Spartachat
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Would have Einstein made a good hockey player? Probably not. Would Gretzky make a good physicist? Definitely not.
Why do you want to tie Einstein up with skates?What a shame we didn't get to tie Einstein up skates?!
Why do you want to tie Einstein up with skates?
Mcdavid was also hyped as being very diligent in his studies; that being said, I don't think there is any major relationship in general between the two.
I wouldnt usually associate those types of people with high intelligence.McDavid strikes me as the smartest of the generational talents. He seems like a legitimately smart dude. Not surprising, as his brother graduated from Ivey, his father is a successful business exec and consultant, and his mom is a HR director. If he weren't in hockey he'd likely be highly successful doing something else.
Gretzky and Crosby seem like they've got above average intelligence. If it weren't for hockey, they'd likely have university degrees, and likely be fairly successful due to their work ethic, but I'm thinking mid-level management. Not likely to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, or executives.
Lemieux I think is fairly average, but also was pretty lazy when he was younger. He'd be working some pretty ordinary job, with limited career growth because he wouldn't apply himself.
Orr I don't know much about.
I think there is something wrong in this post...There's no correlation. There are good hockey players who are smart and good players that are dumb. There's also the opposite, 4th liners that are tremendously smart and ones that are dumb.
Mark Recchi is a doctor, so is Randy Gregg, guys on the opposite ends of the hockey scoring spectrum.
McDavid strikes me as the smartest of the generational talents. He seems like a legitimately smart dude. Not surprising, as his brother graduated from Ivey, his father is a successful business exec and consultant, and his mom is a HR director. If he weren't in hockey he'd likely be highly successful doing something else.
Gretzky and Crosby seem like they've got above average intelligence. If it weren't for hockey, they'd likely have university degrees, and likely be fairly successful due to their work ethic, but I'm thinking mid-level management. Not likely to be doctors, lawyers, engineers, or executives.
Lemieux I think is fairly average, but also was pretty lazy when he was younger. He'd be working some pretty ordinary job, with limited career growth because he wouldn't apply himself.
Orr I don't know much about.
Taylor Hall. Skill and hockey sense but not so smart that oneI don’t know any NHL player’s actual IQ but I can think of some guys that were smart hockey players but dips in real life, and vice versa. Look at Stu Grimson.
your evidence does not support your conclusionCraig Adams is a Harvard graduate. So no, hockey IQ and real life IQ don't correlate.
He was a heck of a lot of fun to be around in college too. Well, from what his peers can remember, anyway.Hey now, Murray was a very dependable D-man in his prime!
high iq in any way or form is not disadvantageous so i say yes it should correlate. my guess is that any nhl player with a high iq has probably a high hockey iq but at the same time, every nhl player with a high hockey iq does not necessary have a high iq. (iam specific talking about nhl/or pros because i assume it takes time to develop hockey iq... which is guaranteed if u have a hockey career)
Dude was the best 9 year old on his street. Give him his props.>> ball hockey
>> high level
Ask a fish to climb a tree and it looks like an idiot. Ask it to swim and it's a genius.Would have Einstein made a good hockey player? Probably not. Would Gretzky make a good physicist? Definitely not.
Not necessarily true. Most NHL players have been playing hockey since they were little kids so they're pretty much all on a level playing field when it comes to repetition and experience yet there are some players that are 15 year vets in the NHL that don't have a hockey IQ as high as 17 year olds playing Juniors.You think them first, then with repetition the best reactions (the ones that produce best results in your tests) become the "intuition", basically muscle memory. The more experience you have, the better you know where you should be and what you should do in a split second decision because you have taught yourself the best possible reaction.
Ask a fish to climb a tree and it looks like an idiot. Ask it to swim and it's a genius.