Confirmed with Link: At Long Last: BUF signs Ryan Johnson to a 2-year ELC

[Ehran]

Most lefties, shoot right in hockey. Generally harder to find. I'm sure some righties do shoot right but it is somewhat rare. I think the question is whether the fact he is left-handed makes more effective on his "natural" right side. Probably not.

I'm a rightie that shoots (or used to back when I actually played) right-handed.

Is it really odd that I'm odd?

 

[Chainshot]

I'm a rightie that shoots (or used to back when I actually played) right-handed.

Is it really odd that I'm odd?

Oddly enough...

 

[dotcommunism]

I think Americans generally tend to shoot on the side of the dominant hand more often than other players. A lot of commonly speculated reasons (i.e. that Americans tend to start later so they don't necessarily need to keep their dominant hand at the top of the stick to control it) don't necessarily apply here because of Johnson's background, though. On the other hand, it looks like his dad is also a left-handed shot, so if he's also a lefty who shoots left then it's possible that his son chose to do the same.

 

[Dingo44]

I'm a rightie that shoots (or used to back when I actually played) right-handed.

Is it really odd that I'm odd?

I'm a righty that shoots right but when I started playing street hockey when I was like 4 I was using sticks from the kid down the street and he's left handed and had right-shooting sticks. But I also golf right so it makes sense to me.

 

[Der Jaeger]

How come he signed his contract left-handed if he shoots left-handed? Rare.

Never should've signed him.....

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I'm a rightie that shoots (or used to back when I actually played) right-handed.

Is it really odd that I'm odd?

I’m ambidextrous in everything except for writing. That I’m strictly a righty, but that’s because I wasn’t allowed to write with the devil’s hand.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

I'm right handed, I shoot right, golf right, bat left handed, shoot pistols left handed due to left eye dominance, shoot pool left handed and shoot rifles either so I guess I'm just plain weird

 

[Ace]

I'm right handed, I shoot right, golf right, bat left handed, shoot pistols left handed due to left eye dominance, shoot pool left handed and shoot rifles either so I guess I'm just plain weird

I shoot pool left handed too. It’s the only thing I do backwards. And I have no idea why I do it.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

I think it's partially due to having a stronger bridge with the dominant hand

 

[BigFatCat999]

Now trade for Ryan Johansen to give your PBP a corronary.

 

[Zman5778]

Now trade for Ryan Johansen to give your PBP a corronary.

Dunleavy would be fine.

It'd be Rob Ray that would have seizures trying to differentiate the two.

 

[BigFatCat999]

Dunleavy would be fine.

It'd be Rob Ray that would have seizures trying to differentiate the two.

I'm a Preds fan living in the TV zone of Buffalo, (Hell, I used to work in Buffalo's org tree.)

 

[Gabrielor]

I'm right handed, I shoot right, golf right, bat left handed, shoot pistols left handed due to left eye dominance, shoot pool left handed and shoot rifles either so I guess I'm just plain weird

Left handed here.

Play drums right. Play guitar left but on a righty string layout. Can drive stick. hockey shot is somehow still left though.

It’s a righties world.

 

[Tachycineta]

I’m ambidextrous in everything except for writing. That I’m strictly a righty, but that’s because I wasn’t allowed to write with the devil’s hand.

I am left handed. When I was little, my parents kept making me use my right hand for everything. Now, I only write/throw with my left hand. I shoot pool right handed (shoot right in gym hockey, not that it is saying anything), cut with my right hand (both plated food and cutting board food). I kick with my right foot. I can also drive stick.

I just read a study that suggested "mix-handed" people have more atrophy in the hippocampus and amygdala when aging and more cognitive decline. Obviously, it is just one study and there are a lot of potential influencing factors.

Ok, now that I'm depressed about possible early cognitive decline (ok, I get that life in many ways is a crapshoot), back to enjoying the fact that the Amerks live to see another day...

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I am left handed. When I was little, my parents kept making me use my right hand for everything. Now, I only write/throw with my left hand. I shoot pool right handed (shoot right in gym hockey, not that it is saying anything), cut with my right hand (both plated food and cutting board food). I kick with my right foot. I can also drive stick.

I just read a study that suggested "mix-handed" people have more atrophy in the hippocampus and amygdala when aging and more cognitive decline. Obviously, it is just one study and there are a lot of potential influencing factors.

Ok, now that I'm depressed about possible early cognitive decline (ok, I get that life in many ways is a crapshoot), back to enjoying the fact that the Amerks live to see another day...

Some things I’m strictly one handed at doing. Like writing or driving stick. But then again, it’s not like there’s really an option to drive a British car here in North America. And cutting up food.

And I can’t catch a baseball for shit with a lefty glove. But I attribute that to not growing up using one, as those were $20 more for the same model and my parents were cheap.

 

[Jim Bob]

I do everything RH expect shoot a hockey puck.

My athletic son is LH, was a RH shot in hockey, plays lax goalie RH, bowls LH, threw LH and batted RH in baseball, and I am not sure which way he golfs.

 

[TageGod]

Now trade for Ryan Johansen to give your PBP a corronary.

Every draft a small part of me wants them to select the names that will be hardest for Ray to pronounce. I don't think he can handle Poltapov.

 

[Fjordy]

Every draft a small part of me wants them to select the names that will be hardest for Ray to pronounce. I don't think he can handle Poltapov.

Here it is necessary to place the accent correctly. He will surely speak Po'ltapov, but correctly Polta'pov.

 

[Reddawg]

I'm a righty that shoots right but when I started playing street hockey when I was like 4 I was using sticks from the kid down the street and he's left handed and had right-shooting sticks. But I also golf right so it makes sense to me.

I golf wrong. Way wrong.

 

[WeDislikeEich]

I am right handed but shoot left in hockey. I golf right and bat right handed, though I could switch hit (probably not anymore…lol). In soccer I kicked with both legs.

 

[RoyalOverNavy]

I grew up playing hockey in a town with two large families.
There were 11 boys between the two families, and all played hockey.
All 11 are right-hand dominant. Throw right -- baseball bat right -- golf right -- write right.
Six shot left-handed in hockey. Go figure.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Now trade for Ryan Johansen to give your PBP a corronary.

And bring back Johansson. Jonas Johansson in net. Also Larsson and Mason, let’s just get a meltdown on air.

 

[NotABadPeriod]

And bring back Johansson. Jonas Johansson in net. Also Larsson and Mason, let’s just get a meltdown on air.

What's Calle Johansson up to these days?

 

[Zman5778]

What's Calle Johansson up to these days?

Kenny Jonsson as well.

 

[BigFatCat999]

And bring back Johansson. Jonas Johansson in net. Also Larsson and Mason, let’s just get a meltdown on air.

Would be fun.