kingpest19
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- Sep 21, 2004
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The sticks weighed a ton and the skates back then sucked. Slower speeds plus no one is just swinging their stick around wildly.
And kids back then learned early on to keep their sticks down. When noone is wearing a helmet or face shield sticks tend to stay down. When cages and visors start coming into play sticks come up more. Having played for almost 16 years now I can say that for me having a visor or cage on I saw more than my fair share of sticks up around the head. I can count on one hand the times that while not wearing a visor I got clipped by a high stick or puck. On the other hand Ive gone through alot of visors because of scratches from high sticks.
The league I play in now most of the guys are pretty good about keeping their sticks down for the most part. Only been caught once in 4 years, but I am always harping at least once a game to watch sticks. Usually the offender is a guy wearing a full cage. Then ive had teammates who no matter what they wear , their head/face is like a magnet for pucks. Maybe Im just lucky.