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03-23-2013, 06:38 AM #1
First Visor Wearer Remains Advocate
For a true advocate of mandatory visor use in the N.H.L., talk to a hockey player who lost an eye playing the game.
“Yeah, I think visors should be mandatory, and right away,” said Greg Neeld, who lost his left eye to a high stick as an 18-year-old junior defenseman in 1973 and later developed the first helmet visor. “Why wait to grandfather them in? If you do that and it takes 10 years until everyone is wearing them, how many serious eye injuries will there be — three, four? Is it worth it?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/sp...atory-use.html
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03-23-2013, 02:07 PM #2
pretty soon the players will be preached to about which pair of underwear to put on before a game.They are adults,let them decide if they want to or not.
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03-23-2013, 06:36 PM #3
First the visors then in another 20 years they'll probably want to make cages mandatory as well. Let the player decide what they want to wear, if they don't want to wear a visor and take a stick/puck to the head hey thats their choice.
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03-25-2013, 04:52 AM #4
Due To Rules Violations
Ive seen some pretty horrific injuries due to visors... both directly (bridge of the nose,sticks getting caught etc) and indirectly like fighting... Take a look at a fight that happened in the AHL (mandatory all players wear a visor) a few years back involving Phantoms winger Garrett Klotz and Monarchs enforcer Kevin Westgarth... It was a good tilt, started out with both players dumping their lids(which had visors) in a sign of respect it ended with Klotz's head hitting the ice and he started going into seizures... Not from the fight itself, but because he had enough respect for Westgarth's knuckles and removed his visored helmet.... Freak incident for sure... but I don't believe this was the last time an incident has happened...
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03-25-2013, 05:43 PM #5
Cages are an abhorrence. It only teaches kids to attack with their sticks with no repercussion. It's like a reset button in a video game.
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