God, I miss having him but so grateful. I ran into him and Jiri Hudler outside of a bar after the victory parade in 2008. I said "Pavel?" he just said something back in Russian, they were so drunk I didn't even want to ask for an autograph.
It's hard to explain, but after you've watched enough hockey, you start to get a sixth sense for what hockey "looks" like. The flow, the moves, the bounces etc. Such that when something abnormal happens, like a guy losing his skate blade, even if you're not really looking at him, your mind notices something with isn't hockey. Pavel is the only player I've watched where he will do something which my brain picks up as not "hockey". They can slow it down and show you exactly what he did. But in real time, it just gives you this strange, glitch in the Matrix felling. If that makes any sense.
NHL is about pace , speed, grit , strenght and when someone plays using mostly his IQ with smooth deceive motions and technique - that is not reagular and brain notices that . For example NA technical guy like SID or Kane uses speed and pace of stickhandling. Kucherov or Datsyuk uses smooth style with more IQ involved to not overspeed opponent but deceive
@@zenly_csgo Кучеров другой стиль использует, он не обманывает соперника. в большинстве случаев, когда он отдает передачу, он просто знает, что там есть/будет игрок
@@user-em6qm7pk1q у Кучерова простых ударов к примеру очень мало по воротам, каждый бросок он делает либо из под игрока либо не поднимая головы и взгляда на вратаря до броска ибо вратарь чаще ориентируется на движения головы бросающего в куче игроков чем на шайбу которую он чаще не видит. Кучеров всегда играет на обмане а то что ты говоришь это просто сыгранность.
YES EXACTLY! He's like a glitch in the Matrix. He just has a way of warping your experience of the game. IMO the most original player in NHL history. So...INVENTIVE! One of the few true artists to play and, imo, the greatest stickhandler to ever live.
One of the best and most humble to ever do it, boys... When you've played and watched hockey all of your life, you recognize special skills when you see them, regardless of how good you are yourself. Pavel was something special, without a doubt.
I wish I could meet him, he's my inspiration, I started ice hockey two months ago age 14. now I'm play varsity for my highschool as a freshman. just playing and rewinding pavel datsyuk 's moves on my phone a practicing them.. he is everything to me..
Datsyuk trained with five pound weights on his hockey blade. Every stickhandling drill you can think of (and some you would never begin to imagine), he did it with those weights on his stick. Observe also that he had the biggest blade legally allowable in hockey. So much surface area to work with. His edge work is bonkers. Someone said that his center of gravity is between his crotch and the middle of his calves...and it is sturdier than a well pipe in a tornado.
I saw this video come up and I had to watch it. Datsyuk was the best player from a golden era of Detroit Red Wings hockey. He did things that were so incredible that it made me laugh. But it also made me sad because I doubt that the Red Wings will ever have anything close to Datsyuk again... let alone be again the dominant team they once were during my lifetime. It went by so fast.
Lol, Yzerman will have the Wings in dominant form within the next 5 years... I will come back to this video then, and we can discuss how Moritz Seider is going to be a Norris trophy winner for years to come.
Someone please find the fountain of youth so we can watch this guy play forever! I've been privileged to watch his career in Detroit. we've been lucky to have several greats skate in the Joe in my lifetime. Yzerman, Federov, Konstantinov, Lidstrom, Probert & Kocur, Datsyuk and Zetterberg. Now we have guys like Tatar and Nyquist, probably Mrazek making a bid and hopefully kids like Mantha, Athanasiou, Pulkkinen and Larkin soon to come.
I'll just get this out of the way before all the comments rush in and the fights start... - Yes, we know Omark did the flip move first. - Yes, we know Crosby + Ovechkin have produced more points offensively. - Yes, we all know Kane's hands are undoubtedly fucking amazing. Great, now let's enjoy Datysuk.
remember the allstar game weekend when they did the draft thing. out of all the stars there.. datysuk was pick #1 over Crosby malkin and all. think it was team chara who picked
This'll go right past most peoples heads because it's sort of obscure, but in many ways he's always reminded me of Tom Penny -- though I only just now figured it out. There's this weird natural, relaxed style they both have, that makes everything they do and try look so easy and natural that you might think the tricks are, in fact, easy. But then you go out and try it out for yourself and somehow elbow yourself in the groin.
I remember when I discovered him when I was 10 through NHL 2004 on my PS2. Always played with the red wings because I thought they were cheated in the game ! They aren’t, he is just cheated IRL 😂
2024. Finally,hall of fame named 5 players. Datsyuk one of them. 2 Stanley, world champion, Olympic champion, Gagarin cup. Unbelievable career for guy who choiced 171 on draft
With the 171 pick, the Detroit Red Wings pick....Pavel Datsyuk With the 210 pick, the Detroit Red Wings pick... Henrik Zetterberg With the 257 pick, the Detroit Red Wings pick...Tomas Holmstrom For $1, the Detroit Red Wings pick up Kris Draper Some pretty good picks around Pavel.
