be kicked out for it. The only way that can happen is if the ref is keeping tabs on a player.

When righties and lefties get tangled up, mostly due to body configuration with their stick arms together, the leftie is going to be seen more by the ref as he has more righties to tangle with. Even if it is just reset as an equal puck. But, by the way reffing is done, it follows that the leftie will have the reputation now applied as the one who was involved in these and is more likely to get the boot for the next one.

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Just in case you weren't sure, it's official -- CMAS sucks.
Oh yeah, and now they're broke.

I have to aggree on that point duck. If a players is consistently getting tangled up with other players, then referees are going to start watching them more to see what is happening.

But one of the issues raised earlier is that most referees are right handed and do not fully appreciate the finer points of a right handed player tackling a left handed player legally. They might know the rules, but when faced with a left handed player, it confuses them becuase the leftie is doing everything back to front. It takes longer for the ref to process it, by which point it is to late, or they don't process it and make the wrong call.

There must be times when every player/referee/coach/spectator has gone 'what the heck just happened there' because something has happened quickly, but they have yet to understand it fully.

Even if a team has 2 left handed players, that still means that 80% of the play will be right handed and easier to process.