The way Zdeno Chara saw it, goalies did not track pucks off black-taped sticks as well as they did with white. Was he right? FlutoShinzawa put the hypothesis to the test.
There is no consensus explanation as to why players prefer one over the other. In most cases, it is the color they have used since they first graduated from pushing milk cartons.Leon Draisaitl and Connor McDavid faced 1,457 shots in 2022-23. On each occasion, this year’s Vezina Trophy favorite had to juggle multiple factors: a shooter’s location, his release, traffic in front, whether the attacker was a righty or lefty, the presence of other threats.
The same concept, then, could apply to the ice. The eye may not necessarily distinguish a black puck on black tape. Conversely, the eye will more easily identify the outline of the puck on white tape. The sport’s best scorers combine a blend of power, speed, accuracy, deception and determination. Isolating a single trait, then, is a fool’s errand. Then there’s luck: the puck that clangs off three bodies before settling into the net.“Because it’s happening so fast, the goalkeepers are probably using many other tools or cues they’ve learned to apply, such as the movement of the stick even before it hits the puck,” Gaier said.
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