There is nothing on the ice that will slow the player down. All momentum is forward in this. Its going to come down to, what person is putting more power to the ground. The extra gliding from the skates would be minimal since it would be a spring (maybe take of a fraction of a second). But, remember with each strike the hockey player digs into the ice a little bit which may allow him to push off harder (like a running block).
I bet it would be really damn close for a 40m. To close to ever figure out because the athletes would have to be 100% equal.
Skating is a shit load faster than running but in just a 40 yard dash I don’t know if the hockey player would be able to pick up speed fast enough in such a short time span since he’s gotta make choppy steps to start off with that aren’t in full stride.
I’m going to skate a few 40’s tomorrow. In response to what Rainjack stated I’ll weigh myself in sweats then again in full hockey gear to give everyone an idea of the extra weight a hockey player hauls around.
Some of my teammates want to be timed as well with the understanding that they will come out and run some sprints with me in the next week or so for comparison.
[quote]OBoile wrote:
I agree that this would be evidence in favour of the runner at 40m but not at 100m as you say. 10.22 is faster than the women’s world record for 100m (and considerably faster than any woman has run in the last 10 years).
But over 40m, I’m guessing the runner would win based on that time. I imagine that the skater would gain a lot of ground in the final 50m of a 100m race.
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I don’t think those first 100m are straight either, but I could be wrong.
[quote]scoot823 wrote:
I’m going to skate a few 40’s tomorrow. In response to what Rainjack stated I’ll weigh myself in sweats then again in full hockey gear to give everyone an idea of the extra weight a hockey player hauls around.
Some of my teammates want to be timed as well with the understanding that they will come out and run some sprints with me in the next week or so for comparison.[/quote]
According to my results, the NHL player would win with a 40yard sprint in 3.64 seconds.
I took this video of Dylan Larkin skating a time trial (in pads) and paused the video between the neutral zones:
He skates the first neutral zone in 3 seconds, and the second in 1 second. Each neutral zone is 16.667yards. Those times average to a skating speed of 11yards per second.
(Keep in mind I am pausing YouTube so there’s no way to get the 10ths and 100ths of a second, I rounded up to 3 seconds.)
So a fast NHL player does 40yards/11yards = 3.64 seconds w/pads
The average NFL wide receiver = 4.55 seconds w/o pads
The fastest NFL player’s 40yard = 4.22 seconds w/o pads
(An Olympic sprinter = 4.10 seconds w/o pads)
Also, the average wide receiver weighs about the same as the average NHL player.