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by Paul on 03/06/10 at 07:51 AM ET
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from Sean Gordon of the Globe and Mail,
Visualize, if you will, being skilled enough at something that you rise to the top 0.5 per cent of your craft or profession and are paid millions as a consequence.
Now do it backward.
This is essentially what dozens of NHL defencemen are required to do on a nightly basis.
Roughly three in 10 NHL rearguards are right-handed shots (the split is 65 per cent/35 per cent in favour of port-side shooters), but given that half the available jobs are on the right side of the ice, lots of players are being asked to play on the opposite side from where they learned the game.
This is no small matter.
Some old hands, like Anaheim’s Scott Niedermayer and Philadelphia’s Chris Pronger, adjusted long ago, but others say it doesn’t feel natural even years later.
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How old are these guys writing for the globe?
You would think he would casually mention that Bobby Orr had a pretty good career shooting left and playing right.
Posted by HockeyTownTodd on 03/06/10 at 02:24 PM ET