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#ICYMI: Hockey: Physics on Ice (Part 1)

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🗓️ 15 June 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Get your skates, grab your stick, and join Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly as they find out why hockey has more science in it than any sport on Earth! With physics professor Alain Haché, Bauer Hockey’s Craig Desjardin, and LA Kings color commentator Daryl Evans. Don’t miss an episode of Playing with Science. Subscribe on: iTunes Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/playing-with-science/id1198280360?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/startalk/playing-with-science TuneIn: http://tunein.com/radio/Playing-with-Science-p952100/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/startalk_playing-with-science GooglePlay Music: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iimke5bwpoh2nb25swchmw6kzjq NOTE: StarTalk All-Access subscribers can watch or listen to this entire episode commercial-free. Find out more at https://www.startalkradio.net/startalk-all-access/

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0:00.0

I'm Gary Arraile.

0:11.8

I'm Chuck Nice.

0:13.8

And this is playing with science.

0:15.9

Yes.

0:16.9

Yes, it's high time.

0:17.9

We got a skates on, grabbed our pads and took to the ice and found out why hockey probably

0:23.7

has more science in it than any other sport on Earth.

0:27.7

Period.

0:28.7

Period.

0:29.7

I don't believe it.

0:30.7

Stick around because this is part one of our two part series looking at the fastest team

0:34.6

sport in the world.

0:36.0

And to begin, we examine the science of the shot, the past and the engineering and tech

0:41.0

inside the sticks that bring it all together.

0:44.0

Wapah, pal.

0:45.0

Yeah.

0:46.0

And illuminating for us will be Alan Heshe, physics professor and author of Slap Shot

0:52.3

Science and the physics of hockey.

0:54.4

And before Chuck takes another spin on the Zamboni, we will catch up with the VP.

0:59.7

The MVP of product at Bauer, hockey equipment, Craig, the Jardin.

1:04.0

So if you want to know what goes into the kit, he is certainly the man.

1:08.6

And last but by no means least, we're going to hear from Darryl Evans of the LA Kings

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