1996 NHL All-Star Skills Competition - Fastest Skater (All-Star Friday)
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Participants:
Sergei Fedorov (Detroit Red Wings) vs. Daniel Alfredsson (Ottawa Senators)
Tony Amonte (Chicago Blackhawks) vs. Derek Plante (Buffalo Sabres)
Bret Hedican (Vancouver Canucks) vs. Shawn McEachern (Boston Bruins)
*Mike Gartner (Toronto Maple Leafs) vs. Peter Bondra (Washington Capitals)
*Gartner sets the record for the fastest time (13.386 sec), which would stand until Detroit's Dylan Larkin broke the record in 2016.
Competition originally took place on January 19, 1996 and broadcast nationally on ESPN, featuring commentary by Gary Thorne and Darren Pang.
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The real winner of this competition was Sergei Fedorov’s hair...
Al, just stole Sergei's hair win:
7:20
Fedorov*
Naaah , it was Messier’s hair for the win ! C’mon bruh? Why do you think he was out there before sweeping the ice ? It wasn’t for a clean surface I will tell you that . Like a barber in a parlor , he was looking for the hairs that fell out his head .
Incredible. Garthner was almoust 37 years at that time. And he won the race against Fedorov. Damn
so much for the age horshit theory lol and yet people will use that shit all the time.
@@michaeljoseph8674
Garts was such a pure skater, it's ridiculous how fast he was. Explosive start, insane travel speed. And to boot, he could fire the puck going at mach 10 as accurately as anyone in the league going half his speed.
@@11DNA11 too bad they traded mike from Rangers he deserved to win a cup. Mike's was one of the few players to not wear socks
Wow! Gartner vs. Bondra. #3 and #2 in all-time goals scored for the Washington Capitals. Ovechkin # 1.
Gartner vs Bondra? wow! that was a race!
The best-scoring Cap of the 80s against the best-scoring Cap of the 90s.
Prime Gartner or Bondra is faster than every guy in modern NHL. The same way prime Macinnis or Iafrate hit the puck harder than anyone today, probably even at 55. And also the same way Probert or Domi knock any of the new guys senseless. 90's hockey was where it's at.
Best comment!
80's - 90's
No disrespect to Glenn Anderson but I wish Gartner wasn't traded for him in 1994. I would have loved to have seen Gartner hoist the cup with the Rangers that year. At least they gave him a ring, but it's sad he never got to hold the cup.
Gartner had such a beautiful stride.
Fun to watch this event.... though it should be regulated more. The players sticks can stop the clock which shouldn't be considered part of the body. There is another video up showing Fedorovs body was ahead of Gartners at the finish. Also, this past year Larkin getting a start from the blue line before the time started at center ice was weird. Didn't think it should have counted as the record.
I'm not sure what the regulations were then, but in 2017 they go by the body not the stick.
If you look carefully you'll notice that they start a stick length from the red line, that's why it makes sense that they were able to stop the clock with their sticks as well
Even with Bondra it was just a hair for Gartner, if Bondra had stuck his stick out he would have won.
@@Steezboy3000 yeah, Bondra could fly right up there with Fedorov and Gartner! It's hard to have a clean run in this event.... Kuznetsov hit one of the cones yesterday and had a bad time. Maybe these guys need to get some pointers from the Olympic speed skaters!
6:35 "Well that's good to know thanks Billy" thats so funny to me lmao
Even Alfredsson was a rookie back then, and its only 96.
37 yrs old using equipment from 1996 and was only a couple one hundredths behind McDavid. Puts into perspective the devolution of the athletes
Gartner had a headstart
Bondra!!
Mike Gartner at 37 years old with ankle breaker old floppy leather skates is faster than 99% of the NHL. Today's players have custom molded skates...CUSTOM MOLDED and they can't keep up with an old guy from the 90s wearing skates that are 75% heavier. Let that sink in. Yet we're told that players today are "better than ever" and "faster than ever". Yeah...right. 80s and 90s NHL was the GREATEST ERA in hockey history.
5:53; That expression says it all.
these were the best days of my life
Why
I got a text that said I'll give you $30 if you tell me who won the 97 fastest skater competition. I guess Gartner, and lost because I was a year late. But I was the real winner getting to educate my friends on the fastest, lowkey superstar in NHL history. Gartner..what a stud.
Gartner was probably mid/late 30’s when he did this, old heavy skates/equipment, imagine if he had the technology of todays equipment how fast he would have been? I think it goes under appreciated just how good he was.
Yet we're constantly told how today's players would "run circles" around guys from the 80s and 90s. The reality is, it's the other way around. Gartner, Leetch, Gretzky, Lemieux, Messier, Yzerman...these guys would absolutely SMOKE this watered down garbage modern day NHL.
Mikes not even breathing hard.
what was bondra's time?
I remember it being around the Fedorov numbers. He was very close.
@@11DNA11 the pricks didnt even give bondra the time of day....Its probably because it was better than federovs time by far
Gretz looks so bored behind Gartner during the interview haha
NHL All Star Skills Competition at it's best! Now it's crap!
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I met mike Gartner
im still pissed they traded gartner the year the rangers won the cup! I know Messier had something to do with that! damn it Messier!!!! ;)
No, it was Keenan. He hated Gartner's guts. Messier and Gartner go way back to the old WHA days where they played together. They're friends. Keenan was a great coach but very unstable and nasty at times. He didn't like Leetch either and wanted to trade him for Chelios in 94, but thankfully Neil Smith didn't listen to that idiotic suggestion.
when somebody has in his gens speed i think it s not very big deferences between 20 old players and 40 old players.but gartner must be very good skater when he beats bondra and fedorov.
Early to mid 40s is when men experience significant physical decline. If you keep yourself in peak physical condition you'll decline more in speed in the 5 years between ages 40 to 45 than the 20 in ages 20 to 40.
I think Gaborik broke Gartner's record if am not wrong...
You are wrong
A few guys broke the time last few years but league cheated and gave them a different rink setup and also they let guys skate into line not a dead stop start.
Larkin broke Gartner's record, but he had the benefit of a moving start. MacDavid also broke it but the course he skated was shorter than Gartner's.
rivahkillah remember Gartner was also very old when he won each time 33 and 35. Forwards today hardly play at high level past age 32.
Charlie B
Exactly. He was 37 when he did this record. I'd like to see ANY aged current player try and beat the record on the same terms. Not gonna happen. It's not like McDavid or Larkin is going to break speeding records at 37.
This is with leather floppy skates at 37..Ill bet gartner wouldnt like todays stiff skates..Man you could get knee bends and control the old skates better than todays..Imagine gartner in todays composite skates..trust me automatic 20 percent faster
Michael Joseph
The fact that he did this at age and past Prime is truly amazing. It's definitely should put an end to these modern athletes being so much more Superior than older Generations.
Michael Joseph
He was totally an underrated player throughout his career.
If you score 700+ goals in the league. You're a superstar by those standards.
He was good but no wendle clark
They weren’t wearing leather floppy skates in 1996 dude stop it.
@@timhick6 lol ok Mr. Cherry
McDavid broke Gartner's official record last season.
i looked at the record book, he's not in there...stop licking his ass
and if he did win he beat a guy in leather skates that was 37
He didn't. McDavid had a flying start. Gartner started from a stand still.
And Gartner was 37 when he did this.
11DNA11 mcdavid did not have a flying start
@@ohyeahyeah751
He also didn't skate around the whole rink. Gartner is THE fastest skater in NHL history.