Scientists reveal the secret to hockey's wrist shot

By Dan Peterson, LiveScience Sports Columnist.  A team of Canadian researchers believe they have isolated the key components of a successful wrist shot using 3-D motion capture analysis. Professors David Pearsall and Rene Turcotte, along with graduate student Yannick Michaud-Paquette of McGill University have studied how the mechanics of the hockey stick and blade affected the flight of the puck.