Even though I have no idea what “visual training” is, I admire Ryan Strome and his willingness to do what it takes to better his game. In a recent interview with 630 CHED, he said he’s been seeing a specialist in Toronto to try and make his eyes work together.
I’ve always kind of had an eye that doesn’t see as well as the other, so I’ve tried a different approach…Theoretically the idea is to instead of kind of be guessing where the puck could be by your vision not being up to par… Hopefully it can make things a little bit easier and your instincts can take over and your brain knows what you’re doing.
This all sounds wild to me. Did the Oilers know he had eye problems before they resigned him to a $6.2 million, two year deal? Yes that’s a joke. I’m really hoping that this eye training steps his game up to the next level. Could you imagine if we saw a completely different Ryan Strome next season who puts up 60 points? I’m going to be dreaming of that tonight.
This reminds me of Willie O’Ree, who was apparently 95% blind according to his Wikipedia page. He managed to hide this fact from the NHL so they wouldn’t take away his ability to play the game when he got called up. Of course this was in 1958 so I don’t even know if eye tests for hockey players were a thing back then.
Here’s to Ryan seeing the puck better than ever next year!
Hopefully he’ll be able to see all those open nets he passed up
Oh look, an easy cheap shot…how original….
Heard Strome was getting it on with Sharon Cox.
I have a friend who didn’t get glasses until he was ten. The first game he played after getting glasses he scored acouple of goals and was so excited. He finished the game and went right over to his mother. Smiling ear to ear he said, “Ma I could see the puck! it’s so much easier now!”
He never was that great at hockey even after getting glasses but up until then he just skated around following all the other players/blurry figures on the ice.
Tell me leas
Less*
Strome’s biggest holdback was how slow he was from my eyes. Remember when they tried him with McDavid and he was like a fish out of water in the neutral zone when McDavid was already crashing the crease.
In all seriousness though, I think Strome has all the tools to be a long term successful 50-60pt NHL’er if he could increase his speed. I’d be doing 1000 squats a day if I were him.
I think it’s the same eye training that Taylor Hall is doing. So it must be good.
So…….no seeing eye dog on the ice?
There goes that
Strome hitting 60 points this season sounds like a stretch. There is hope that now he can focus on the role of 3rd line center so he knows what is expected and should build on last season.
My daughter does a form of visual training with her mental skills coach. It’s training the eyes, much like training any other part of the body. Believe it or not, she has bought into it. She feels it makes her eyes quicker to see things in her peripheral vision.
Does your daughter like Sharon Cox?
Has anyone ever bitten on this joke? Besides your grade 4 classmates that is.
While not training, better this than video games.
Nice we traded two eyed 25 goal scorer for one eyed 13 goal scorer. Sounds like a classic Peter Cheralli trade.
half the price means half the eyes. Its only fair.
O’Ree was 95% blind in his right eye only. Or as Gene would say, “a one-eyed Willie”.
Met Willie O’Ree at a volunteer gig. Great man, humble, funny as hell, we listened to him tell stories for an hour. They did do eye tests back then, but they only had one board to read letters from so he’d always start with his good eye and remember them during his bad eye test.
Other funny note was that his game really suffered for awhile after his eye injury, until he was traded. The new coach wanted to play him on his off wing. The result was that his good eye now faced the middle of the ice instead of the boards, he saw the game better and starting potting goals again!
Here’s hoping Strome goes all David Oritz on the show this yr
Visually Better!
Whatever works…
Sounds like something they have been doing in baseball for years.
Took him this long to try to fix not being able to see.
If he had to guess where the puck was during games, he should have had this checked out long ago.
Great news for Strome and Oiler fans if this gets fixed, not so good news for his IQ – very questionable.