Tag: What percentage of NHL players are left handed?

  • Is Alex Ovechkin right or left handed?

    [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#00BCD4″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]Right-handed[/mks_pullquote] What percentage of NHL players are left-handed? In the 2017-18 NHL season, 225 of 373 Canadian-born players shoot left-handed according to a search on Hockey Reference. That’s slightly more than 60 percent. For American-born players, the number drops to…

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  • Why do most hockey players play left handed?

    [mks_pullquote align=”left” width=”300″ size=”20″ bg_color=”#00BCD4″ txt_color=”#ffffff”]”I wish I had a good reason for why that is,” said Mike Mountain, director of sticks and blades at Van Nuys-based Easton Sports. “But the reason there are more left-shot players in the NHL is because there are more…

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