Meet Al Iafrate: The Man With The Fastest Hockey Shot In History | Pat McAfee Show 

Al Iafrate is out there clockin 105 with a dog bone and dude captures every frame with a 250 pound camcorder. Old school hockey was great

The exact reason why this show needs to continue the hockey talk 😂

Al Iafrate could hit a puck across the Great Lakes and knock a beer can off the dock. What a beast

10 minutes of pure gold

Old footage used a long lens which will compress then depth of the shot, meaning the puck will look slower as it seems it's is traveling less distance. New footage had a wider lens which does not compress the depth of the shot as much. Meaning the puck looks like its traveling a more accurate distance which will make it look faster. Also different camera angles make a difference.

He hit 111.1mph at the Capitols team skills day. Hardest shot ever recorded but considered unofficial because it wasn't league verified with an NHL representative present to inspect the materials used. Absolute CANNON

He would smoke butts between shifts on the bench. Absolute legend.

Its legit. The angle just makes the puck easier to track than charas.

The Skullet

I predict he is on the show in the next few weeks The turn around from dissing this guy and then just praising him was awesome. Best part of this show.

105 with a wooden stick is amazing

Al Iafrate didn’t have a muffin He had a heavy hard shot It’s legit

Finally a real mans sports. Instead of talking about kicking a ball all day.

Al Macinnis, Bobby Hull and Al Iafrete could take the new breed to school. They had more time and space to shoot. Big curves on their blades too which helps. Laminate wood/ fibreglass sticks had enormous potential energy but didn’t last long. Heavy and fragile but when they flexed and survived they really revved the puck.

I wish Al Macinnis was mentioned in this video, dude had a monster slapshot 😏

Al Iafraite coached at Compuware arena in Plymouth MI I witnessed him with a new one piece stick hit 110

This is one of the funniest clips in this shows history!!

Give Al a composite stick back then his shot would’ve hit 110 easy!

He actually took a Slapshot. Broke the Kelly Hrudey shoulder pad and shattered the glass. Al was a beast and could chuck the knuckles as well.

It's like toddlers not understanding that if you look at a f1 in perpendicular (facing the opposite side of the track) you barely see it at all, but if you look at it from behind it looks very slow... you cant see Chara's shot because they framed 3 feet beyond the stick (3 feet at 100mph is a split second) and in Lafrate's you see the whole 20ish feet from the stick to the net with even more distance between him and the stationary camera. Quick example look at recordings of a rocket launched into space it looks slow and watch the isle of man TT motorcycle race footage the motorcycles zoom past the camera in a few frames and you feel like they are insanely fast yet the rocket moves at 25 000 mph and the motorcycles go "only" 160mph. Perspective!

Al's son Max was a really good player, too. He played for a junior team I had season tix for. Nice kid and Al would occasionally be outside smoking a cigar. Al is a real cool guy.

I still have the VHS of that skills comp. I remember questioning that in ‘93. I couldn’t believe he could hit it harder than Al MacInnis.

As a hockey guy thank you for the coverage of my favorite team and one of my favorite players . Damn i miss those old school jerseys. John Druce had a slap shot too... Dale hunter, Rod Langway, Don Beaupre goalie, Alan May, Peter bondra ... caps fan since early 80s. Which brings me to YOU ya stooge. Ya yinzer , Patty McAfee... you pens fan.. you got at least 2 of our rings we shoulda had ya stooge. 😂😂😂

The original Skullet. Absolute beauty

He was such a character. I miss him in the NHL

And Big Al is still doing it. I played in a charity tournament with him, and when he wound up from the point, it was like the parting of the seas. Players were diving out of the way.

I had the pleasure of not alone meeting this man but taking a hockey camp he ran, I was the only cool cat to pull out the ole spin-o-Rama at the end when we did shoot outs for fun. He apparently was cracking up so says my father. He was cool tho, still could take a clapper around 90-100 my dad guessed based on his warm ups in the mid 2000s. I don’t remember much, I was really young but he was hugeeee and a tough looking sob

“The Planet” Al Iafrate! I remember him on the Sharks

Gotta get Al on the show. See what haircut he's rocking nowadays.

Subbed! Keep the hockey clips coming 😂 Cheers from Berta 🇨🇦

Al Iafrate is an absolute Bro. Get him on the show he’d fit right in. Might need to wait until it’s YT only though 😂

Need Al on show tomorrow

Bud, Mr. Pat McAfee has a lifelong fan in this guy, you're appreciation of hockey is beautiful!

The hockey lingo “heavy clapper” is the funniest part to me. I love hockey 😂😂

Martin Frk holds the record of hardest shot of 109.2 mph

Anybody else having NHL '95 flashbacks?

It’s legit 100%. Iafreighttrain’s shot was absolutely insane. With the new sticks he’d rip over 110 easy.

Love the hockey talk

One of my favorite segments ever growing up as a caps fan. We ALL knew Iafrate 😂😂

Lmao. Subban playing along is gold

It's always awesome how they bring these legendary stories and people front and center in 2024

Zdeno chara is the record holder. 108mph in 2012

Wendell Clark's wrist shot was pretty crazy

Knowing the deeper they would dive into the skullet, the more theyd love him.and watching that unfold was amazing lol 😂

Fun fact, Iafrate was one of the few guys who's slapshot could bust the head of a player open in some of the NHL games.

Its called FPS frame per seconds. Watching a old recording what do expect it appears even slower when you watch older footage.

This show is the freaking best! 😂😂

He came out to one of our practices when I was a kid. I was shooting with him after and the net was off the pegs. He kept moving it backward with each shot. HEAVY shot. 100+

Al is a personal friend of mine, he is such a solid guy, super nice and always willing to have a conversation with anyone. He doesnt have any hair now, and I dont think he would want the skullett back! lol

I grew up in Annapolis, MD. There was a station on Main St in downtown 30 years ago called WHVY. All hard rock and metal. Al Iafrate had a two hour show every week on WHVY where he would chat with the DJ and play curated tracks for two hours. It was called "Al Iafraite's Afternoon Power Play."

Love It Pat ThePatMcAfeeShow Bro Let's Gooooooooo.

Al Iafrate could clap a puck through a Tim Horton’s drive through window from 200ft, and it would pay for your coffee.

When they got that flow! 😂

Love ole Al Iafrate

Famously crushed darts back in the day. Fierce skullet. Total legend.

Iafrate will always be a beast, and the collective IQ of this panel will never exceed 105

Leafs legend Al Iafrate.

More Hockey talk Pat. This was wicked

The camera was set for Iafrate. For the Chara shot, the camera is moving behind him and Chara crosses in front of the camera. The camera can't zoom on the puck correctly. Of course you can't see it.

Love hockey is awesome segment

I saw this guy live years and years ago when he was with the capitals. It was before a game but at the end of warmups. He was hittin’ slap shots from the defensive zone blue line to the opposite end corners, puttin’ pucks consistently into the top 3 to 4’ of corner glass. It’s almost like he was trying to hit a strike zone from a 130 feet. That was pretty damn cool.

Ziggy Palffy another UNDERRATED legend

B.S., Bobby & Dennis Hull… Fastest shot❓ You really know the game, junior 🇨🇦

Gotta get big Al on the show!!

PK what a legend, good ol Canadian boy.

Iafrate and MacInnis were the absolute beasts of the slap shot. If a guy went down to block one of theirs, you'd often see them go to the bench and maybe even miss a shift, trying to recover from the impact of the puck.

This guy was the man

It's a lot easier to make it look faster with the camera moving, whereas Al Iafrate, it was a still camera.

One of my favorite stories from this is Al MacInnis, who I should hate as an Oilers fan since he was a legendary Flame, but I'm too young to remember that stuff and I gotta respect talent. Late in the '90s everyone was transitioning to the new carbon-fiber sticks but MacInnis liked the feel of the traditional wooden sticks and so stuck with them. He still won the hardest shot competition four years in a row (1997-2000). The Calgary Flames selected him in the 1981 draft for his shooting power alone (he developed everything else well into his career, but to start he was terrible at everything except blasting the puck). In his first full season, his slapshot split Mike Liut's goalie mask in 1984. Liut would go on to say "There's hard and then there's Al MacInnis hard. I tried to get out of the way. If it happens too often, you have to sit down and re-evaluate what you're doing with your life." I do remember Shea Weber's shot breaking the net though, and Phaneuf breaking the glass twice in the same game.

This is top 5 clips of the show, ever.

Started in the parking lot pk 🤣🤣🤣

Al Iafrate now lives in Plymouth, Michigannd this past summer had a birthday party and my son's band played for him. Said Iafrate is a super nice person and showed him all of his hockey memorabilia.

That’s Hockey Talk

i was listening on spotify and laughing so hard during this

Bobby Hull, 120 mph, Guinness Book of world records, sorry Al.

Al Iafrate went from hero to bum to legend in 10 minutes.

Camera technology was way different and why it looked slower

Dude invented the skullet too. Legend. I always toss him in when I play NHL 94 as All Stars East.

This was awesome

The deformation of Chara's stick is one reason he was able to get that speed not to mention when your 6'9" and 250 you got a whole bunch of momentum behind that stick.

My dad does main game cam, he hated the early 2010 era of using a handheld trailer cam in the shootouts with a passion, made you feel sick and couldn’t see anything. He couldn’t believe they opted to use it for the hardest shot competition.

Pure Gold

I wish Al Iafrate was there for this segment 😂 He had a short fuse. I witnessed it behind Piney Orchard practice facility. Ripped out of the parking lot on his Harley Davidson soft tail!!! The guy was bad ass!!!

Al Iafrate not only had one of the best clappers, but he he had one of the best quotes of all time. Look up is thoughts on empty net goals. What a legend.

Stationary camera from behind vs moving camera from behind or from the side. Stationary from behind the shot will track better.

When Sami Salo on Vancouver canucks was in second year... iafrate was Ufa... wanted him soooo much as a teacher for Sami

I believe his niece went to our school in Michigan. He was a legend. Look at that shot. He deserves way more respect, he did that 105 with a log.

A possible reason you can see Iafrate's shot and Chara's is blurry could be because one was recorded on analog media so it would be broadcast 60fps for standard North American 60hz NTSC televisions. Chara's might have been on digital so at that time maybe 30 fps - would look more blurry slowed down.

The skullet 😂

Al’s angle 100% better angle than any hardest shot in history!! 💚💚💚🇨🇦 I believe it still to this day!!

Al Iafrate is a pure bad ass. Show the man respect

GET THE LEGEND AL IAFRATE ON THE SHOW BOYS I hate it when people go all caps but this is important

Only he and Al McInnes could shatter the glass in EA Sports 94 hockey 😂

😂😂 gumpys hilarious here

Did not expect Pat to be talking about one of my favorite players ever

Al is awesome, I live in Metro Detroit, saw a Giant badass dude with a triangle bald spot running every day in the off season. I never bothered him, dude did talk to my GF a few times, smart man, but yelled AL every time I drove past which he would keep running and throw his hand up in acknowledgment. My man looked like a Tank. Pat doesn't believe the heat, I have been clocked at 80-90mph, I can waste one on his calf.

fking hilarious, please more hockey content

We've all Iafrate out to a few Golf Tournaments. He's a Weapon!

Iafrate vs MacInnis for hardest shot was awesome

San Jose Sharks Legend, Al Iafrate