Gino Odjick hospitalised....

[bibitte2]

Sad...sad news,

Gino Odjick was hospitalised this week-end....suffering from mental problems.....confused and agitated...

last week, at RDS, they invited old enforcers and he was on the panel and he was already confused and i was stunt to see him not making a full sentence and forgetting was he was saying....you can see the eyes of the other guys around him fée long bad for him

look at this link....you will see he's in bad shape in the interview.....some says he was high....

Sad...

link.....

[centrehice]

He's got to be properly checked-out for those reoccurring concussion symptoms. Geno has always been a little eccentric, but slurred speech is a real indicator of a larger problem.

He's one of the good guys, I can only wish him the best of success and good medical people to help him.

[mooneyes]

Sadly, the human brain is one of the few things that can be repaired or...transplanted, :/ Play golf kids, just make the cut and finish last and you still get a big wad of dough...

[Rockin Robbie]

Wow, he's spent 32 MONTHS in the hospital since he retired in 2002. Really sad and scary story. Hope things get better for him.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/2013/12/0...ears-of-fights

Edit: Unless of course he was confused about that too...

[centrehice]

The NHL and the NHLPA both need to be proactive and get money into a specific fund for his very purpose of protecting their retired players who have suffered the devastating affects of concussion, and are now in medical peril.

It cannot come soon enough.

[bibitte2]

They wont put any money in to a special fund, that would be admiting that there's a problem.....and Betman said in front of the camera that it's part of the game....

the lawsuit is going to change there thinking....

personnally, we all have to question ourselves if fighting should still be part of the game.....when my son told me he wanted to play elite racquetball instead of hockey...as a Father, i was happy....goes to show how critical this situation is....

what if the NHL stated that if you fight you got 20 games...you slash...you get 20 games....that should change the culture dont you think....

you do it again, you get 50 or 60 games....

i dont know, but it's sad to see...when there's a fight...what if they go to the commercials instead of showing the fight....

Everybody's involved as a part of responsability....

[cygnusx1]

They wont put any money in to a special fund, that would be admiting that there's a problem.....and Betman said in front of the camera that it's part of the game....

the lawsuit is going to change there thinking....

personnally, we all have to question ourselves if fighting should still be part of the game.....when my son told me he wanted to play elite racquetball instead of hockey...as a Father, i was happy....goes to show how critical this situation is....

what if the NHL stated that if you fight you got 20 games...you slash...you get 20 games....that should change the culture dont you think....

you do it again, you get 50 or 60 games....

i dont know, but it's sad to see...when there's a fight...what if they go to the commercials instead of showing the fight....

Everybody's involved as a part of responsability....

The issue is the staged fights. Odjick had 237 career fights. That's why his brain is what it is right now. I've been in two fights in my life and suffered a concussion in both (although they weren't really fights, both times I was sucker-punched from behind). And Odjick's fights were against people much stronger than the ones I was up against.

Fighting will always be in the game, but it's the pointless fights that should be taken out.

[mooneyes]

The NHL will have ZERO choice but too eliminate fighting now that they cannot hide behind the, "there is no clinical evidence" that being punched in the face a few hundred plus times causes irreversible brain damage. If they continue to support fighting, as they are now, They will absolutely get slaughtered in a Law Suit...maybe not next year or the year after...but eventually, when George Parros and a slew of his incredibly hard hitting peers are in even worse shape than Gino, the NHL will get cleaned out for supporting it while KNOWING the implications. Ignorance is no longer a Defence.

* In the meantime, where is Pavel Bure when Gino now needs someone to support him like Gino did for him? He has no obligation, but....it would be the decent thing to do when you have enough $ that you wouldn't even notice if a million dollars went elsewhere.

[centrehice]

George and Co, all got hit a lot less than Geno. Geno is from the O'Reilly/Probert eras, where guys simply pounded each other for minutes at a time.

George is from the 10 second NHL fight club.

[mooneyes]

Well hate to split hairs with ya Tim, today's fight maybe shorter, but regardless, ole Parros has dropped em 214 times as a pro. No matter the length, 214 bare knuckle fights against the likes of ORR -13, Mclaren 6, Scott-4, Boogard -3 and so on....and on, even if he ONLY took 10 clean shots from these monsters in 214 fights, that is enough to turn his brain to mush, as each successive concussion has a cumulative effect, which no doubt explains why a once very intelligent Princeton grad now doesn't have enough "brains" to quit before its too late, as it already is.

I 100% hope I am wrong, but I wouldn't bet 5$ that when Parros hits the age of 45 his quality of life will be horrific and no amount of money, if he gets any, will compensate for having a turnip for a brain.