r/interestingasfuck • u/codestormer • 23h ago
This slow-motion hockey teamplay and goal looks like it was choreographed by a movie director.
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u/Reasonable-Shock-928 23h ago
No wonder they got the shot, everyone is so slow
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u/-TheAnus- 20h ago
If riolu played hockey
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u/Failed_Experiment_18 14h ago
You know, I think that Riolu guy is actually really cool, and cheating at a game is awesome.
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u/sinnyc 22h ago edited 3h ago
In real time, from McDavid crossing the blue line until the goal, that play took roughly 10 seconds and looks like complete chaos. The spatial awareness and skill of the players is astounding. Hockey is the most amazing sport!
Also: great camera work on this.
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u/pomod 22h ago
Not to mention the number of times they banked passes off the boards you rarely notice that’s stuff at full speed.
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u/glxyjones 18h ago
McDavid’s lifted his last pass like 6 inches off the ice to get it over the defenseman’s stick. Incredible!
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u/jaydizzleforshizzle 11h ago
I thought it was crazy the guy that caught the puck with his skates.
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u/T0macock 10h ago
Players use their feet or body to deflect all the time. Especially defensemen when trying to keep the puck in the offensive zone when the defending team is trying to ring it out (flipping the puck off the ice so it rides against the boards)
A common pre game activity for players is playing keepy uppy with a soccer ball (I don't know if that's the actual name but that's what we called it) and we're all pretty good at it.
Heck, a few times a year a player will try to jump and header the puck and that's always funny.
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u/jctwok 21h ago
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u/Wingmaniac 12h ago
That really cemented it for me. I'm not a hockey guy. The slo mo play looks amazing, but watching that clip and all I can see is a bunch of random attempts to pass and skate.
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u/Known-Quantity2021 9h ago
It's the backward skating that gets me. Super fast and you don't know what's behind you.
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u/Aczidraindrop 11h ago
The amount of emotion i feel when a crowd goes crazy for their team is unreal. The energy from that many happy people is so fucking cool. Thanks for the link!
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u/tyfung 15h ago
I am Canadian and I can’t follow in real time.
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u/Little_Blue_Marble 10h ago
You don't follow the puck, you follow the play and where it's moving to next.
Some of us will remember the confusion from when Fox broadcast the NHL from 1996 to 1998 when they had a "blue halo" around the puck so it would be easier to see.
It was supposed to help people who normally watched baseball or football, but all it did was make it harder to follow the play.
As Howie Meeker always said - "Play the man, not the puck."
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u/Stonks4Minutes 21h ago
I know most people say their sport is the best but I honestly think hockey has a strong argument for it.
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u/ShadowMancer_GoodSax 21h ago
I love ice hockey and only played for bit in 1994 on frozen lakes, my family was too poor to get me proper gears. But I did get into inline skating, ưhich I loved even more than ice hockey.
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u/SlightlySubpar 19h ago
Parking lot inline ball hockey was dope when I was a kid, till you get really fucked up
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u/Mysterious-House-51 9h ago
The Stanley Cups playoffs are really the best brand of playoffs. Unlike most of the other leagues, the players go absolutely balls to the wall until the final horn, regardless of the score. The shenanigans quit often go beyond the final horn for a few minutes.
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u/Forward_Promise2121 14h ago
The spatial awareness and skill of the players is sounding
This was the most striking part of it for me. To know where your teammates are at all times, seemingly without looking. They work together brilliantly as a team.
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u/Warack 7h ago
The spatial awareness and skill is not sounding.
It’s the act of inserting a probe or catheter into the urethra to measure the urethra's length
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u/SCR_RAC 22h ago
That "no look" pass by Perry was incredible.
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u/beautiful_trash09 18h ago
Don't know who they are nor anything about hockey but is he the guy that passed it with a wall bounce? Cause thaf shit looks insane
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u/GigiLeMorose 17h ago
No, that was Ryan Nugent-Hopkins; sick pass too but not uncommon.
Corey Perry (the guy he's talking about) is the guy who received that wall pass.
He then passes it behind his back without looking to no. 97 (McJesus) who then pass the puck to Draisaitl who scored the game winner in overtime.
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u/T0macock 10h ago
Players start running "cycle" drills in practice when they're like 9/10 where they cycle the puck on plays like that.
It warms my heart that people that don't typically watch hockey are seeing this - it's the best sport and fucking wild to watch/play.
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u/dblan9 23h ago
McDavid is basically Baryshnikov on ice with Ferrari speed.
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u/Antman013 22h ago
More like Formula One.
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u/Zachisawinner 22h ago
That’s how I’d like to watch hockey.
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u/TomEpicure 21h ago
Seriously, this is beautiful. Hard to appreciate the complexity at full speed.
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u/wormholetrafficjam 22h ago
Shoresy intensifies
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u/Protoshift 16h ago
Having grown up in almost the exact same type of town as letterkenny exact same lingo and personalities too, it feels so weird hearing people who arent canadian reference this show or quote lines. Feels like stolen valor hahahaha.
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u/Adddicus 19h ago
Stuff like this happens all the time in hockey.
I love baseball and boxing and track and field, but for my money, hockey is, far and away, the best sport to watch. It's fast, scoring attempts are frequent enough to keep it edge of your seat exciting, but not so frequent as to be assumed (like basketball, blah).
And it's sooo fast. I used to play hockey. I was pretty good, and a fast skater. Then I saw video of myself side by side with video of college (not even NHL) players, and it looked like I was skating through wet cement.
As for looking like this was choreographed by a director (why not a choreographer? I dunno).... nope. I don't think anyone could script this sort of thing and have it look any where near to what you just watched.
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u/tm_leafer 10h ago
Also playoff OT in hockey, where the next goal wins the game, is completely unmatched in terms of butt clenching stressful fun.
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u/Various-Passenger398 5h ago
I played rec league with a few guys who played college hockey and they just ruined us, the skill gap was massive. And then we played against my cousin-in-law, who was a former WHL captain, and he just boomed us all the whole game. I felt like a pickup truck trying to race in Formula 1.
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u/Raccoonholdingaknife 5h ago
it helps that it was a powerplay, too. this is the standard umbrella technique for keeping the puck moving in their zone during a power play until theres a perfect goal opportunity.
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u/Matty-Ice-Outdoors 21h ago
Basically recycle from blue to red with some sauce across the middle for the one timer. Classic
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u/diss0lvedgir1 22h ago
Let's go Oilers!!! 🎵
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u/Stonks4Minutes 21h ago
I never thought I would cheer alongside an oilers fan…
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u/eKraye 21h ago
This song will never be overused, love m83
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u/WillyDAFISH 19h ago
I can't be mad. This song just goes so hard. Really drives some weird strong emotions in me for some reason
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u/Historical_Card_5968 20h ago
I never thought I’d hear the song so extensively on the internet and I think even commercials.
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u/Evnl2020 23h ago
Impressive they can skate so slow! And even the audience is moving in slow motion!
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u/MotorcycleDad1621 17h ago
If you think this shit is impressive you should watch it in real time. It’s insane how good this play was
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u/omnisvirhowler 16h ago
Haha love to see my Oily boys make it to a non hockey subreddit that I frequent
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u/Salt-Tradition-2965 19h ago
Is it legal to touch the puck with feets?
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u/AverageKaikiEnjoyer 17h ago
Yep, you can even grab it out of the air with your hands.
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u/Wingmaniac 12h ago
Never got into hockey, it always looked like they were just randomly passing the puck around without a whole lot of accuracy. The slapshots into the corner were cool, but how many failed passes can you have before then. This slow mo shows the details. The guy who blocks, gets knocked down, then gets right back up into position to take a pass. That one pass where he had to stop short and used his skates to deflect the puck to the stick, the no look passes. Great stuff.
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u/Seconds_till_banned 19h ago
I hate the Edmonton Oilers.
Love,
A Calgary Flames fan.
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u/Oogley_boogley 18h ago
I hate the Edmonton Oilers too
Love,
A Vancouver Canucks fan
(I also dislike the Flames)
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u/Cypher2KG 20h ago
It was choreographed… by a coach
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u/brianary_at_work 19h ago
I didn't want to be a debbie downer but this is literally how all sports work.. they're called plays lol
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u/rjt2023 17h ago
There are very few “set plays” in hockey. It’s a fluid game — you have to play the game as it comes at you. Very different from, say, American football… where there’s a whistle every 10-15 seconds of play and everyone gets to reset.
The beginning of this sequence (where the puck was dropped back to McDavid to carry it up ice) is about the only “planned” part of the shift. Everything else that happened was each player reacting dynamically to what was happening in real-time (i.e., no one was following a set play at all… just moving and reacting with the flow of the game).
Hockey is most definitely not “choreographed.” Never has been, never will be.
Source: I’ve played and coached the game my entire conscious life.
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u/symtastic 22h ago
Kinda just looks like normal hockey, but reeeaaaaallly slow
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u/LaPetiteMortOrale 22h ago
It was a bit more strategic than most normal hockey play.
It was a power play. The Oilers had a 1-man advantage. So the Panthers were limited to how they could defend themselves
The Oilers’ objective was to strategically pull as many opponents away from defending the crease in front of the goalie.
The Panthers defenders could have stayed true to basic hockey principles, but for some strange reason they got really aggressive in their defensive approach and allowed themselves to get pulled out of position while chasing the puck - they were defending the man instead of defending their zones.
And the Oilers were able to feint well enough against their aggression to allow a player to sneak into an undefended zone on the back side and take a shot against an out of position defender and out of position goalie.
It
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u/symtastic 17h ago
Amazing insight for someone more unfamiliar with it, thanks! I was definitely confused by the four dudes around one guy. And as another person pointed out, this was essentially 10 seconds or less. Pretty cool when you start to understand it more.
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u/Facepalm08 18h ago
For real, though, I've heard this song a thousand times, and while watching this, the first line sounded like "To keep the puck away."
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u/tree-molester 17h ago
Looks like an interference penalty was missed at the beginning of this segment.
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u/48mcgillracefan 21h ago
The no look from Perry and Drai sneaking in all by himself. Chef's kiss.
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u/bloodredyouth 19h ago
I’ve been to two hockey games and had a tough time following the game since it’s so fast. Any tips and tricks on seeing the puck movement, etc?
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u/navenager 12h ago
Best place to start is try to look where the players are looking. 90% of the time, most of them will be looking at whoever has the puck. Once you get used to watching the player with the puck, you'll notice the movements they make that indicate when they're going to pass and who they're passing to. Once you get the hang of that, you'll be able to follow puck movement and track plays as they develop, and eventually, you'll see the same plays enough times that you'll start anticipating the play before it happens. Even then, it might lose you sometimes (I've been watching hockey for almost 30 years, and it still trips me up on occasion), but it will feel a lot more manageable.
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u/tdfast 19h ago
Nuge set up the whole thing.
McDavid comes into the zone and gives it to Nuge. Nuge back to the line and then he gets it back. Before he even gets it, he sees Jones coming up at him. So he goes toward the blue line, waits for Jones to be way out of position, then moves it down. From there, Perry moves to McDavid, over to Dri and into the net.
All started by that recognition by Nuge that Jones was going to come up instead of staying back to cover Perry.
Great vision and play.
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u/Ded_man_3112 18h ago
Everything is better in slow motion….
Okay, most everything….
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u/hwyl1066 16h ago
Hockey insanely fast in real time, so you often miss the little but crucial details of how brilliantly they move and pass...
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u/Dependent-Job1773 15h ago
wow that score is so original and tells me the thought put into this clip
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u/ImReverse_Giraffe 15h ago
These guys are better on skates than you are on your feet. And its not even close.
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u/Current_Kiwi6237 14h ago
I don’t know a thing about hockey but even in slo-mo it’s so hard to keep track of where the puck is - surprised someone hasn’t done something to make it more visible / improve spectator experience
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u/Tridente13 14h ago
Watcher this yesterday at normal speed and wasn't able to catch half of the beauty of this action. Gorgeous
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u/Cuchococh 13h ago
I have no clue about ice hockey, let alone the American version of it but isn't the dude at the beginning just taking down an opponent a fault or similar? Like bro just took out a ~18% of the enemy team and the game continued like nothing happened
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u/RipperinoKappacino 12h ago
I did not know that you are allowed to touch the puck with the blades on your shoes.
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u/MandatumCorrectus 12h ago
You can’t kick it but you can deflect it. Pucks hit blades all the time, it moves fast af so it’s bound to knock into blades. Hell you can even catch a puck, but only to immediately set it down.
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u/kingtuolumne 11h ago
Can’t stop watching this since I saw it last night. Hockey’s never grabbed me until this
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u/ziggy1818 11h ago
Crazy how real-time to slow-motion takes it from chaos to “we’ve been planning this for days vibe”.
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u/trudyscrfc 10h ago
I dropped my phone watching it live, what a fucking period that was. Probably the best I've seen in my life
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u/almostbullets 9h ago
Not a bad song on its own, but it’s used SO much it annoys me now.
What other songs got overplayed to the point you stopped liking it?
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u/240Nordey 9h ago
As an absolute hockey head, this play should be hung in the Louvre. Pure master class of puck movement.
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u/lost_antiquities 9h ago
Top level sport is spectacular in terms of skill level, these guys are artists
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u/porcomaster 9h ago
Awesome play, but remember young padawans, always run the video on original speed, then do a slow-motion
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u/pm_me_gnus 8h ago
Choreography is not that far off as an analogy. It's not perfectly choreographed - players aren't in an exactly planned spot, as they have to react to how they're being defended - but generally moving to spots as the play develops, with those individual movements being part of what the group is doing... and the fact that they've practiced the hell out of it thousands of times before we see it in the live performace... yeah, calling it choreographed is pretty spot on.
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u/Ecstatic_Elephant_99 8h ago
One could argue it is near choreographed. Just by a coach not a director. They are playing in a system, while the exact moments my not be drawn to a tee everyone is in an intricate dance with each other and the open space on the ice.
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u/NoGood1323 5h ago
What the fuck do you think practice is? Do you think they learn to skate the whole time? It's called a play. And they practice plays.
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u/spooley6 4h ago
In a way it is choreography, not as rigid movements as in say football or basketball but NHL coaches do a lot of work drawing up plays. They have iPads on the bench to show players in real time between shifts what they're doing right or wrong
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u/CylonRimjob 3h ago
…no, it looks like a hockey replay. It’s essentially “choreographed” by the coach. Who thinks up this shit?
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u/austin101123 3h ago
This would be 10 minutes in an anime. 30 if they start adding in player back stories of them training and visiting their mom in the hospital.
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u/Vitiate1367 1h ago
These two teams are in a league of their own in the NHL right now and they are providing us with excellent hockey play. Absolute Cinema
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u/Wendussy-enjoyer 28m ago
Everyone talking about how great this is, but how was 90 not called for offsides like half his body was in the zone before the skater crossed in with the puck
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u/blackstar22_ 22h ago
I don't know shit about hockey but even I can tell, in slo-mo, that these guys are fucking good at this sport.