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Originally Posted by Teufelsdreck
If initially it takes (Y)Emelin a fraction of a second longer to react, doesn't he more than compensate by getting to a spot faster than it would take Spacek?
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Hockey vision > speed
because movements happen quickly from many sources in tiny windows of time, and sound positioning has more to do with vision than with speed. It's not just the speed it takes to get somewhere, but the entire dynamics of reflex which is a mental adaptation and has to do with many of them, like pivoting, pokechecking, bodychecking. All of those will be timed differently, using a different more restrained space, and less time to do so. That's why many euros don't make it as quickly in the NHL, because they need to adapt to the quicker pace of the game and the restrained space.
That's why speedy players are usually on the wing, not on defense, because they have to move a lot more than defensemen, whereas the best of defensemen (and centermen) have the highest hockey vision, not the quickest step (although it sure helps to have the two like Subban does, which makes him so unique and he'd probably more suited to be a centerman)