NHL Player Safety is full of ****. So our player gets hit late in the head hard enough to give him a concussion, exactly what PS says they want to reduce, but they refuse to even look at it.
Why does the NHL front office hate the Sharks so much. All the calls and suspension go against us literally from before the first puck was dropped (remember 1991 draft where the Sharks should have been allowed to draft Lindros?).
Kurz has actually pretty much said the opposite. He's just quoting Doug here. Everything Kurz has said about the hit basically says he thinks it was late and dirty, but not direct contact to the head which doesn't result in suspensions.I'm agreeing with Kurz for once.
Parros is such a *****
Kurz has actually pretty much said the opposite. He's just quoting Doug here. Everything Kurz has said about the hit basically says he thinks it was late and dirty, but not direct contact to the head which doesn't result in suspensions.
I agree and think the late hits actually have a more sinister intent. It's easy to accidentally make minimal head contact in a fast pace open ice hit, i.e. Karlsson. The Bennett hit in a chippy game with 20 seconds left clearly had a sinister intent, but the league only cares about liability, not what is actually right.And that's exactly what players safety doesn't get. On multiple occasions they suspended players for minimal or so called (I couldn't even see it) head contact when nobody got hurt. While I agree that high hits are dangerous, late hits are much worse. If I'm skating with the puck I'm expecting to get hit even if I have my head down. Once I got rid of the puck I don't expect to get hit. Both McAvoy and Simek got hit several seconds after passing the puck.
I didn't see a hit to the head, I'm guessing Simek head hit the ice resulting in the concussion. That said, if it was an illegal hit (late, charging), resulting in an injury how is it different than Karlsson's?
Also the Doug Whine Wilson thing is real. At the time I wasn't happy about Doug calling out the league for Raffi because I didn't want it to influence the league later.
Sorry to hear Simek is hurt, he's been playing great. More importantly concussions are no joke
Hits to the chest that cause whiplash also often cause concussions, too.Hits to head are bad but late hits or slewfoots are worse despite no direct head contact. They come unexpected and result in head injuries far more often than high hits.
A pragmatic silver lining: Bennett is not a good player, and is one of the biggest top 5 pick fails in recent memory. I think having him in the lineup might actually hurt the flames more than help them.
You don't need to be hit in the head to cause a head injury. Your brain can rattle around just as much from a whiplash type motion, which definitely happened on that late hit. It's not getting hit in the head that is the danger, it's what the brain is doing inside of that head. On a late hit like that, Simek isn't prepared to be hit, especially as he just passed a puck away to waste time to end the game that was completely over. When your body is not prepared, bad things happen.
100% agree with you both. Doesn't mean the league does. Whatever you think about potentially negative perspective on SJ from the league (can't remember a particularly favorable DOPS decision myself), im trying to identify consistent logic.
You don't need to be hit in the head to cause a head injury. Your brain can rattle around just as much from a whiplash type motion, which definitely happened on that late hit. It's not getting hit in the head that is the danger, it's what the brain is doing inside of that head. On a late hit like that, Simek isn't prepared to be hit, especially as he just passed a puck away to waste time to end the game that was completely over. When your body is not prepared, bad things happen.