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Denis Kulyash

Fastest ice-hockey shot in any competition on the Guinness record: 110.3 mph on 5 February 2011 at the KHL All-Star skills event. Sportsnet and the record both print 110.3.

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Ball speed

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Fastest recorded ice-hockey shot in any competition, Guinness. Denis Kulyash, KHL All-Star skills competition, St. Petersburg, 5 February 2011. 110.3 mph is 177.5 km/h. The NHL skills record is a separate row.

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In context

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Worked out from the sourced figure above, which stays the ranked number.

Mechanism

Why it's so fast

Denis Kulyash's shot speed comes from the stick unloading. The shaft bends, stores energy, and throws the puck as it straightens. Skating speed is not this number.

  1. Stick flex

    Loading the shaft and letting it rebound adds puck speed beyond the speed of the hands. The flex has to match the shooter's timing.

  2. The measured shot

    Denis Kulyash's figure is the shot the event printed. A skating top speed is a different measurement and is not substituted.

Nearby on this list: Zdeno Chara.

Provenance

Every measurement

Claimed, measured and official figures side by side, each with its source. The ranked figure is marked.

  1. 178km/h110.3mph49.3m/s95.8knRanked figure

    Fastest recorded ice-hockey shot in any competition, Guinness. Denis Kulyash, KHL All-Star skills competition, St. Petersburg, 5 February 2011. 110.3 mph is 177.5 km/h. The NHL skills record is a separate row.

    Sportsnet and the Associated Press via The Columbian both print 110.3 mph that day. Guinness's 177.5 km/h is that mile figure. An older Chara mark is given as 105.4 mph in 2009 on the Guinness page and as 105.9 mph in 2011 in the press, so that earlier shot is not stored.

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Reference

Specs

Player
Denis Kulyash
Event
KHL All-Star skills
Speed
110.3 mph
Date
5 February 2011

Context

Background

Guinness records the hardest ice-hockey shot in any competition as 110.3 mph, also 177.5 km/h, by Denis Kulyash of Avangard Omsk at the KHL All-Star skills competition in St. Petersburg on 5 February 2011. Sportsnet prints 110.3 miles per hour at that skills competition. The Columbian's Associated Press account prints 110.3 mph the same day.

The scope is any competition, which is why a KHL skills shot leads an NHL skills shot. 177.5 km/h is the kilometre writing of 110.3 mph. The press and Guinness disagree on Chara's older number, 105.9 against 105.4, so that earlier shot is not a row.

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