2023 Training Camp

[Fenian24]

Like a bad penny or more accurately a toe fungus Heinen will find a way to stick around. Looking forward to him being here as much as a colonoscopy

 

[RoccoF14]

Like a bad penny or more accurately a toe fungus Heinen will find a way to stick around. Looking forward to him being here as much as a colonoscopy

This Board’s obsession with Danton Heinen is unhealthy.

 

[ON3M4N]

This Board’s obsession with Danton Heinen is unhealthy.

You know what's crazy? Heinen's 76 hits last year would have been good for 6th most among Bruins forwards last year

 

[HumBucker]

You have the reason exactly right. Young players are properly taught that way b/c they use one hand on the stick so much in defending, so you want that to be the dominant hand.

Just always made sense to me, for right-handed people to shoot left. You pick up the stick with your dominant hand on the butt end, the "anchoring end", just like you'd pick up a sword or a rifle or a hammer or any kind of oblong tool or implement of that sort.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Just always made sense to me, for right-handed people to shoot left. You pick up the stick with your dominant hand on the butt end, the "anchoring end", just like you'd pick up a sword or a rifle or a hammer or any kind of oblong tool or implement of that sort.

On the flip side, it’s extremely rare for a right handed person to play golf left handed. Or vice versa.

 

[DaBroons]

True, but my dad and I both played golf right handed and guitar right handed. I played tennis left handed and playing golf right handed gave me a very strong backhand stroke in tennis. I originally played baseball throwing right and later switched to throwing left. I can bat both ways. My left leg and left eye are dominant.

As I stated in another post, so many lefties are ambidextrous or "ambi-sinister," that it didn't seem odd.

 

[BlackFrancis]

On the flip side, it’s extremely rare for a right handed person to play golf left handed. Or vice versa.

I've got two left handed brothers, both right shots playing hockey, that also golf right handed.

They clearly do so out of idolization of their superior, handsome older brother, but it probably has more to do with the handedness of the first stick/club put in their hand as kids, or even the most available one.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

True, but my dad and I both played golf right handed and guitar right handed. I played tennis left handed and playing golf right handed gave me a very strong backhand stroke in tennis. I originally played baseball throwing right and later switched to throwing left. I can bat both ways. My left leg and left eye are dominant.

As I stated in another post, so many lefties are ambidextrous or ambi-sinister, that it didn't seem odd.

Yeah that’s not exactly a common situation.

My kids are both right handed and play hockey right handed. Both got a flat stick when they were little and I just watched which way they naturally wanted to play and went with that.

 

[BlackFrancis]

My kids are both right handed and play hockey right handed. Both got a flat stick when they were little and I just watched which way they naturally wanted to play and went with that.

That's actually pretty clever.

 

[DaBroons]

It’s crazy the growth of self reported natural lefties over the last 100 years. Around 3% in US 100 years ago to 12% today.

That's very interesting. I've read that red heads will disappear in a few hundred years. My great X6 grandfather and his brother were excommunicated from the Quakers in PA for fighting in the revolutionary war, moved to Virginia, and married the twin red-headed grand daughters of a Scottish immigrant. I told my red-headed wife that my preference for red heads was genetic. (My first GF in HS was a red head.)

 

[Donnie Shulzhoffer]

On the flip side, it’s extremely rare for a right handed person to play golf left handed. Or vice versa.

I wouldn't call it extremely rare. Just rare.

Just off the top of my head.

Phil Mickelson
Brian Harmon
Ben Hogan
Jordan Spieth
Henrik Stenson
Me

 

[DaBroons]

Yeah that’s not exactly a common situation.

My kids are both right handed and play hockey right handed. Both got a flat stick when they were little and I just watched which way they naturally wanted to play and went with that.

You were right to let them use whichever way they preferred.

I wouldn't call it extremely rare. Just rare.

Just off the top of my head.

Phil Mickelson
Brian Harmon
Ben Hogan
Jordan Spieth
Henrik Stenson
Me

I seem to recall that hockey players who shoot left often play golf right handed, but I don't know the percentage.

 

[NDiesel]

You were right to let them use whichever way they preferred.


I seem to recall that hockey players who shoot left often play golf right handed, but I don't know the percentage.

In golf your dominant hand should be on the bottom of the club (right handed shoots right in golf), but I notice especially here in Canada that rule isn't as prominent, most people golf whichever way they play hockey since generally hockey is most of our first sport. Therefore lot more lefty golfers are here, whereas in the USA it is really tough to find left handed clubs.

 

[Roll 4 Lines]

True, but my dad and I both played golf right handed and guitar right handed. I played tennis left handed and playing golf right handed gave me a very strong backhand stroke in tennis. I originally played baseball throwing right and later switched to throwing left. I can bat both ways. My left leg and left eye are dominant.

As I stated in another post, so many lefties are ambidextrous or "ambi-sinister," that it didn't seem odd.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!!

Growing up, my a-hole brother and I were the only righties in the neighborhood who actually shot righty.

All the righties shot and left and the lefties shot right.

To me it was the same way I held a baseball bat, but just dropped down.

 

[Roll 4 Lines]

Yeah that’s not exactly a common situation.

My kids are both right handed and play hockey right handed. Both got a flat stick when they were little and I just watched which way they naturally wanted to play and went with that.

That's wise.

When I was a kid, my neighbors had already grown, and their father gave me their old straight blade sticks.

I was never a good hockey player, but I was a real good stick handler from learning with the straight blades.

 

[wintersej]

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!!

Growing up, my a-hole brother and I were the only righties in the neighborhood who actually shot righty.

All the righties shot and left and the lefties shot right.

To me it was the same way I held a baseball bat, but just dropped down.

Yeah I picked up a baseball bat before a hockey stick as well. I don't think that is that uncommon in the US.

 

[Sheppy]

On the flip side, it’s extremely rare for a right handed person to play golf left handed. Or vice versa.

Tyson Nash hits driver left handed and plays irons right handed. I never seen anything like that before in my life.

Irrelevant, I know.

 

[hrdpuk]

I'm an ambidextrous runner but eat right handed

 

[Fenian24]

I'm an ambidextrous runner but eat right handed

I'm an ambidextrous eater

 

[Babajingo]

I'm an ambidextrous runner but eat right handed

I'm an ambisinister runner.

<yes I had to look it up>

 

[Absurdity]

 

[HumBucker]

On the flip side, it’s extremely rare for a right handed person to play golf left handed. Or vice versa.

Really? I don't golf, but at mini-golf I go left, bat left, etc.

 

[MarchysNoseKnows]

Really? I don't golf, but at mini-golf I go left, bat left, etc.

There’s wayyy more baseball players that throw right bat left (look at 3/4 of infielders for that) than there are golfers who are righthanded and golf left. There aren’t very many left handed golfers period.

 

[Drift]

I am a righty.

Throw righty
Bat lefty
Hockey lefty
Was taught to golf righty but always felt weird. Finally got a set of lefty clubs and felt so much better. But when I putt I still do it both ways and honestly forget which way is the correct way when about to do it.

 

[sarge88]

Tyson Nash hits driver left handed and plays irons right handed. I never seen anything like that before in my life.

Irrelevant, I know.

I do everything right handed except putt.

Guessing I putt lefty because I play hockey lefty.