Hockey is a weird one to me. My first experience with anything close to hockey was one Christmas, my dad cut the bottom of a Christmas tree, and thinking that it looked like a hockey puck, I grabbed a broom and pretended it was a hockey stick, put on my inline skates, and had fun in the driveway for hours. I was around seven years old at the time and had already played golf for several years (right handed) but held the broom like a left-handed hockey stick. I asked my parents for a street hockey stick that Christmas and received a left-handed stick. That's how I came to shoot left in hockey. Playing goaltender is a little weird to me as well, because I catch right, but because you're supposed to handle the puck with your stick hand on top and glove hand on bottom, it's as if you're shooting right, so it's completely backwards. Playing softball growing up, I was a switch hitter early on, and actually made better contact as a right-handed hitter, but abandoned trying to bat that way because batting left handed feels way more comfortable. Also, I was left eye dominant, which is why, regarding another topic brought up, I shoot a rifle, shotgun, handgun, and bow all left handed. I have keratoconus so I'm now right eye dominant, but I still shoot left handed. I just see at only about 20/50 out of my left eye even with my contact lenses in.