From: simpson@bnr.ca (Scott Simpson)
Subject: Re: Right/left
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 15:33:32 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.134851.11686@sulo.otol.fi> pode@sulo.otol.fi (Janne Potila) writes:
>
>Has anyone made any research about the amount of players keeping 
>right/left hand down on stick. I think the majority plays left hand 
>down. But somehow it seems to me that "the rights" are in general 
>better players than "the lefts". I was thinking for example Lemieux, 
>Yzerman, Ciccarelli, Selanne, Kurri, Sundin. 
>
>So, if someone has made comparisons between the number of "the rights" 
>in the whole league and on the other hand the number of them on top 
>10/50/100 scorers, I would like to see them. That might prove my idea 
>totally wrong.
>
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Well, here's the pertinents (I took Andrew Scott's Week 15 price list to get
the top 100 as I don't have anything more current.  I got the shoots right/
left info. from the Official Guide and Record Book, 1992-93.  Summaries at
the end...)

Player               Team   Shoots
------               ----   ------
Mario Lemieux        PIT    Right
Pat LaFontaine       BUF    Right
Adam Oates           BOS    Right
Mark Recchi          PHI    Left
Pavel Bure           VAN    Left
Pierre Turgeon       NYI    Left
Teemu Selanne        WPG    Right
Alexander Mogilny    BUF    Left
Doug Gilmour         TOR    Left
Kevin Stevens        PIT    Left
Steve Yzerman        DET    Right
Luc Robitaille       LA     Left
Mats Sundin          QUE    Right
Jeremy Roenick       CHI    Right
Mark Messier         NYR    Left
Jari Kurri           LA     Right
Joe Sakic            QUE    Left
Joe Juneau           BOS    Right
Craig Janney         STL    Left
Brett Hull           STL    Right
Kirk Muller          MTL    Left
Stephan Lebeau       MTL    Right
Rick Tocchet         PIT    Right
Vincent Damphousse   MTL    Left
Brian Bradley        TB     Right
Ron Francis          PIT    Left
Dave Andreychuk      BUF    Right
Geoff Courtnall      VAN    Left
Dale Hawerchuk       BUF    Left
Theoren Fleury       CGY    Right
Greg Adams           VAN    Left
Steve Duchesne       QUE    Left
Phil Housley         WPG    Left
Paul Coffey          LA     Left
Dino Ciccarelli      DET    Right
Jaromir Jagr         PIT    Left
Peter Bondra         WSH    Left
Steve Larmer         CHI    Left
Rod Brind'Amour      PHI    Left
Russ Courtnall       MIN    Right
Mike Ricci           QUE    Left
Owen Nolan           QUE    Right
Claude Lemieux       NJ     Right
Mike Ridley          WSH    Left
Larry Murphy         PIT    Right
Mike Modano          MIN    Left
Jeff Brown           STL    Right
Nelson Emerson       STL    Right
Brian Bellows        MTL    Right
Sergei Makarov       CGY    Left
Dale Hunter          WSH    Left
Dmitri Kvartalnov    BOS    Left
Chris Chelios        CHI    Right
Al Iafrate           WSH    Left
Kelly Kisio          SJ     Right
Mike Donnelly        LA     Left
Cliff Ronning        VAN    Left
Brendan Shanahan     STL    Right
Petr Nedved          VAN    Left
Mike Keane           MTL    Right
Jimmy Carson         DET    Right
Mike Gartner         NYR    Right
Bernie Nicholls      NJ     Right
Brent Fedyk          PHI    Right
Joe Nieuwendyk       CGY    Left
Tony Granato         LA     Right
Trevor Linden        VAN    Right
Sergei Fedorov       DET    Left
Darren Turcotte      NYR    Left
Scott Young          QUE    Right
Nikolai Borschevsky  TOR    Left
Robert Reichel       CGY    Left
Michal Pivonka       WSH    Left
Pat Verbeek          HFD    Right
Dave Gagner          MIN    Left
Steve Chiasson       DET    Left
Derek King           NYI    Left
Alexei Zhamnov       WPG    Left
Geoff Sanderson      HFD    Left
Ray Bourque          BOS    Left
Eric Lindros         PHI    Right
Ray Sheppard         DET    Right
Gary Suter           CGY    Left
Benoit Hogue         NYI    Left
Jeff Norton          NYI    Left
Tony Amonte          NYR    Left
Mathieu Schneider    MTL    Left
Denis Savard         MTL    Right
Shawn McEachern      PIT    Left
Kevin Hatcher        WSH    Right
Ulf Dahlen           MIN    Left
Anatoli Semenov      VAN    Left
Andrei Kovalenko     QUE    Left
Glenn Anderson       TOR    Left
Adam Graves          NYR    Left
Darrin Shannon       WPG    Left
Zarley Zalapski      HFD    Left
John Cullen          TOR    Right
Sergei Nemchinov     NYR    Left
Joe Mullen           PIT    Right

So, all this means that:

    1-5:     3R  -   2L
    1-10:    6L  -   4R
    1-20:   10L  -  10R
    1-50:   26L  -  24R
    1-100:  59L  -  41R

So, what does this mean?  Nothing, I suppose.  But them's the facts.


Later,
Me.
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