Confirmed with Link: Bobby Ryan takes on a couple of beerleague plugs over $100 bucks

[BonkTastic]

I could beat Ryan in a race just saying.

Maybe in a 3-legged race at a traveling pop-up carnival after Bobby's already 9 drinks in, sure.

I have a hard time believing any more than 1% of the posters here could even come close to Brad Marsh in a skate, let alone an average skater. Maybe BondraTime. He's probably the ringer in HFSens. The rest of us would come off looking like ADHD 3rd graders in a math contest with Steven Hawking.

 

[Othello*]

Beating a nhl player who's a below average skater in a race is nothing special.

 

[Harbinger]

"I can make it rain right now."

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Do some of you know how to skate? I aint no expert myself whatsoever but i have friends who post timings similar to stats you see in 1st couple rounds of speed competition.

Skating in a straight line vs bobby an average fan, who's fast and can skate, wouldn't be out of the question.

obviously turning, agility and what not completely diff altogether.

 

[PoutineSp00nZ]

Beating a nhl player who's a below average skater in a race is nothing special.

Whatever makes you feel special.

 

[danielpalfredsson]

They should have a challenge where an NHL player has to sit at a computer with a veteran HF Poster and try to keep up with them as they make absurd trade proposals and insult players.

We can all laugh at Bobby as he chicken pecks on the keyboard and takes far too long to write "bobby ryan+2nd for Giroux+5th"

 

[Uchiha]

That guy who was doing the board drill was pathetic.

 

[Indrew]

Beating a nhl player who's a below average skater in a race is nothing special.

You are the worst. Just awful.

These videos make you appreciate the difference between a professional and Joe Schmo.

 

[Erik Alfredsson]

Its totally possible. Theres plenty of people who suck at hockey and arent pros but can skate really fast. There are some NHL players who arent great when it comes to speed either. Mark Stone for example was ALWAYS the slowest player on every team he played on before the NHL. He did improve but its possible to make the NHL and be a slow skater or have non pros be faster

Again, he is not faster than a NHL player.

 

[BloodRedArmy]

This would be better if he had anything resembling a personality

Are you kidding? Take a whirl on the internet, buddy... Bobby is Mr. Personality. Hilarious dude.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Pros vs. Joes was actually a fun and hilarious show. A good amount of the Joes were semi talented athletes too and still got absolutely destroyed by pro athletes.

 

[Stylizer1]

These are awesome.
I just wish it was Bobby vs Hfboarders though

I wish it was Ryan VS NHLers.

 

[L'Aveuglette]

Why does the guy in the "board work" video have his face blurred out?

Seems pretty dumb if they had filmed the whole thing without ever asking if they had permission to show his face....

 

[L'Aveuglette]

I wish it was Ryan VS NHLers.

We've already seen plenty of that this year.

 

[umma gumma]

i wish it was ryan vs nhlers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQI0E1WCLMU

 

[Stylizer1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQI0E1WCLMU

Ryan has sucked or has been average since he's come here.

 

[ReginKarlssonLehner]

Ryan has sucked or has been average since he's come here.

I don't agree. He's been elite in stretches but a better conclusion is: Ryan has had an average body of work every year due to elite peaks and horrendous troughs.

Which makes me wonder what's worse, lol.

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Ryan has sucked or has been average since he's come here.

Cool. You should talk about that in the dedicated Ryan thread instead.

 

[Benjamin]

If thats how strong Ryan is compared to an average in shape person, think about how strong the average NHLer is compared to Ryan!

 

[NyQuil]

They should have a challenge where an NHL player has to sit at a computer with a veteran HF Poster and try to keep up with them as they make absurd trade proposals and insult players.

We can all laugh at Bobby as he chicken pecks on the keyboard and takes far too long to write "bobby ryan+2nd for Giroux+5th"

I applaud this line of thinking.

 

[Canadian Time]

Beating a nhl player who's a below average skater in a race is nothing special.

I'll sponsor you on the condition that I can post the ensuing video anywhere I want.

 

[slamigo]

The guy goes out of his way to do something fun and all these angry keyboard malcontents just pile on the garbage comments. Lighten up folks.

 

[Benjamin]

The guy goes out of his way to do something fun and all these angry keyboard malcontents just pile on the garbage comments. Lighten up folks.

Wow so ignorant.

 

[jbeck5]

He is not faster than an NHL player.

What a silly thing to say.

There's more to making the nhl than being a fast skater. There are many fast skaters that are no where near the NHL because they aren't good at much else.

Especially slower nhl players. Anyone who's played decent level hockey has played with some speedsters. They're faster than the big slow hulking players in the NHL.

 

[jbeck5]

Maybe in a 3-legged race at a traveling pop-up carnival after Bobby's already 9 drinks in, sure.

I have a hard time believing any more than 1% of the posters here could even come close to Brad Marsh in a skate, let alone an average skater. Maybe BondraTime. He's probably the ringer in HFSens. The rest of us would come off looking like ADHD 3rd graders in a math contest with Steven Hawking.

I don't think it's that rare that a poster played decently high level competitive or junior hockey and still have their young legs. In which case winning a race against a david legwand type skater doesn't seem so impossible. They aren't saying they're smarter or better. They're just picking a player's weakest link (and perhaps the posters strongest skill) and comparing them.

Just like i don't doubt a poster could possibly have better dangles than chris phillips...or a better shot than scott gomez...or a better fighter than filatov. It just doesn't seem like that hard to believe imo.

Obviously it isn't that likely, however i disagree with the line of thinking of "because you are not in the NHL you can't be better at one particular skill than a player's weakest link"

There are literally thousands of faster skaters that are not in the NHL than the slowest NHL skaters.