Concussion lawsuit against NHL

[Yotes]

On the back of the recent NFL one I'd imagine:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25097926

Ten former players have sued the National Hockey League (NHL), accusing it of not doing enough to prevent concussions.

The lawsuit seeks damages and medical monitoring for all NHL players who retired before 14 February 2013.

[Zukiwskyfan]

Ex London Knight Darren Banks is one of the 10 players. The list of players is embarrassing. I would be shocked if they even have 500 NHL games played between them. This is blatantly a money grab after the NFL payout.

Still though this could crush ice hockey as we know it. Not banning fighting is one of the arguments they are going with but also not banning body checking.

[ted logan]

Intersting piece at the end of that article too:-

www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16383129

[mattscold]

Really hope this gets thrown out... but, its kind of hard to argue with it really. As much as i like fighting, punching someone full force with your knuckles is going to do damage, and the NHL's reluctance (for obvious reasons) to clamp down on it, unfortunately in this case, incriminates them.