Repeated winner of the world speed skating championships Evgeniy Lalenkov, protecting colors hockey team"Russian Press", broke the speed record set in the NHL and KHL. Who did Lalenkov overtake and what achievement was recorded for the amateur hockey player, but at the same time professional athlete? We talk about this, and also remember other reactive players.
Evgeny Lalenkov (“Russian Press”)
So, Lalenkov set a record before the Russian Press training session on the ice of the Sokolniki Sports Palace. He drove a circle around the hockey rink in 10 seconds. Of course, all this looks funny, and the time is unlikely to be flawless and accurate, but given Lalenkov’s speed abilities, the unofficial record looks quite realistic. In any case, Evgeniy can be applauded. Maybe he should be invited to the upcoming hockey festival, planned for January 2017 in Ufa? The show turned out just right!
(“Metallurg” Magnitogorsk)
If we take professional hockey players, the first one that comes to mind is the record of the current Magnitogorsk forward Wojtek Wolski, who is currently undergoing treatment after severe injury. Let us recall that in 2015, Wolski, being a participant in the KHL All-Star Game from Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo, covered the circle in 13.178 seconds. This was the best result in the entire history of such events held in the league.
(Detroit Red Wings)
Let's not ignore the National Hockey League. At the end of January 2016, as part of the NHL All-Star Game, the East won the first SuperSkills competition in the speed race. The representative of Detroit won two bonus points for his team, showing best time(12.894). The young forward made history as the man who broke Mike Gartner's NHL All-Star Game record of 13,386. Let's not forget about the size of the site. It was more difficult for Lalenkov in the big box.
(Vancouver, Florida, Rangers)
If we are talking about the fastest hockey players, then we cannot fail to mention Pavel Bure. No wonder the legendary Russian hockey player nicknamed the Russian Rocket. Bure in best years could overtake absolutely any opponent by taking a long turn along the side or leaving in a jerk. Even if opponents understood Pavel's intentions, he could suddenly increase his strength and leave everyone behind him. Playing for Vancouver and Florida, Bure was perhaps the fastest sniper of those years. We also remember Bure’s excellent performance for the Russian national team. And five goals against the Finnish national team are forever included in hockey history. But Lalenkov’s record of 10 seconds per lap cannot be broken even by the Russian Rocket.
It is most advantageous to push off with your leg extended at an angle of 45° to the ice. As the angle increases, the load on the pushing leg also increases: at 90° it is exactly equal to the weight of the hockey player.
Knowing the magnitude of the push, you can calculate other characteristics of the hockey player’s movement. For example, acceleration, the value of which, with proper acceleration, reaches 7 m/sec.
What is the speed of hockey players? If we accept that during repulsion the center of gravity shifts -
We conducted the following experiment. A paper strip 20 m long with marks every 0.5 m was attached to one side of the ice track. Using a high-speed synchronized movie camera, technically experienced hockey players in full uniform were filmed, from the start at the beginning of the paper strip and along its entire length. Filmed from a distance of 30 m. It turned out that average speed The hockey players developed 8 m/sec at a distance of 10-12 m from the start. In further segments, the speed at the same effort remained constant - 8 m/sec.
inside the arc so that the tangential acceleration does not carry it away tangentially.
To obtain the required centripetal force (a component of body weight), a hockey player at a speed of 7 m/sec and a bend radius of 5 m must tilt 45°.
Using a simple form -
The results of the experiment confirmed that a hockey player’s achievement of maximum speed is decisively influenced by the correct running technique, the correct sequence and the strength of pushes. Long sliding has a negative effect on speed. The friction of skates on ice and air resistance are small and do not matter for determining the speed of sliding. Since the amount of friction does not depend on the size of the rubbing planes, it does not matter for a hockey player whether he glides on one skate or on both. True, the friction force increases when a hockey player moves from a state of rest to movement.
On turns, which occur very often when playing hockey, two more important forces come to the fore - centrifugal and centripetal. When driving along an arc, the components of the repulsive force must act centripetally. The athlete bends -
hundred during a match can also be found graphically by identifying all his movements on the ice on a reduced (1: 400) layout of the playing court, where all the lines that serve as reference points are indicated. The length of the player's entire path in meters is determined using a map meter. At the same time, the active game time is determined of this player. Thus, we found that during a match the player runs 6000-8000 m. The speed of the attackers is 5.4 m sec (324 m/min), the defenders are 4.3 m sec (258 m/min). Canadian professional players reached average speeds of 6.8-8.3 m/sec, that is, 409-502 m, min.
As in other collective games, a kick in ice hockey is the most important element of the competition.
Experienced fans know: players hit different ways, which can be divided into strikes from the hand (with a long
at 10 cm, it is 1.2 m/sec.
According to calculations, if in further phases of repulsion the initial data remains the same (the angle of the pushing leg is 45°, the center of gravity shifts by 0.1 m), the hockey player reaches a maximum speed of 12 m/sec (about 44 km/h) already in 10 m from the start, making 10 pushes with both legs alternately.
Of course, it must be taken into account that we're talking about about a living body. It is fundamentally impossible to maintain a constant repulsion angle of 45°, which increases with further pushes and affects the shift of the center of gravity. In addition, the calculated value of the speed of movement - 1.2 m/sec - speaks only of movement in the direction of the push, and not of the resulting movement of the ejector, which may not be so fast.
To check the theoretical calculations and the mentioned regularities
The TSN Internet portal tried to find out who is the fastest NHL player, and also studied the past history of such disputes.
EVOLUTION OF SPEED
U Paula Coffey his jaw dropped when he saw how Connor McDavid rushes by TJ Brody and scores the very goal that has already become legendary.
On the day when McDavid reached a speed of 40.9 km/h on the site, Coffey called Wayne Gretzky and asked one simple question: “What was that? It seems that this McDavid from some other planet."
Gretzky without hesitation he noted: “Paul, you did this yourself in every match.”
Speed has always been a fundamental factor in the game. But the boundaries of the idea of speed have expanded noticeably since Coffey regularly went on the ice.
"Is your car faster than your dad's car? Hell, of course it is," he jokes. Coffey. - The current NHL is the Indy 500. The current generation is racing across the ice at 100 miles per hour."
Nowadays every car is faster than in the old days. And every hockey player too.
“Seeing the way these guys fly across the ice... I can’t understand how they can keep up the whole shift at that pace,” notes the former striker and now television expert.” Columbus" Jody Shelley.
The average shift in a game lasts 44 seconds, which is noticeably less than 57 seconds - the first indicator since the league began calculating individual statistics for hockey players in 1998.
The pace of the game has increased so much that the players - professionally trained athletes at the peak of their powers - can only withstand so much time.
“You can certainly see that the speeds have increased,” says legendary coach Scotty Bowman. “Maybe not twice, but close to it.”
Guy Lefler made fans sigh with delight at the old Montreal Forum when he once again rushed past his opponent with his hair blowing in the wind. Shelley says that “now this wind is blowing you away on the bench.”
The style of play in the NHL gave impetus to a natural evolution - survival of the fittest, or rather, the fastest, which led to the retirement of such players as Shelley and others like him, who can no longer keep up with a faster opponent.
“Everything happens so quickly that it seems chaotic. But it’s organized chaos,” explains Shelley, who fought 163 times in the NHL during his career. - Evolution has taken a step forward and reached a new level. Hockey has always been fast, but now it's lightning fast."
Both the attitude towards prospects and the vector of work of scouts of league clubs have changed. Gone are the days when, first of all, the size and power of a hockey player were valued. Now everyone is interested in skating and gaming intelligence. And those whose brains keep up with their fast feet become the most delicious morsels in the draft.
But, of course, there are exceptions to the rules.
“If someone tells me that I have lost speed, then, of course, if you look at the background of others,” says Jaromir Jagr . - But it wasn’t me who became slower - it was others who became faster. I myself have become faster than I was before. Believe me. I was reviewing the recording of past matches. The league has just become noticeably faster."
TSN Analyst Ray Ferraro supports this idea: "Victory" Pittsburgh"The 2016 Stanley Cup changed the whole idea of how a team should be built. You may not be big, but you can't be slow. If you can't skate, you won't get a chance to play."
CYCLONES, LIGHTNING AND FLARE
The truth is that speed has always been the key factor.
This meeting was called " Fastest game"and was considered an example of the fastest hockey at the dawn of the 20th century.
Even then, everyone understood what was the fundamental factor for success.
"Cyclone" Taylor, born in 1884, was the first hockey star to be remembered not for his personal achievements, but for his nickname. This also deserves a special place in hockey history.
Taylor understood this. Even at 90 he was signing autographs: Fred " Cyclone " Taylor.
He became the first player to receive a nickname for his speed. And then he had many followers. "Cyclone" Taylor. "Stradford Lightning" Morenz. "Rocket" Richard. "Golden Fighter" Hull. "Blonde Devil" Lefler. "Russian rocket" Bure. "Finnish Flash" Selanne.
It's the league Taylor The Pacific Coast Hockey Association was the first to try to determine the fastest player.
In 1923, The Vancouver Daily World conducted a poll on who was the fastest hockey player. “This will not be an easy choice,” the publication wrote. “There are five candidates, each of whom can rightfully lay claim to this honor.”
Eleven years later, in 1934, The Canadian Press correspondents visited seven cities and repeated a similar survey. Everyone came to the same opinion - the legendary striker became the winner." Montreal" Howie Morenz, "The Stradford Lightning" (or "The Mitchell Meteor").
In 1942, the NHL introduced speed racing for the first time. This happened on January 30, 1942 at the home arena" Toronto"Representatives of all seven league teams at that time took part in the competition. The striker became the owner of an honorary title and a gift watch." Maple Leaves" Seal Epps. His winning time was 14 point 4/5 seconds, which equaled a speed of 23 m/h (36.8 km/h).
“It was a bright and memorable spectacle. Hockey stars showed their best capabilities,” wrote a journalist from the Toronto Daily Star.
In 1968, Popular Mechanics magazine published an article claiming that the striker " Chicago" Bobby Hull without the puck he reached a speed of 29.7 m/h (47.8 km/h), and with the puck - 28.3 m/h (45.5 km/h). We do not know how these measurements were made, but if they are correct, then we can say that in terms of speed Hull did not concede in anything McDavid, who accelerated with the puck to 25.4 m/h in opening match this season against " Calgary".
Even if we put aside doubts that Hull A couple of generations ahead of its time and able to break speed records that still stand 60 years later, there's no arguing that the Golden Fighter lived up to its nickname.
"Bobby Hull could pick up the puck behind his own goal and fly with it to someone else’s. He simply didn’t notice his opponents,” confirms Bowman.
Probably, the importance of speed is evidenced by the event of 1972, in which the club took an active part Halla - "Chicago". Owner of the Blackhawks Bill Wirtz began negotiations with the legendary Dutch speed skater Ardom Schenk. The Hawks could sign a man who just recently won three gold medals at the Sapporo Olympics.
Schenk never switched to hockey. But the NHL found its answer to the Dutchman - Bobby Orra.
"Bobby was the most fast man on ice. “He had no competitors,” continues Bowman. - He was simply unstoppable. Nobody could compare with him. Nobody could ride like that. Incredible starting spurt. He just took the puck and ran past people who were taken aback."
Forward" Boston" and Hall of Fame member Johnny Butsik shares this opinion.
But Orr himself insists there was at least one person better than him: "I couldn't ride like Paul Coffey. I don’t want to sound simply modest with these words. I'll tell you one story. My father used to tell me: “Have you seen how this guy skates? Coffey? In this regard, he is better than you." My father really said that. I just clarified: “Am I even close to him?” Honestly. I think that says it all."
Nearly half a century after the first speed race in Toronto, the NHL introduced the first speed race at the All-Star Game - a race without a puck. In 1992, the winner was forward " Detroit" Sergey Fedorov. Four years later, the striker" Toronto" Mike Gartner set a record (13.386 seconds) that remained unbroken for 16 years.
Only in 2012, the winger " Rangers" Carl Hagelin circled the rink in 13.128, which turned out to be better than the time Garnter.
After another five, everything changed again. And this time it has revived many once-forgotten controversies.
ALL-STAR GAME RECORDS
Speaking officially, then Connor McDavid the fastest player in the world in name only, at least according to the All-Star Game record books.
The title belongs to the striker" Detroit" Dylan Larkin, which in 2016 beat the result Hagelin, completing a lap in 13.172 seconds. Although I myself Larkin insists that "this record should not have happened." Larkin beat the result Hagelin due to the fact that he was allowed to start with a running start, which did not happen in previous years.
“It was a strange situation,” recalls Larkin. - They told me that I can accelerate, so why refuse? This is a big advantage."
In a year McDavid tried to overtake Larkin in Los Angeles, but he was forced to start from a standstill. Connor won the competition with a time of 13.31 seconds, which was the fastest time Larkin. True, it's still faster than numbers Gartner.
"It's not that big of a deal. At the end of the day, the All-Star Game is more of a show," he says. McDavid. - But in the previous year they allowed a running start. I do not know why? Of course, this played a role. And now this record will last very long for a long time unless the rules change. Otherwise, it is unlikely that anyone will be able to surpass this achievement in the near future."
Larkin, who missed out on the last All-Star Game, didn't see the performance McDavid.
These puzzling rule changes aren't the only reason why Coffey, who himself has never won such a competition at the All-Star Game, considers such races to be unrepresentative.
"Players run without the puck. One lap around the arena. There are a lot of fast players in the NHL, but everything changes when you move with the puck. McDavid able to do everything at top speed."
According to Paul, the title of fastest player goes from Orra To Coffey and from already Coffey To McDavid. With all due respect to the "Russian Rocket". AND Coffey not trying to show off. He is simply talking about what his eyes saw.
"The fastest players... They don't seem to move, but they're still ahead of their opponents. I don't know how best to describe it? He doesn't seem to move, his legs don't move 100 miles an hour. He moves very elegantly."
Now McDavid strikes terror into best defenders league with the speed of their movements and the ability to control the puck.
Individual Skills Improvement Trainer, Darryl Belfrey, who works with Toronto FC players and many NHL stars, notes that the average player is third or fourth level makes one step for 12-14 pushes. Sidney Crosby, Patrick Kane, Nikita Kucherov And McDavid step over 3 pushes.
“He can get up to top speed in just a couple of pushes,” explains Bowman. - Probably in this McDavid most similar to Orra. They could reach maximum speed and control the puck at this speed... This is what distinguishes them from other hockey players.”
McDavid notices this feature. But he admits that this gift was given to him from birth: “I’ve always been able to do it. I’ve always been able to skate well.”
And he cannot explain how he achieved such perfection.
“You can’t teach this. You have to be born with it,” concludes Coffey.
Larkin admits that he would gladly have a head-to-head speed duel with McDavid at the All Star Game. There is a possibility that they will have such an opportunity this coming January in Tampa.
“I don’t know which of us will win,” notes Dylan.
But Coffey thinks he knows the answer to this question: " McDavid- the fastest hockey player... Maybe in 10 years we will be talking about someone else. But now there is no doubt about it."
One of the most important qualities of a modern hockey player is speed. Nowadays everything needs to be done quickly: start, skate, pass the puck, handle it, and shoot at goal. And, perhaps, the most important thing is to think quickly on the court. Instantly make a tactical decision and immediately implement it.
How to develop the speed a hockey player needs? We decided that Vladimir Petrov’s long-time partner Boris Mikhailov, a hockey player distinguished by his high speed qualities, could give us a comprehensive answer to this question.
You need to take care of developing speed from childhood, from classes in a group of boys. The foundation for developing speed is high technology. When you learn to control the puck easily and freely and skate without stress, then you can gradually increase the speed of your actions.
During training, the player needs to improve all hockey techniques not in static positions, and on the run. And strive to run as fast as possible. Even if you lose the puck sometimes. Gradually you will master your maximum speed. Remember, for example, the game of the young... When the coach of the CSKA team, Anatoly Vladimirovich Tarasov, began occasionally letting him onto the ice young player in the main lineup, Kharlamov did everything very quickly, faster than many masters. But he often lost the puck. The coach set him the task of consolidating his “flashes of skill”, making the game constantly fast and stable, reliable. And Kharlamov succeeded.
At higher speeds, attackers are faced primarily with the task of increased difficulty - to handle the puck and make a throw, to confuse the opponent with an unexpected move. One of the fastest Czechoslovak hockey players, Boguslav Eberman, answers the question of what other gaming opportunities high speeds open up.
Frankly, the appearance of high speeds took us by surprise at first, but gradually we got used to it. The important thing was that during the training we practiced several standard maneuvers, which we subsequently successfully applied in practice. One of them was organizing a counterattack. The right wing picked up the puck in the center of the field and rushed along its flank towards the opponent's goal. With some delay, about 5-7 meters from my comrades who had gone ahead, I ran towards the left edge. In this simulated combination, I was assigned the role of receiving the pass. Immediately after receiving the puck there was a feint towards the left side, a move away from the defender and a dash towards the goal. Let's assume that I rolled out from the left side alone. In such a situation, as a rule, the goalkeeper had few chances. At high speed, I made a feint move to the right, halfway, however, I slowed down, again made a feint, but to the left, confusing the goalkeeper with my actions and expecting a mistake on his part. Indeed, at this moment he is forced to react to my plan and move to that part of the gate that turned out to be uncovered. For me, the right side of the gate was completely open. But it often happened that the goalkeeper did not have time to react to my deceptive movements and did not move. Following this, he easily neutralized my breakthrough.
The beginning of one of the counterattacks of the Czechoslovak team was recorded on film at the Prague 1978 World Cup (photo 1). It was Ebermann (No. 25) who started the counterattack. From his left side, where he was marking the Swedish forward, Eberman rushed to the goalkeeper's aid. Holecek had just deflected a shot from a Swedish forward who was breaking through to the net, and the puck bounced into the area. Eberman immediately picked it up, turned around, beat his opponent and rolled into the free space. Now his task is to find the best continuation for a quick counterattack. Pushing the puck forward, he momentarily freed himself from controlling it and looked at his front teammates. Is either of them ready to receive the pass or do you need to move the puck yourself first?
Modern hockey is a game with high speeds and an abundance of physical combat, and there is an opinion that the latter is a big hindrance for fast forwards.
But a true master must prove the superiority of speed over strength, and not just speed of movement, but above all speed of thinking.
Speed is one of the most important components in modern hockey. I think few people doubt this. The concept of speed can be divided into two components:
Starting speed;
Remote speed.
In this section we will pay attention to the “starting speed” and tell you how in the Revenge CCM they work on this element. But first, a little theory about what starting speed is and what its significance is in the life of hockey players.
Starting speed is a physical quality that determines a hockey player’s ability to instantly transition from a state of relative rest to running with maximum acceleration.
In the development of starting speed, the most important role is played by the level physical training. Even a hockey player with good skating technique may have poor starting speed if his level of physical fitness leaves much to be desired. If a hockey player has weak legs and abs, he will not be able to maintain “ correct landing”, which means it will deprive itself of a powerful push during acceleration, which is manifested by the spring method. From a bent position, the leg quickly straightens and pushes away from the ice surface. The more the leg is bent and the more powerful the push, the greater the distance that the hockey player will roll on the other (supporting) leg.
There is an opinion that not all hockey players can develop their starting speed. This is wrong. It would be more accurate to say that some hockey players are naturally better at it, while others are worse. But all hockey players are capable and should develop their speed qualities. And if, during hard training, it is possible to increase the starting speed by at least 10-15%, then the effectiveness of the game of such a hockey player will increase sharply.
In the Revenge school there are three per week, where one of the main directions is the development of starting speed. Such training takes place on weekends. All the guys, depending on their level of training, are divided into groups and each group develops starting speed according to its own program. A group where weaker children study, more time is spent correct technique skiing, and then the basics of acceleration at maximum speed are explained to them. In groups where more prepared guys get into, we pay less attention to skating technique and work more on starting speed. The main thing here is not to rush! If a child has poor gliding and lacks coordination to move smoothly on ice, then he should not be taught speed skating. First you need to practice skating, and then develop your starting speed. Otherwise, you will have to relearn, and this is much more difficult than learning correctly right away.
To develop starting speed, we use a wide variety of exercises - from simple linear accelerations to exercises with overcoming resistance. Weights and hockey teammates are used as resistance. When developing starting speed, we distinguish three main components:
Leg movement frequency;
Ejection power;
Step length.
Comprehensive and persistent work on these components plays a very important role in the development of starting speed. We conduct training in this direction on the ground and on the ice, paying a lot of attention to the development physical qualities hockey players. In training on the ground, not only exercises are used, but also outdoor games in limited areas (in order for hockey players to move more sharply and think faster). During ice training, in addition to performing the exercises themselves, we explain to the guys how to move correctly during acceleration, how to breathe, where to look and how to correctly place skates on the ice.
We conduct training on developing starting speed weekly; anyone aged 7 to 16 years can sign up and take part.
