After photographing the women for USA hockey over the last week, it was time for me to capture the first men's game. Both are equally amazing to shoot, and there are some key differences in the way that they play and I shoot. I will take you through that in a little bit.
I went over to the entryway area to capture images of the men coming onto the ice for warm-ups. I positioned myself so that I would get the Milan Cortina logo over them, but since I was shooting with the RF 70-200mm lens, it was not wide enough.
I stood slightly off-center behind the net and took photos of them warming up. I caught this photo of Vincent Trocheck firing a shot, with the puck coming right at me. I took about 100 images and then ran back to my laptop to submit some of those photos.
Before the game started, I went back to the same entry area, this time with the Canon RF 7-14mm fisheye lens to get a wide shot of them entering the ice arena. You can see how different it looks from the first shot, just using a different lens and moving off to the left a little.
Then is was time for some action.
The men move faster than the woman, and I had to adjust the shutter speed up a little more. This time around I was shooting at 1/1600 for many of the photos.
Brady Tkachuk was the first to score a goal and turned right in front of me for this awesome reaction. This was my favorite photo of the evening.
I forgot how hard these guys hit the boards. If you saw some of the big hits right by me on TV, you may have read my lips and seen me say something not politically correct. Something like "Oh $%#$%! They hit hard!"
I try to capture images of every player on the ice, and even better if they have the puck.
In this shot, you see J.T. Miller tipping in a goal...
...and the celebration. But just like the other goal scored previously, this one was called a "no-goal" because of goaltender interference.
You might be wondering why I would submit this image to the team. I felt that with two goals being overturned, the refs were part of the story and needed to be shown.
I always love capturing the action in front of the net.
Here I captured one of the Latvian skaters mid air in front of Connor Hellebuyck (the goaltender).
A nice poke check from Noah Hanifin...
..and a solid goal (which did count) for the 6 foot six tall, Tage Thompson.
I was glad that he turned and did this fist pump after the goal.
Auston Matthews (team captain) making a play.
The team had a solid 5 to 1 win against Latvia.
Before leaving the ice, I saw a bunch of the guys waving to family members. I was able to catch some nice images of that. And tonight I will be photographing game number two for them.
Please excuse any typos. Normally I try to proofread everything before I post, but here at the Olympics, time is a commodity. I definitely miss some things. :)
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