The clip where you were asking how hard the puck was, the player had his ankle broken on that shot. The puck is made of vulcanized rubber, and FROZEN before games, freezing helping to prevent the puck from bouncing. And slapshots can reach over 100 MILES per hour.

@yojustmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Wow… I didn’t know that. Preciate the info💯

@SparePartsBud

2 жыл бұрын

Looking at you Chara and Weber 😳

@Matthew-bx5yf

2 жыл бұрын

Girardi broke his ankle on the first shot block. He stayed on the ice for that sequence and blocked two more shots with a broken ankle. Including another one directly to the ankle. In the back, when the trainer was looking at his ankle, he asked him if he could get back out there. Hockey players have played playoff games with broken legs. I'm not exaggerating. Players have played through really insane injuries.

@danielrivera814

2 жыл бұрын

He should go watch a real live hockey game, the power of the shots are just insanity and you can't really see that on TV/videos. Every time I see a live NHL game I am astonished that it's even legal to do that.

@DrDoom7117

2 жыл бұрын

A puck also weighs just over a third of a pound...

man that martin st. louis clip gets me tearing up every time. such a likeable player and such an amazing moment

@AtticsTV

2 жыл бұрын

Super likable and one of those players that the little guys can look up to. The number of times I got told I was too small to play seriously, and seeing this guy light up the NHL. Amazing.

@mikeumm

Жыл бұрын

I remeber this goal. I'm a Penguins fan through and through. I hate the Rags. But St. Louis is such a class act that you literally couldn't help but feel for him and be happy for him to score this goal. Not a dry eye in the stadium or at home.

The other thing you need to remember is that the cup isn't just some piece of metal made every year. The cup is a genuine historical artifact and getting your name on the cup means forever making your name a part of that historical artifact. The cup is 124 years old and donated to the sport by Lord Stanley of Preston.

Theres nothing better than winning the cup and watching grown men turn into children, after 9 months of hard work. Other sports get happy. NHL players turn into kids with joy.

Been playing hockey for 7 years and tried loads of other sports. In my opinion , if you start from zero, hockey is among the hardest sports to master. Just skating takes a lot of time to get decent at, then stick and puck handling, taking and giving hits without injury, getting a game sense when everything around you is crazy fast. It takes years to even get the basics. Not even gonna mention goalies.. that's just among the craziest things I've ever tried. Great fun!

@danielrivera814

2 жыл бұрын

Same here, been playing for about 3 times a week for about 8 years now, since my son started when he was ~7. Only recently have I been able to start taking control of my game and be able to do things intentionally, it's very difficult. One thing not mentioned in these videos that @JustMatt probably doesn't realize is the sheer endurance/power required do be able to do any of the things he's seeing. Stopping/changing directions at high speed is extremely taxing on your energy level, and hockey has to be played at 100% all the time. And the thing with that is that it drains all the blood from your brain and you start making poor decisions (or none at all sometimes).

@Dabberdans

2 жыл бұрын

one of the best sports out there. my dad started skating with me when i was 2yrs old, bc that is when he started. played up until i needed a major surgery (not from hockey) but can't play contact sports again. miss it every day!

Stanley cup is the hardest trophy to win in all sports. If u have tnt or ESPN…u should watch some playoff hockey. They’re in the semi final round right now. They have games on every night

@jakecarroll5

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he'd be in for a treat watching Tampa go for the 3rd in a row.

@adieuuuu

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakecarroll5 Nah.. not against Colorado

@ronnietornado396

2 жыл бұрын

Finals on now and available for free across many stations for first time this year! Don’t need a cable package to watch. Go Avs!

@Zaximillian

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It is called the Second Season for this reason. Anybody can knock off anybody. The style of play tightens up, and it turns from soccer in a pinball machine to soccer in a phone booth. And, no time limit during overtime. NO time limit. Playoff game winning goals are explosive, and often times it's a grinder that does it because the stars get neutralized. Don't go to the bathroom. Don't make a sandwich. Don't blink.

@aarondrawe2560

2 жыл бұрын

Let's Go Avs!!

Martin St-Louis, an hall of famer, a great human being and now coach of my hometown and favorite NHL Team!

Great video, couple of tearful moments there. I remember that game when Marty St. Louis scored for his mum. Great player and a gentleman.

St. Louis is an all time Tampa Bay great and won us our first cup in 2004 and when he was traded a decade later, he got the biggest farewell I've ever seen in Tampa for a sports player. I watched that mothers day game he played too after his mother passed even if I hated the team he got traded to lol.

In my opinion, the thing that makes hockey stand out as a team sport is the fact that you have essentially, aside from the cost to play the game, the perfect sport. It has every element of all of the other team sports, the skill, the technique, the contact, plus, you can fight. Lacrosse is a close second. They just do not travel at the same speed as hockey players do.

I love how the first NHL I saw you do you were like "aight, I guess let's watch this." And now you're fully invested in ice hockey and the beauty of it.

Most magical hockey thing for me as a St. Louis kid was watching the St. Louis Blues finally hoist a cup in 2019. Blues were regularly in the playoffs, and choke after choke after choke. 2018/2019 season they were dead last. Teammates fighting each other during practice. Season was a catastrophic nightmare. Then middle of the season they got a new coach, then changed goalies, and started winning, gutsy win after gutsy win to make they playoffs. Incredible, tough series wins all through the playoffs all the way to the final against Boston. A rematch of our last cup appearance almost 50 years earlier where they obliterated us. Went all the way to game 7 and St. Louis finally won. Magical moment for the city. They were watching the away game in enterprise, Busch, everywhere. And the madness in the city to finally see our team win was special. Easily my favorite sport moment of all time. Add in the storyline with Layla (Google it, great story)

"This is like poetry in motion" At that moment he understood hockey.

The puck is vulcanized rubber. Like what you find on the back end of a semi trailer. It's around 5 1/2 ounces, and are usually kept really cold for the game. (makes em harder too). They can travel in excess of 100mph. I've eaten them off the shoulder, and had a mean streaking bruise on my shoulder, through the chest protector. Just like baseball, if you catch the puck and it hits your fingertips, it hurts like crazy and they're probably numb for the rest of the night. I've cracked bones, broken bones, I've had a couple cages on my goalie mask break or bend from getting a clapper to the head. Which is its own danger itself. You can get pretty fucked up from getting hit on a hard shot. Dudes lose teeth, break orbital bones, ankles, leg bones, etc blocking shots. And the skaters who aren't wearing as much gear as me, are even braver for laying down to block shots. The poetry in motion is "Flow" that's the word you're searching for. Things go, "tic tac toe" "a,b,c". a line of 3 players gets used to each other and it just clicks. Coaches sometimes go crazy trying to get a combination of players to flow. But once you have it, its like you say. Looks like it was prescripted, and 3/4 of the time it's not. There are set plays, but most of this is poetry in motion for sure. They're kinda winging it. Just like dudes hit the batting cages, playing little league baseball, growing up always working on their hitting. Other dudes at the park sundown, still working on his 3 pointer. These dudes have a section of the garage they shot at, a wooden net their dad made up, etc. They learned where to clap the ice before the puck to get that stick to bend and snap back at the right part of the swing. The sticks are carbon fiber now, so they got that hard spring flex to them. As a goalie I can say is you got these dudes constantly spending off time shooting at things. Pregame or during practice dudes will pick one of those metal brackets that holds the glass up, and shoot at it. Dudes will shoot at the coaches coffee on the boards, all that. Snipers who constantly work at sniping. I think the biggest thing to take from all these hockey videos you've watched is... -The very best thing about this sport is the fact that you CANNOT win with ONE line. You NEED the team effort. NOBODY can skate for 20 minutes each period. You need the enforcers, the defense geniuses to shut down the stars, and so on. It's a TEAM effort to win that Stanley Cup.

@andersborum9267

2 жыл бұрын

As a player primarily playing D (because of backwards skating skills and clappers), thank you for doing your part as a goalie. And yes, it's true about spending hours and hours off ice to practice all those shots that are put on goal, including the dangerous clappers.

he laughed at the concentration of a brain surgeon part, but it’s true look at any goalie and the amount of focus and concentration needed, its a game of inches and 1 small mistake could change everything, it’s not like basketball where players can just leave or swap teams, lots of players go entire careers without winning the cup some only have 1 or 2 chances and never get back to the finals again, hockey is more of a team game then basketball, ya you have players like McDavid and MacKinnon that can 1 vs 4 and still score but normally it takes a team to score and it definitely takes a good team to win, if your looking for good entertaining hockey to watch start with playoff highlights or just games they are the most intense, rivalries like the battle of Alberta or Battle of Pennsylvania are also great, love the reactions keep it up 👍

@casualcausalityy

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah as a goalie, once the puck drops you NEVER take your eyes off it. It's a level of concentration I've rarely used in any other parts of my life

@jakecarroll5

2 жыл бұрын

@@casualcausalityy Yeah goalies are like drummers a different breed lol. Crazy tennis ball against a wall drill always is fascinating to watch as a winger.

@jeffvideau

2 жыл бұрын

Even playing the game aside, you have to have that concentration or you’re going to get hurt out there. So much speed/force/power out there. Look how many dudes have been blown up because they didn’t have their head up. Everyone on the ice has to be locked in or their team suffers and they risk serious bodily harm.

@joshs8685

2 жыл бұрын

I think the stakes might be a little higher for a brain surgeon ... its close though.

@simplyskrypt3914

2 жыл бұрын

@@joshs8685 the stakes are higher for the surgeon but the consequences of a slight mistake can be just as costly for the hockey player, between the razor shoes, the 6 foot spear and zooming at 25mph on ice

The puck is really hard, its frozen rubber and the guy that shot the puck won the hardest shot a few times so it could break your foot easily

the only moment i can think of that comes close to Marty StLouis scoring that goal was Clay Millican getting his first ever NHRA top fuel win on fathers day, right after his son died in a motorcycle accident, and that morning in the pits a fan came up and gave him a childs motocross chest pad that Clay's son had signed for the fans son (he was a motocross racer and pro monster truck driver)

The bit about 'the concentration of a brain surgeon' is because they are moving at high speeds and stickhandling the puck and avoiding checks etc. Yes, you can briefly grab the puck and toss it. You can NOT toss it to a team-mate, which is why you will see Crosby tap the puck with his stick so it is a legal play.

Great reaction. Hockey really is an amazing sport. Watch NHL Chaos in front of net, it’s insane

If you catch the puck with your hand in hockey you can bring it to yourself, but you can't make a pass to another player. In the video Crosby took the puck to himself before giving the pass, so it was legal and beautiful lol

@joer8854

2 жыл бұрын

and you can't close your hand on it. You can't direct the puck to yourself but you can't pass it with your hand or close the hand around it.

Hockey players are like modern day gladiators. Most of them are tougher than any athlete in the world by far ! A guy took a skate to the face , got 75 stitches and returned to the game

As someone who has played hockey there entire life. I would describe hockey as beautifully controlled chaos

Goalies have two gloves: one catches and one holds the goalies stick and extends the block. The goalie can do anything to stop the puck from crossing the line.

Баскетбол, Хоккей и Американский футбол! Три вида командного спорта в которых я действительно влюблён!

@user-wc2rc3xn4j

Жыл бұрын

For starters, I'll give you a suggestion about the coolest teams in history. NBA - Magic, MJ, Bird, The Dream, Kareem. NHL - Ovechkin, Lemieux, Jagr, Orr, Bourque. Tretyak goalie.

"wait..how hard is the puck?" 😅😅 Hard as fook mate 😅😅

A hockey puck is hard rubber, but when your cold and the puck gets cold its like a rock and hurts even worse, plus NHL players are shooting it anywhere from 80-108mph which is insane.

you rly should react to Sidney Crosby Highlights and then after you’re done with that, you should react to “McDavid vs Crosby: Battle of Gods” there is pt 1 and pt 2, i rly recommend

Bro I appreciate this reaction. Your genuine interest/respect of the video makes for a good watch. Got a subscriber in me. Keep working bro. Your video on the code just started in the background. I can’t grow no beard no cap. Respect.

There are a lot of parallels between basketball and hockey if you look close enough. Tip ins are common off rebounds. Power forwards in hockey are assets because they can crash the net just like a power forward in the paint. You just can't set foot into the goalie's paint, called the crease. Alley oops? Absolutely. Saucer passes to someone crashing the net is beautiful teamwork. Triangle offense? In hockey, we have something similar called "cycling down low" near the opposing goal line. In basketball, you've got three point shooters. In hockey, you've got snipers. In basketball, if you're deep, you've got a bench mob. In hockey, you've got an energy line, usually the third line of forwards, and if you've got a good THIRD line, you're a Cup contender. In a hockey power play, there are set formations, and it looks a lot like basketball's half court ball movement. The defensemen become much like point guards.

The puck can break bones. Can knockout teeth. Similar to a baseball

@seniormale

2 жыл бұрын

and it is frozen to reduce any bounce..

Most hits were legal and most playes get up but you don't see that. NHL players don't go down or stay down unless they are KO or really hurt (ie. need a stretcher or need to be carried off ice) Hockey players most common injuries are stiches and/or losing teeth otherwise known as 'spitting chicklets'. Both of these injuries rarely result from that player missing their next shift! Furthermore, if broken bones result (face, nose jaw...) that player will usualky come back for their next shift, wearing a facemask or visor. If they broken bones in ryheir feet or legs, they will keep playing if at all humanly or inhumanly possible - lots of known instances of broken feet/legs where the player came back to finish game/series. Even broken ribs with punctured lung (D Krejci) and ruptured disks in spine (J Quick) haven't kept them out of the game or those playoffs. NHLl players are approximately 20% smaller than NFL players but theNHL hits are 17% harder than NFL and that does not factor in landing on ice nor the slighter padding worn by NHL players for increased mobility required. Legal Hits Head cannot be principle and/ or first point of contact Hip Checks Hip contact must be above knee Usually if a dirty hit occurs fight, aka ' the code' usually results - see 'the brawl in hockeytown' This type of physically brutal hockey is known as 'Canadian Hockey'. In the world of hockey (ie IIHF and Olympics) Canada has more than twice as many wind/medals than any other country, with Russia being the next closest. For the NHL, almost 50% of all players are still Canadian (down from over 90+% in the last 30yrs). So despite the NHL team name being US, most players on those teams are Canadian and it is generally known that, to win the Stanley Cup - it takes Canadian Players! Ice Hockey IS Canada's Official Winter Sport, while Lacrose is Canada's Official Summer sport. Ice Hockey, this modern version of any combination and number of vaguely similar stick/ball games, is Canadian. Hence, Canada invented both ice hockey and basketball. As a Canadian hockey player, you can have basketball! Ice Hockey Rules, Canada Dominates!

I started skating when I was 3 years old I started playing hockey at 6 Even at that age you can see that some people have the talent, but it wasn't me

Great reaction, I'd recommend the Mic'd Up compilations and 14 minutes of pissed off goalies. Both are very entertaining

@Dabberdans

2 жыл бұрын

mic'd up hockey in general is probably some of the funny shit you'll hear🤣

Puck is vulcanized rubber that is frozen before the games. It’s the best live sport ever. You get the same sort of skills you see in the nba but with the brutality of nfl/ufc. With an 82 game season. And all playoffs are best of 7. 3 rounds and then the Stanley cup playoffs

He's says concentration of a brain surgeon because if your not focused the 6 once puck can be moving at 105 mph. It can go from across the ice to your face in half a second, which will easily shatter bones teeth anything it hits.

When the puck is in mid air you can grab it then drop it to the ground but you can not through it

Hockey has actually been called a ballet demolition derby.

The PUCK is vulcanized rubber, FROZEN(yes it is frozen so it slides better), travels at an AVERAGE speed of 85-90mph, with Slap Shots that can exceed 100mph.

Please go watch a nhl game in person. Pick middle corner seats, and enjoy the show. Like you said, it’s poetry in motion

The clip where he caught the puck then dropped it to himself is totally legal you just aren’t allowed to carry it or toss it to another teammate but you can catch it if it’s in the air if you immediately drop it to the ice

Martin St.louis, the one who lost his mother a day before mother's day just become GM of the montreal canadians

You can touch the puck but you can’t hold it; it’s all depending on how long you have it, you can really only tap it with your hand, you can’t get a goal like that.

@yojustmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Gotcha gotcha

@robkisler644

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, you can catch it but you have to put it into play immediately, and you cannot hand-pass to another player

If you ever held a puck in ur hand, u just know it hurts. Hold it against ur head and feel it hitting you at 80-100 mph

"how hard is the puck?" its about as hard as a rock or a brick 🤣

The part where Crosby grabbed the puck with his hand and you were surprised he’s you can do that but you have to pass it down to your own possession and cannot pass it to another player and cannot close your hand on the puck

I play this as a ritual before i go play in my matches. But in my beer league I still see some amazing plays happen. But no ice rink near me. I get the joy of being a goalie for Ball Hockey

13:34 The puck is super hard like a cement, and if someone is taking a slap shot and hitting the puck it’ll go between 80-105 mph, i So if the puck hits your ankle, your ankle is most likely broken

Bro you gotta pause it. those are the best parts of your videos, I love seeing you react to these crazy plays

As soon as u brought up the grenades, I was hooked...😅

Hockey is graceful, elegant, sleek, brutal, punishing and bloody. A lot of these guys have faces more twisted than your typical MMA fighter. It is a beautiful game.

NFL-13mins of action (gameplay snap of the ball til the ref blows the whistle) in a typical game. MLB-14 mins of action (gameplay-start of windup til ump calls play dead). NBA-they play 48 mins (not even 1 hour lol along with approx 1mil timeouts). NHL-60 mins of gameplay, stopped time and no out of bounds for players to avoid contact. Mans game along with UFC and Boxing

Best game in the planet played by the women and men who have all the qualities shown here.

Watching this live and good stuff

NOW PART 2

@yojustmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Bet

It’s long but a really great video...Watch the Names on the Cup.

@yojustmatt

2 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it but I’m not that interested to watch it tbh

I certainly appreciate that you are a basket all fan but understand, we Canadians invented basketball only so that we would have something to do when the ponds thawed

With the comparison of hockey and ballet you're really not far off because a lot of NHL players do figure skating which is essentially ballet on ice and they do it to get better edge control of their skates to have more grace, flow and smoothness in their skating.

Martin St. Louis was undrafted due to his size, he was told he was too small for the NHL. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall Of Fame in 2018, played 16 seasons, 1,134 games, had 391 goals, 642 assists, 1,033 points in the NHL. He won the Stanley Cup with the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2004.

Lots of professional hockey players have practiced things like ballet and figure skating to work on body control and different techniques to improve their game.

You Should watch players doing the “Michigan Goal”

Chris Progner got killed by a puck to the chest. They revived him thankfully. Look up jacques plante he invented the goalie mask because before the goaltenders hag barely any protection.

This is the video I judge a KZreadr by. This will show whether you “get it”. I’m subscribed.

You should react to "Hockey Is More Than Just A Game, It's An All Out Battle". It's my favorite playoffs hype video come April.

@lelouchvibritannia4028

2 жыл бұрын

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you can catch the puck out of the air for a second to drop it to yourself, if you make a pass with your hand the play will be stopped. I recommend you look at some Sedin twin highlights, if you want to see more "poetry in motion"

Yes your allowed to touch the puck with your hand. You are not allowed to close your hand on the puck nor are you allowed to pass the puck with your hand outside your D-zone. But there are in fact times when you must play the puck with your hand. Because you are not allowed to play the puck with the stick above shoulder height.

You can touch the puck with your hand as long as you don't throw it or really redirect it.

that last clip was on Mothers Day

9:04 the word you looking for is profound. and you right!

Check out this amazing story. The Debut of Austin Mathews.

@hellomotoCoop

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

it is a very beautiful sport

A puck is vulcanized rubber. Very Hard! Also coming at you at an average of 85-90 miles per hour.😬

You should check out "kucherov no move goals" that is insane

The guy they showed who lost his mom is Martin St Louis and he is currently the coach of the Montreal Canadiens

@yojustmatt

2 жыл бұрын

Much respect to him fr

Love your vids and I'm trying to deal with excessive pausing, but it's hard. 😁

a puck is six ounces heavy of pure hard rubber and slapshot often go up to 90-95 mph the hardest shot ever recorded was 108 by zdeno chara

Bro that puck hard asf 😩😂 Pause

React to sidney crosby highlights

No you can't do that, THAT is called closing your hand on the puck and anyone but the goalie gets a penalty for it... Well anyone but the goalie and Cindy Crosby. The Dave Boland goal is the second goal in 17 seconds of the Stanley Cup Final. Boston was up 1 with a minute left in the game, if they win there is a game 7 in Chicago. Brian Bickle scored to tie the game then Boland won the game and the Cup for the Blackhawks.

A hockey puck is as hard as a rock it may be rubber but that shit stings😂

Slap shots can be over 100mph

You wanna see something in hockey youve never seen? Watch trevor zegras highlights from this season he was a rookie this year for the anaheim ducks

You really had to say you feel bad for the others teams fans, right when my team lost the cup. almost 10 years later im still salty

Matt you still gotta do a video where you have someone react to this!

This same uploader, NeutralZoneHD made a video called Biggest Hits Ever Seen in the NHL. You should watch thar one. It's great

the puck is basically a rock, frozen condensed rubber

I can catch the puck but you cant pass it to a teammate only to yourself or an opponent or else itd be a hand pass. So dropping it to yourself is perfectly fine.

The puck is vulcanized rubber. About as hard as a baseball or lacross ball. Plus it moves at about 80+ mph when shot

The Puck is harder than a baseball

Get somebody to react to this for sure

Title is quite funny to me because most nhl teams are in the USA lmao

The average shot of a defence man is 85-90 kmh, hardest shot is in the 105

I doubt there is one NHL player who is as strong as a small NFL linebacker, never mind linemen. That said, I believe it demands a higher level of skill than other sports.

hey bro I'm canadian its like church and hell ya it's a man's game

8:55 ;p truth

You should check out a video of the best redirects. Amazing shit.

The skillset required to play in the NHL is insane. You have to start real young to develop enough to make it. Lets put it this way. Unlike othersports going to play division 1 college hockey means you werent good enough to play in the NHL with a few exceptions. Scouts dont prioritize college hockey. Not 100% of the time but most cases. College players get drafted far less then players that play in leagues like the OHL and QMJHL where players arent even 18 yet who are younger but further developed and skilled.

nice reaction should react to '' The dominator'' Dominik Hasek highlights . dude change tha goaltending game lol

@catherinelynnfraser2001

2 жыл бұрын

After the Nagano Olympics the Czech Republic mounted an Opera featuring Dominic as a god character!

@irvinepoker3187

2 жыл бұрын

@@catherinelynnfraser2001 really? lol wow he won czech the gold that year too

The puck is frozen and it sits on the ice

6 ounces flying up to 100mph

The video is inspiring but so you know, those are nowhere near the best hockey clips. The best vids are protected by the NHL and Olympic rights holders, so there is so much more for you to experience. If you can attend a live NHL Playoff game, players hold nothing back, the intensity is amazing and the crowds go nuts.