Concussion List

[SkyFire47]

and you can add Brian Rolston to the list:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=606660

[duwal]

Pronger has now been ruled out for the rest of the season including playoffs

[TysonX504]

and you can add Brian Rolston to the list:

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=606660

Pronger has now been ruled out for the rest of the season including playoffs

list updated to reflect these

[TysonX504]

Lol 4 pens

Its unbelievable what has happened they need to change the size of the pading.

It's actually listed as 5 pens. Petersen and Bortuzzo are both in the pens system with Michalek, Crosby and Letang

[mr ozzie]

That is a disturbingly long list. But there's no problem, right Mr. Bettman?

My question is would that list be just as long 10-20 years ago? I listened to a Roenick interview a few days ago and he's told stories about getting knocked, get up, walked to the locker room and not remember any of it. Never admitted to the trainers that he was experiencing headaches, or any type of pain (lower or upper body). He played through his injuries because he knew as soon as he told someone that he's hurt, he'd be taken off the lineup. In his opinion, that was the culture back then when he was playing - take it like a man and just play. Obviously now the culture is different. Our knowledge of concussions is considerably better. Everyone that gets knocked these days goes through a battery of tests right away. Just saying.

[Wickabee]

I agree. I don't think there are actually more concussions than there were 20 years ago, I think it has more to do with the fact that 20 years ago, concussions were a bit of a mystery to say the least. These days most fans can almost tell while watching at home if a guy has a concussion or not.
We just know so much more about it (yet still very little) and concussions are so much more easily recognized these days that it makes sense the true number isn't going up, just the known number.

Of course, now I'm comparing stats we simply don't have, that being the real amount of concussions 20 years ago, or even now. How many guys are still skating around with the "take it like a man" attitude about brain injuries?

We'll never really know the real numbers, so making the comparison is kind of futile. The only thing we know for certain i the number of known/reported consussions has gone way, way up in recent years.

[bojohnson]

20 years ago a headache or pain in the head wasn't classified as a concussion
Now it is

[aaron flyers]

Considering how fast the game is, and how hard the equipment is I'm surprised there aren't more.

Getting hit by a piece of hard plastic is the cause for most of the injuries.

Getting hit with the 80 style padding would be safer, plus you would have more scoring as there would be less blocked shots.

agree 100%

[duwal]

add Colby Armstrong to the list. Didn't tell the team doctors that he was feeling symptoms after getting hit

http://espn.go.com/nhl/story/_/id/73...ely-concussion

[centrehice]

I'm not sure about the concussion rate from the older days vs today. You would have trouble capturing that old data simply because in the olden days, guys just went out and played.

Broken bones, hangovers, concussions, you were called a wuss if you could still stand up and you missed a shift.

Really hard to compare data. I think it would be very similar. The only thing that has changed with concussion, is, it's more easily diagnosed now, and it's after-care is far superior.

Granted your average thumber of today is faster than the thumbers of yesteryear, but today forward pylons can not skate backwards, in the old days they could. The game overall is faster today.