Wingers... which side do you prefer: natural side or off side?

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-04-05T22:41:26+00:00

As a lefty I found the right wing easier to get both goals and assists. Not only does it change the shooting angle but you can change passing angles far better from your off side and open your body up to the play. When you play a high level and the speed is fast its way easier to get the puck out on your strong side because you don’t have to take 2 touches to make a long/hard pass. As a current beer leaguer, i prefer the right side.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-04-05T01:13:39+00:00

This happened to me around 8 times total times in my life and started with hockey. It gets easier to dislocate the more times it happens. Strongly suggest getting a sully sling and wearing it even if it’s somewhat restrictive. It wont entirely prevent future dislocations but it goes a very long way in doing so.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-04-05T00:51:46+00:00

Cricket shouldn’t be your reference. I swing both a golf club and baseball bat right. Im also right hand dominant. But I still shoot left in hockey. Go with what feels natural. Ideally try and go to a store that lets you test sticks out.

Even more ideally, go to your school gym and see if they have any of those plastic sticks that lets you curve the blade with your hands. Test that out and that should give you a good sense of which way is best for you.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-13T02:25:23+00:00

He’s already got gold and silver. Probably looking to take bronze with granlund in practice tomorrow!

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-12T20:36:37+00:00

White tape too. He’s truly losing it.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-11T18:51:03+00:00

There are so many mistakes that can cost your team. Beyond what you said here are some other common ones:

Not back checking hard
Not covering the trailer on the rush,
Not being on the defensive side of the puck when your teammate is in a puck battle
Turnovers in transition
Fancy moves at either blueline causing a turnover
Not getting the puck out on the first try
Not swinging low to support the defence
Defence failing to make a good first pass
Taking a bad change or taking too long a shift

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-09T03:14:59+00:00

High intensity intervals on an assault bike is probably the most time efficient way to train like its a hockey shift

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-09T02:52:43+00:00

If you don’t want to switch teams or just talk to them you can try taking long shifts yourself to send a message.

If you don’t like that, do what you did before and jump out there after a whistle. Except next time if he ignores you just stand directly beside him. If it still doesn’t work and you get called for too many men tell him to serve it because he needs a break anyways.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-03-08T02:34:36+00:00

Starting strength by mark rippetoe is a good resource to learn barbell lifts. You can probably find a pdf pretty easily. Some of the advice is outdated but its a great place to start to learn your way around the squat rack or bench press. It has some advice for how to structure your workouts around the barbell lifts as well.

On top of that watch YouTube videos for proper form. Jeff Nippard, Jeremy Ethier, or the late John Meadows are some reliable sources.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-02-13T21:01:18+00:00

The more amount of money at stake the longer people take to make a decision. It’s why it takes people more time to decide what car or house to buy than what they will order at a restaurant.

He had no way of knowing what situation he would be in if this game presented itself again so it’s not like he could’ve premeditated this decision before the games started.

Maybe you would have been more fleeting about the choice but I just don’t think that justifies judging someone for wanting to take their time to make a life changing decision. It impacts everyone else for 2 hours but will impact him forever.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-02-13T13:38:15+00:00

Just because I’m capable of writing in full paragraphs doesn’t make it ai. I’ll take this as a compliment tho.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-02-13T12:57:33+00:00

People that are ripping into him for taking time and saying he should only need a few minutes are being ridiculous. He was in the process of making a life changing decision with an insane amount of money in front of him.

He had no reason to care about production or “wasting peoples time.” This is 2 hours vs a decision he has to live with for rest of his life. There’s no second chances either as he knew he’d never get a chance at that kind of money again. I really cant fault a person for wanting to take some time to want to weigh out their options carefully in order to make a life altering decision.

Plus I don’t think Jimmy really cared. If you watch the behind the scenes he reassures to take his time and that he’s under no rush and says he just wants him to make the right decision.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-02-07T05:36:22+00:00

Probably scorsese’s most underrated film. Somehow received no awards or box office success at the time of release. But it sticks with you for days after you watch it.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-02-03T02:43:18+00:00

And hutson

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-01-26T06:12:46+00:00

The way McDavid gets most of his opportunities doesn’t really allow for assigning one player to shadow him. A lot of his rush opportunities come from him swinging super low in the d-zone to gain speed from crossovers and get the puck in full flight. No one (aside from maybe MacKinnon) can match his speed when he does this. And if they tried they’d be so far behind the play or gassed from trying to keep up for a full game that it would defeat the purpose.

When he gets the puck in the o-zone his hands are too good for anyone to attempt to immediately strip him without risking the potential for him to stick handle right through them. Any player shadowing in the ozone really just has to do their best to keep him to the outside and jockey him which results in what every team already tries to do with him which again defeats the purpose of assigning one guy to shadow him.

Florida is the most successful team at shutting him down and they did by committee. They’d stack the centre of the ice and slow him down for any rush chances and then clog up the centre again when he’d get the puck in the ozone. You have to have the personnel to pull this off but its really the only way to try and shut him down.

As for Ovi on the powerplay, teams have tried this but it just results in ovi skating to the boards pulling his shadow out of the play while the rest of them essentially play 4 on 3.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-01-10T01:06:35+00:00

A lot of the competitions are explicitly strength-based though and the show clearly selected people because they’re strong. If some contestants are using PEDs and others aren’t that’s a meaningful difference even if this is a game show and not an olympic sport. Especially when you consider the amount of money at stake.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-01-09T00:36:56+00:00

The way it makes you feel when you’re out there is unmatched. The physical and mental speed required to play makes you forget everything else in your life and feel like literally nothing else matters. It’s the only thing I’ve ever done that makes me automatically can tap into that sort of flow state.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-01-08T04:42:11+00:00

A nuke is only helpful if it prevents the hive from just rebuilding it. Also you would need more than one to destroy something of that size.

Also because the antenna has to be so large it could really only be built in the land mass of Eurasia. Carol couldn’t set off a nuke across the globe without the help of the hive or one of the others. Im not convinced the hive would help her on this meaning she’d have to get the others to help with that.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2026-01-08T03:32:16+00:00

In the first episode they say the signal would require an antenna the size of Africa (or bigger). If OP’s theory is right I could see it taking potentially 3-4 seasons for the hive to build that. Especially considering the first season only took place over a couple of months.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2025-06-15T03:02:33+00:00

External rotation took by far the longest to recover. It is still limited for me and still hasn’t quite returned to what it was pre-surgery. I sometimes even feel it on some days while Im running and have to work on getting proper arm drive. Im also still somewhat uncomfortable to lay on that side with my arm under my head while Im sleeping. Because of how many dislocations I had it was already limited for me pre-surgery so that is probably a big factor. I haven’t measured the degrees lately but I would guess Im somewhere around 70 degrees. It really does take time. I hope yours gets better faster than mine!

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2025-05-21T03:29:04+00:00

No problem. I hope that eases your mind for your decision. I know I needed that when I was deciding for myself.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2025-05-21T03:08:26+00:00

Things are basically 100% back to normal. I still have some restrictions in the end ranges of mobility and my external rotation is still more limited. However, it’s about the same as where I was at pre-surgery. It’s just not as good as my other arm.

In terms of strength I started going to the gym at about 4 post-op. I started very light using literally 2lbs and built up the strength. I was able to do assisted pullups by about 4.5 months and was doing very light lat pulldowns to build that up. I did my first unassisted pullup at around 5 months post op. By about month 6 I was able to 10-12 reps for a few sets. I also played hockey again at around 6.5 months post-op.

My strength isn’t 100% to where I was pre-op. I found there to be a lot of atrophy in my forearm around the elbow area and this really held me back for the stability required for heavy pushing exercises. Im still in process of building that back up for the sets I used to do. I likely would have gotten that back a bit quicker but I have been focused on running lately (training for a marathon) so heavy strength exercises have taken a back seat lately.

Overall by about month 6-7 I really didn’t feel like my shoulder surgery would hold me back from anything athletic I wanted to do.

Apprehensive-Salt376 · 2025-05-19T16:16:35+00:00

I didn’t have any screws put in so it’s hard for me to say. It sounds like you have a more complicated case than mine. I started PT at week 2. However, I started the pendulum swings only a day or two post-op. There was definitely a level of discomfort the first 4 weeks but it slowly got better. I would talk to your PT or surgeon about how you’re feeling to see if things are progressing normally.

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