Why are these cardiac episodes more common in hockey?

[Ezekial]

Run a google search on "sideline", "collapse" and "football".

Like 10 examples since 2018 on the first page.

 

[Henkka]

Blood doping

Those three letters.

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P

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You thicken your blood for better perfeormance and then there's the higher risk for blood cots and cardiac arrest.

Some bodies can stand it better, and some won't.

 

[txpd]

The only thing different about the NHL in these situations than other sports is that the NHL is prepared for it and the players don't die. If you put basketball player dies on court into google you get repeated examples of this happening and the players die.

 

[swimmer77]

When I saw the subject line I immediately thought of basketball because I remember two in particular whose lives were cut too short: Reggie Lewis and Hank Gathers. Doing some research will find you more that passed on.

 

[bring back the jets]

Are they? It seems to happen way more in soccer

No. This type of event is actually more common in african athletes, who are far less prevailant in hockey than many other sports.

 

[sr edler]

I think it happens more in football also known as soccer, though that sport has a lot more players/practitioners than hockey so below list isn't a comparison by ratio.

List of association footballers who died while playing - Wikipedia

 

[91Fedorov91]

I wonder if anyone has ever tracked heart rates of athletes while participating in different sports? My extremely uneducated guess (not a doctor, although I did once pass out and get an ambulance ride due to dehydration) is that soccer incidents are tied more to dehydration combined with exertion and heat, whereas hockey incidents are tied more to high heart rates causing/triggering some irregularity.

Now days at least in MLS all players wear a monitor while playing to track their heart rates.
What are those black bands players wear on the training pitch?

 

[doublechili]

Now days at least in MLS all players wear a monitor while playing to track their heart rates.
What are those black bands players wear on the training pitch?

Interesting, thanks.

 

[jniklast]

Uhhh why does every soccer video include someone rolling around like they got their leg chopped off?

Because, sadly, diving and embellishment is condusive to success in soccer. There are lots of examples of soccer players being tough with injuries as well. And anyway, that doesn't really have anything to do with stamina and exhaustion. Soccer players run between 10-13 km per game with many intensive sprints. That is very exhausting and simply cannot be done two days in a row at the same level.

 

[Grifter3511]

How many do you remember OP?

Fischer and bouwmeester are the only recent ones that I remember..

November 2019 TJ Brodie

 

[Lady Rhian]

Is it me, or have these cardiac incidents seem to be occurring after the red line was taken out of the game (two line pass)?

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Peverly had heart surgery a year before his collapse and he still had a cardiac event.

Also, AFAIK, Fischer was never diagnosed with any underlying condition or pathology and same with Craig Cunningham who had to get his leg amputated. Scary stuff.

Fischer's was known, they had found heart abnormalities in his previous physicals. Similar to Peverley they thought they were addressing them and caring for it in the best possible manner. But the Wings doctor was aware, even referenced that when he first thought it was Mark Mowers but realized quickly it was Jiri and knew of pre-existing concerns and how dire the situation was.

 

[JerseyMike34]

He died of cardiac arrest and was an athlete so whats the problem?

Wrestlers are notorious for using copious amount of drugs. For a variety of reasons.