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Post by ashtait14 on Jan 20, 2012 10:57:43 GMT
I think it is suggesting they don't 'jettison' them. That fights are conducted using the helmets for protection. Fight stops if they are removed etc. It doesn't work. Tried it in the OHL a couple of years back. It just makes hand injurys and the risk to linesman getting hurt alot higher. I completely agree, it should be up to the fighters imo. I was just relaying the information from the article.
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Post by Doughnut on Jan 20, 2012 11:05:01 GMT
I think it is suggesting they don't 'jettison' them. That fights are conducted using the helmets for protection. Fight stops if they are removed etc. It doesn't work. Tried it in the OHL a couple of years back. It just makes hand injurys and the risk to linesman getting hurt alot higher. I'm not surprised about the hand injurys, though I'd risk a hand injury over a brain injury any day. Bit surprised about the linesmen, how many of them got hurt? How?
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Post by Robbie Nud on Jan 20, 2012 13:38:48 GMT
I would guess from from the helmets of the players who are by and large very much bigger than the lineys.
I have listened to the broadcast and you have both sides of the argument, but I noticed that the against side went on about two fighters against each other not enforcing as such. Yet Laroque (sp) mentioned about the enforcer being a policeman and taking those to task that overstep the mark such as running the keeper. If there was no fighting what would be done about the dirty players who cheap shot a guy with the elbow or stick. It is noticable that players like finnerty are quieter when they haven't got someone like king to protect them from a hiding after they have been slashing at the back of an opponents legs.
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Post by sambo79 on Jan 20, 2012 13:50:43 GMT
So Doughnut is basically trying to do people out of jobs by stopping fights and making the enforcer role redundant. I'm sure the very wealthy pro skaters around the world that have made their money punching each other in the face each week will be delighted with your view.
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Post by Doughnut on Jan 20, 2012 14:55:04 GMT
So Doughnut is basically trying to do people out of jobs by stopping fights and making the enforcer role redundant. I'm sure the very wealthy pro skaters around the world that have made their money punching each other in the face each week will be delighted with your view. Have you read this thread?
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Post by seedy on Jan 22, 2012 20:55:06 GMT
WHat the article doesnt pick up on is rypien suffered depression before he became an enforcer for a living. Wasnt it since his girlfreind died in car accident?
As for the link between depression and the role, I think thats more to do with the sort of person attracted to the role of enforcer rather than a previously sensible guy being driven to drugs and suicide because of the role he performs.
There may very well be a link between repeated blows to the head in fights and brain damage but Im of the camp that no one forces them to do it....
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Post by cooperphil156 on Jan 22, 2012 22:16:59 GMT
Sambo 79 "So Doughnut is basically trying to do people out of jobs by stopping fights and making the enforcer role redundant." Think that the argument has been lost here. Perhaps it might be about trying them to play ice hockey and not put peoples health in danger. Presumably the high probability of CTE degenerative brain damage is worth being involved continuously in fighting to make a living. Is having money worth the risk of this possibility, or could they explore other possibilities?
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