TheBigKahuna
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So I guess you were looking for a response where 3 guys challenged Cowen?
Do you think Cowen wet his jockies when he saw LaRose coming after him?
So I guess you were looking for a response where 3 guys challenged Cowen?
Of course not but Westgarth is a load and an experienced fighter. Your comment was that nothing was done, remember?Do you think Cowen wet his jockies when he saw LaRose coming after him?
http://blogs.newsobserver.com/canes/rutherford-skinner-not-concussed-by-hit
No concussion, per Rutherford
Haven't we heard that before?
It's my last straw as well. LaRose needs to go.
It's my last straw as well. LaRose needs to go.
On the other side of the coin, I would wager that you would anger a similar amount of people if you tried to do anything overt to protect your star players. People unable to see the larger picture will scream buzzwords like the "nanny state" and the "p***yfication of the game", stonewalling any attempt by the NHL to lessen the inherent danger of ice hockey.
On the other side of the coin, I would wager that you would anger a similar amount of people if you tried to do anything overt to protect your star players. People unable to see the larger picture will scream buzzwords like the "nanny state" and the "p***yfication of the game", stonewalling any attempt by the NHL to lessen the inherent danger of ice hockey.
If I were a parent, and I was watching the Skinner's, the Weiss's, the Pitkanen's, the Crosby's and all the stars of the League either out injured or running around with such a blatant bulls eye on their back, I certainly would be hesitant about getting my kids into the game. This can not be good for younger generation participation and the future talent of the NHL.
JR said it himself, this game is tough, and if you can't get over that, then you can get out. This mentality is going to hurt and/or kill the game.
Oh come one, kill the game? Youth hockey players now are as protected as it gets, and that's what parents care about. Parents care about a game's safety as it exists for their kids then and there or at least until they become adults. They don't extrapolate down from "When my little Johnny makes it to the NHL when he's 20-something, it's dangerous there!"
Seriously, some of you are getting overly-dramatic and making tenuous projections about something thats always been part of not only hockey, but any fast, contact sport. If you took every ounce of hitting out of the game, you'd still have injuries just as a result of the speed of skaters on slippery ice and the existance of boards, sticks, and flying pucks. Good players get injured all the time, so have star players.
Check your history folks, the sky ain't falling just because Skinner fell victim to inertia.
I said the mentality of "if you don't like it, you can GEEEET OUT!!!", the thinking that any and all change to the game is evil and should be told to sit in a side room and wait forever.
This kind of thinking, from the visor debate, to the helmet debate, to the original expansion era, is very prevalent in NHL history.
And yet those changes have occurred despite what you consider to be an inordinate amount of whining. They've made rule changes in addition to helmets and the incorporation of visors to protect the head from being targeted. How does this apply to Skinner? Make a rule change that states one player can't hit another if he's more than 4 inches taller and outweighs the other by 20+ lbs? The hitter must be stationary or moving slower than walking pace to nullify mass x velocity advantages? How about a minimum temperature in the arenas so the ice is guaranteed to be soft and slow for all players? Hey, slush is softer to fall on than hard ice too.
Edit: And you did try and make a direct connection between parents letting their kids play and seeing players at the professional level being injured.
And yet those changes have occurred despite what you consider to be an inordinate amount of whining.
Yeah, after Masterton got killed it only took 11 years for the league to grandfather in a helmet rule.
Yes they should have done it more quickly and saved all the lives lost during those 11 years. I remember that ghastly, interim time...Oh, the horror!
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I did. I also know parents who have kept their kids out of contact sports for such reasons.
But then, I grew up in Chapel Hill,
the most liberal place in the South.
Those types of parents have always been with us. To say they "kept their kids out" presupposes that the kid had an interest in playing that type of game in the first place. Sad that a parent would shoot-down a child's interest in anything if they can afford to support them in the endeavor.
My condolences
That's no excuse. Canada is liberal. Sweden is liberal. Minnesota is liberal. Mass is liberal and their parents dont' seem to have any problem letting their kids play hockey. No, perhaps there's something else at work in Chapel Hill like thinking basketball should represent the limit of player vs player physicality in sport. Or maybe they're soccer fans because they heard the Euros like it and think anything European, like eating salad after the main course or unpasteurized cheese, is always better?
Most likely, one of them heard the term "redneck hockey" on the way home from Occupying something and from that day forward the word spread amongst them this was NOT a sport to be associated with.
Intentionally missing the point?
A guy DIED as a result of a head wound and it wasn't enough to effect a change in priorities from "comfort" (which if we're being completely honest was more about looks) toward preserving players' gray matter.
There's no clearer example of the NHL not giving a five dollar **** about the players' safety, beyond trying to avoid bad press and potential legal actions against them.
Your argument about the NHL not giving a five dollar **** about player safety is ridiculous. Rules in existence long before the helmet rule (high sticking, spearing, boarding, etc etc) are player-safety oriented, as are others regulating hitting to an ever stricter degree since.
Intentionally missing the point?
A guy DIED as a result of a head wound and it wasn't enough to effect a change in priorities from "comfort" (which if we're being completely honest was more about looks) toward preserving players' gray matter.
There's no clearer example of the NHL not giving a five dollar **** about the players' safety, beyond trying to avoid bad press and potential legal actions against them.