Do you not understand that you keep using rarely and rarely is all it takes to hit top speed once , you know when a Dmen gets caught and they skate their guts out on the backcheck? Either way, you don’t want to learn and that is Ok, carry on.
And guess what, if they’re skating their hardest on the backcheck chances are they’ve already been expending energy on that shift and in that game. They aren’t gonna reach their top speed in that situation. I promise he can beat that speed first try if we rented some ice out for him and asked him to.
And at the end of the day, regardless of whether that is truly representative of his top speed, max speed is a terrible way of evaluating his overall skating or if he’s lost a step.
Maybe he’s lost a little mobility and isn’t turning as well, maybe his acceleration isn’t as good, maybe he’s lost a little quickness in tight spaces, maybe he’s not covering as much ice laterally, maybe his backwards skating has slowed down a bit and he’s getting burnt a little more.
All of those things could be true and he could still be getting to similar or maybe even slightly better max speeds once he gets going fully. All different aspects of skating require different mechanics and can vary differently.
There’s a reason when they do on ice testing at combine’s they don’t just have them skate down the ice once to see their max speed and then send them off.
Its not me not wanting to learn, you’ve yet to make a slightly valuable point and its you drawing a stupid and unreasonable conclusion off of the smallest piece of data.
