Last of the no visor breed

[FMichael]

Maybe the players who do it don't do it because it's "cool" but because they aren't used to it and it hurts their game. Not being mentally comfortable is bad while playing sports.

I personally never got used to wearing the full wire cage (I have a large noggin, and a long face thus I could never see the puck around my feet via peripheral vision, and always looked down while skating around)...To add I'm a bit of a heavy breather/sweaty kind of guy when I played, and even the plastic half shield constantly fogged up.

I wore contacts back then - if I were to join up with a men's beer league today - I'd look into wearing 'sports glasses'...A few guys I played with over the years wore them.

 

[Deen]

I personally never got used to wearing the full wire cage (I have a large noggin, and a long face thus I could never see the puck around my feet via peripheral vision, and always looked down while skating around)...To add I'm a bit of a heavy breather/sweaty kind of guy when I played, and even the plastic half shield constantly fogged up.

I wore contacts back then - if I were to join up with a men's beer league today - I'd look into wearing 'sports glasses'...A few guys I played with over the years wore them.

The old Horace Grant. I bet they become more popular moving forward.

 

[Bobby Orrtuzzo]

it is ****ing cool to not wear a visor

If not wearing a visor is cool, consider me Miles Davis!

 

[SotasicA]

I never wear a visor. I even dislike the helmet because I have incredible long flowing golden locks. But I do wear a helmet, I just use every possible excuse to take it off.

 

[GrizzGreen]

I never wear a visor. I even dislike the helmet because I have incredible long flowing golden locks. But I do wear a helmet, I just use every possible excuse to take it off.

my man

 

[Creativero]

If construction workers don't wear helmets, maybe they will be safer on the job.

If we took seatbelts out of cars, maybe everyone will drive safer.

I know you’re being sarcastic but there is a study the showed cab drivers without anti-lock brakes drove slower and had an equal safety record compared to cab drivers with anti-lock break. I personally broke my collar bone the first day I skied with a helmet. People really do just aim for some natural equilibrium point for risk/reward.

 

[8LX7psQ]

I know you’re being sarcastic but there is a study the showed cab drivers without anti-lock brakes drove slower and had an equal safety record compared to cab drivers with anti-lock break. I personally broke my collar bone the first day I skied with a helmet. People really do just aim for some natural equilibrium point for risk/reward.

What you’re talking about is called Risk Compensation. It’s a thing. There is evidence to suggest seatbelts, bicycle helmet , safer parachutes, etc don’t in fact save more a lives as the safer you feel the more risk you are willing to take.

Risk compensation - Wikipedia

 

[SleepyJoeyB]

Seems like a safe bet, he has a game that will age well. Unless of course he gets a serious eye injury from NOT WEARING A VISOR.

You mean like James Neal, Saku Koivu or Dany Heatley did while wearing a shield?

Opps.

Neal out of world championship with eye injury; Vlasic, Coburn join roster

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/heatley-seriously-injured-in-switzerland-1.515289