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Related: About this forumBest athletes, teams-wise - Hockey or Basketball or Soccer or American football or Rugby?
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Same basic team concept, but totally different skills required. Hockey requires constant line changes to keep the game movings, but basketball requires a lot more endurance over the course of the game. Playing BB was a challenge, but skating with a stick was pretty damn physically exhausting....
bottomofthehill
(8,689 posts)The Jane eye coordination of baseball players, the strength of football players (not linemen), the endurance of basketball and soccer players. A hockey player is an amazing athlete
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)bottomofthehill
(8,689 posts)With it with out the boards getting her buy a 200 pound guy moving at a high rate of speed sucks.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)And they are frequent. No wonder you need bench time after 3 minutes of action....
bottomofthehill
(8,689 posts)A two minute shift was a long time, in the NHL, a minute is too long.
OneBlueDotS-Carolina
(1,426 posts)Most are under 50 seconds...defense a touch longer, depends on the pace of the game...stay out too long, hard to recover.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)I did not realize that changes happen that frequently....I thought it was 2-3 max.
OneBlueDotS-Carolina
(1,426 posts)caraher
(6,301 posts)Under 1 minute is common at the highest level; as you move down the food chain into recreational hockey, shifts get longer.
I remember one team I was on (recreational) we had an "extra" forward (that is, we had I think two full lines plus one forward) and I suggested that the oldest guy, the most overweight guy and I (also on the older end) just share left wing for the whole game. We did, I think all of us got a point or two because we skated closer to our top speed than we would have skating every other shift.
The next week, same situation. But the big guy balked, saying, "But I'm getting less ice time." Well, when the last 60 seconds of your shift consists of standing around by the boards too gassed to move, what's the point of "ice time?" His shifts often ran long in part because he wasn't fast enough to change on the fly! Anyway, that ended what I thought was a very effective experiment.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)Never played to your level, not even close. My primary experience was maintaining ice balance while trying to handle the puck in make up games.
dem4decades
(11,794 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)You have to have endurance to play soccer....no line changes for you! I ought to change my OP to add soccer and American football....that would interesting!
dem4decades
(11,794 posts)Kyle Rote Jr, a soccer player, always won, at least that's how I remember it.
The bowlers and race car drivers didn't fare so well. Lol
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)socially important as John Carlos and Tommie Smith's accomplishments in '68.
unc70
(6,307 posts)In other words, brutal.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)It's about speed of contact. Don't know much about lacrosse, but it seems like a turf version of hockey.
unc70
(6,307 posts)Running full speed, hitting with big sticks, full contact. You will have to judge for yourself how it compares with the other sports.
Right now is a good time to see good lacrosse competition. This weekend is the NCAA Final Four in men's and women's lacrosse. The ESPN networks and apps have full coverage starting at noon Friday and Saturday.
FYI field hockey is the turf version of hockey.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,619 posts)You played or you didn't. Great athletes...even better partiers.
bluedigger
(17,137 posts)Soccer is out due to lack of upper body use (other than the occasional header), and football wins for strength. Don't know enough about rugby to fairly judge, but it seems like it's a blend of the others. Baseball wins for hand eye coordination.