Leafs Acquire Jake Muzzin

[herman]

No just Googled it and only 10% of us are Left handed. So the ratio in the NHL is different for other reasons.  Perhaps left handed people have to adapt in so many ways to a right handed world that their brains are more adept at certain skills. I would have thought it was more like 70-30 or even 80-20... Interesting.

I think it's more to do with the debate over whether it's better (or rather preferable) to have your dominant hand at the top or bottom.

I'm right-handed and shoot left. I can't fathom having my right hand at the lower end and shooting right. It feels as awkward as writing with my left hand.

Yeah, it depends on the coaching (philosophy) you received and training mixed with your natural preference (which exists on a spectrum). The 10% ball park lefty number is probably fuzzed with many schools before the 90s forcing kids to operate right handed. The world is slightly more inclusive now to lefties, hence the growing numbers.

With enough time and motivation, a young person can build the neural pathways to going against their natural handedness. Handedness with writing/eating doesn't necessarily directly translate to stick sports (hockey, golf, lacrosse, baseball) but there was a prevalent school of thought in hockey circles to start kids with their dominant hand at the top, which enabled stronger control when playing one-handed and driving more leverage on shots. I don't know for certain, but I'm guessing there's a mix now of letting kids play the way that feels right and some parents/coaches seeing the opportunity on the right side forcing kids to shoot that way pushing the numbers in that direction.

A good number of the current top tier 1D in the NHL we yearn for are righties:
Karlsson, Hedman, Letang, Subban, Doughty, Weber, Burns, Byfuglien, Klingberg, Ekman-Larsson, Carlson, Pietrangelo, Jones, Trouba, Fowler

Just from a cursory image search, they're not all left-handed. Hedman, Subban, Weber, Doughty, Klingberg are right writers. Karlsson, Jones, Letang are lefties.

 

[Highlander]

No just Googled it and only 10% of us are Left handed. So the ratio in the NHL is different for other reasons.  Perhaps left handed people have to adapt in so many ways to a right handed world that their brains are more adept at certain skills. I would have thought it was more like 70-30 or even 80-20... Interesting.

I think it's more to do with the debate over whether it's better (or rather preferable) to have your dominant hand at the top or bottom.

I'm right-handed and shoot left. I can't fathom having my right hand at the lower end and shooting right. It feels as awkward as writing with my left hand.

I have played golf all my life, I am a right handed player, so my left hand is at the top of the club. Can't imagine shooting left at all, feels like I am a puppet on a string when I try...LOL

 

[CarltonTheBear]

17 minutes away from seeing the new defence pairings.

Can you tell I'm going through a Leafs-withdrawal?

 

[CarltonTheBear]

17 minutes away from seeing the new defence pairings.

Can you tell I'm going through a Leafs-withdrawal?

Any minute now.

 

[herman]

17 minutes away from seeing the new defence pairings.

Can you tell I'm going through a Leafs-withdrawal?

Any minute now.

That flood of lineup tweets from 17 different people in a 2 min span is going to feel great.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1091048333718765569
https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1091048278639239168

 

[herman]

How has portrait mode videos not been banned or software corrected by phone developers in this day and age?

 

[Arn]

No just Googled it and only 10% of us are Left handed. So the ratio in the NHL is different for other reasons.  Perhaps left handed people have to adapt in so many ways to a right handed world that their brains are more adept at certain skills. I would have thought it was more like 70-30 or even 80-20... Interesting.

I think it's more to do with the debate over whether it's better (or rather preferable) to have your dominant hand at the top or bottom.

I'm right-handed and shoot left. I can't fathom having my right hand at the lower end and shooting right. It feels as awkward as writing with my left hand.

Yeah, it depends on the coaching (philosophy) you received and training mixed with your natural preference (which exists on a spectrum). The 10% ball park lefty number is probably fuzzed with many schools before the 90s forcing kids to operate right handed. The world is slightly more inclusive now to lefties, hence the growing numbers.

With enough time and motivation, a young person can build the neural pathways to going against their natural handedness.

Interestingly I recently played cricket (like baseball but slower) against a guy who bowled (kind of like pitching but with a run up) left handed but threw right handed. That got confusing

I personally bat right handed (left hand at the top) but have trained myself to be able to switch my grip to be able to open up the field for more scoring opportunities.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/reporterchris/status/1091051556236156929

YES

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1091051848532967430

Swish

 

[CarltonTheBear]

Now I get to be angry that Babcock is obviously fine playing Rielly on the right side, he just chose not to all this time.

Like I mean even if he wanted to have Hainsey on the top pairing it should have still been Rielly on the right.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

The effect of playing Rielly on the right side could potentially be huge. We've all pretty much assumed other coaches' tell their teams to focus on the left side when the Leafs are breaking out because that's where all their puck-movers are. Now the Leafs won't be quite as predictable in that sense.

 

[cabber24]

https://twitter.com/scottcwheeler/status/1091051848532967430

Swish

Bump all those bums down! Minutes taken away from the inferior. Oz out and fewer minutes to everyone but Reilly.

I think they should break Rielly and Muzzin up. The bottom 4 in any combination aren't good enough on their own. Why even have defined pairings? Rielly and Muzzin should sub each other and cycle through the rest.

 

[Kin]

Agreed. When is Babcock going to finally move on from the failed Muzzin-Rielly pairing?

 

[cabber24]

Agreed. When is Babcock going to finally move on from the failed Muzzin-Rielly pairing?

Yes, that is exactly what I said. My point is let's have one of these two on the ice as much as possible. Together it's harder to do that.

 

[CarltonTheBear]

https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1091058247191150598

Well that's a little unexpected, but again I like it. The whole 4F on the PP thing came at a time when 3-4 defence spots were being taken up by refrigerators and teams simply didn't have enough good offensive defencemen in their line-ups. Now they do, so it shouldn't automatically be 4F and 1D anymore it should just be the 5 best offensive weapons. A guy like Muzzin is better than an option like Brown.

 

[Kin]

Yes, that is exactly what I said. My point is let's have one of these two on the ice as much as possible. Together it's harder to do that.

Yes, and personally I'm inclined to give Babcock at least one second of ice time before calling out his strategy as the wrong one.

 

[herman]

Interestingly I recently played cricket (like baseball but slower) against a guy who bowled (kind of like pitching but with a run up) left handed but threw right handed. That got confusing

I personally bat right handed (left hand at the top) but have trained myself to be able to switch my grip to be able to open up the field for more scoring opportunities.

In my mind, it comes down to Strength and Control. Usually the dominant hand for both of those things is on one side. Sometimes it isn't and you get a chance to prioritize accordingly.

 

[herman]

Agreed. When is Babcock going to finally move on from the failed Muzzin-Rielly pairing?

Yes, that is exactly what I said. My point is let's have one of these two on the ice as much as possible. Together it's harder to do that.

Gardiner is better than Muzzin, so... That's kind of what Babcock has been trying to do all along with Rielly and Gardiner split up.

 

[herman]

https://twitter.com/markhmasters/status/1091058247191150598

Well that's a little unexpected, but again I like it. The whole 4F on the PP thing came at a time when 3-4 defence spots were being taken up by refrigerators and teams simply didn't have enough good offensive defencemen in their line-ups. Now they do, so it shouldn't automatically be 4F and 1D anymore it should just be the 5 best offensive weapons. A guy like Muzzin is better than an option like Brown.

That's how you use the one-timer option. Maybe Nylander and Muzzin on their off-wings after the sort out.