P. Marlowe

 

because we are talking about perfectly trained adults here, they are the players and I would guess that they now exactly what is best for them and what is not.

 

This is just like people saying that they want a no helmet law when it comes to riding a motorcycle.  These perfectly intelligent and trained adults know the risks.  So there should a no helmet law right?  If someone gets into an accident and has a head injury which puts them in a care facility for the rest of their lives, they will be going after the insurance company, the driver, the state, and everyone else they can get money from.

 

The problem is that these hockey players are going to be fine with it until one of them takes a stick to the eye and then their career comes to an abrupt end.  Like Manny Malhotra who has played in 9 games since his eye injury and it looks like his career is finished.  He is going to get as much from NHL disability as he can.

 

There are times when people must be protected from themselves.  Just like people should be forced to wear a helmet when they ride a motorcycle, players should be told to wear visors.  They aren't growing eyeballs in petri dishes, and all it takes is one stick to end your career.  I think that visors, like helmets in the past, should be grandfathered in.

I've did a little maintenance work in some Walmarts. I could be hanging a door or painting a wall, fairly low risk work but it is mandatory to wear gloves, steel toed boots, long sleeved shirt, hard hat, high viz vest and eye protection. I don't have 6'3" 200lb men coming at me with sticks but its designed to help me go home in the same nick I left the house in the morning. It's about changing attitudes, it's unacceptable for people to get seriously hurt in a life changing way in the workplace. Used to be people wouldn't wear their high viz, now you can't get people to take them off. Give the visor rule time, if it helps one guy to be able to see his grand kids and tell them what it was like to be a Wing without being blind in one eye or have a scared face from an errant stick is that not worth it? It's not about dressing like a 9th century Knight, it's about protecting bits of the anatomy that don't get better with rest and recouperation.

Stupid offer by Calgary...can't believe the Avs were so arrogant as to not take it. Avs need to reload....would have been a steal. 

It's like they're shooting stupidity at each other.  

 

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Steve Yzerman is a level headed individual and he should be the NHL commissioner.  Maybe then the NHL and hockey in general will be in the spotlight for positive reasons.

 

I love Stevie.  I really do.  But I don't think even he is strong enough to take on the evil that job involves. 

 

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It's not fun to be in Marian Hossa's shoes where you're high stick caused the end of someone's career, it can have a traumatic effect on how you go on in life. If a simple rule can cut down on those situations I don't see the big deal about it.

Was there this much fight when they mandated helmets and nut cups?  I remember that there was when they argued the former, but I don't recall any fury over the latter.

*queue my one allotted sexist comment for the day*

Are any of us surprised that most men value their balls over their brains?!

*thus ends my rampant sexism for the day. I apologize.*

Back on topic, I totally agree with the concept that an individual should be able to make their own dumbass decisions about how they want to impact their health (smoking, triple double baconator of death, willingness to take pucks to the dome)--given that that decision does not adversely affect others. These players are not only investments money-wise on someone else's insurance dime, but as others have pointed out they are an investment that a team makes to reasonably assume that a particular role is filled, frequently long term, on their team. Their coaches rely on them being there. Their teammates rely on them being there. And I, as a fan, rely on them being there and doing everything they can to ensure that my team stays competitive. If a player wants to have unprotected sex with a Thai hooker whilst drinking moonshine and inserting cockroaches into his ass, fine. Just don't flipping do it while you're signed to play for my team.

So...uh...I guess I feel the same way about the visor issue. Signed to play for my team? Then wear a damn visor, wear a damn helmet, and no damn Thai hookers.  *Mic drop*

 

Go fricking figure.  
 
Will this shut the Cleary cretins up?   Will this get them off his back?  
 
Nawww....Hell, he shoulda been scoring goals even with a broken back.
 
And don't tell me that was only for the last two games.  Did any of you see him let up?  To all of you Cleary haters out there, move on and get.a.life.  Pick on someone your own size because you'd never ever fit in his skates.  

Please excuse the fact that this is the GDT from Game 1. Inexplicedly, my file for today was lost. Wouldn't you know it?

So I thought long and hard about how I could make this even funnier, and in the end, I came up empty.  Resizing a screen cap counts as a photoshop, right?