re: auston matthews... all the twitter men are like "so-and-so played through [insert horrific injuries] why can't this jerk man up and play!!!" but shouldn't your reaction be, oh my god, if HOCKEY doctors won't let this guy play, he must be literally on death's doorstep???
every few months i get a little crayzay about the russian five. and. this past addictive streak has been since jan, yet i dont have much to show fer it...
the thing about that kid is like okay sure iāll play along with you and iāll pretend every hit heās ever laid is totally clean and any injuries were just freak incidents of bad luck because heās so tall and he would never want to hurt anyone and his team is definitely not encouraging him to hurt anyone. okay? everything iām about to say is taking all of that in consideration in good faith. if these are the results of good, clean hits, and theyāre legal, then the nhl needs to change its rules about hits. i donāt care if someone is 6ā7. if they canāt finish a hit without direct head contact they shouldnāt be laying them at all. āaw, that sucks, why does he have to play differently than anyone elseā because everyone else seems capable of not knocking out multiple players in a season where they had the second lowest ice time in the league. sorry! players not getting traumatic head injuries is more important to me than making sure everyone can hit anyone they want however they want in the name of fairness, and it should be for the league too.
i donāt understand why this is controversial. last season when i said if an elbow to the head in the middle of the ice is a legal hit they need to change what a legal hit is i got so many people angry with me and itās like, for what? for what? i am not talking about these types of players on a personal level, i am not insulting teams out of rivalries, i am not implying all fans of these players or teams are bad people. when a style of play has proven to be dangerous time and time and time and time and time again, then that style of play needs to be removed from the game. if next season sidney crosby decided his new move was laying out opponents by elbowing them in the head i would feel the exact same way. if you absolutely cannot play hockey without posing serious and long-term risk to the health of your opponents on the ice, you should not be playing hockey. the end. legal hits clean hits head down height difference i donāt care it doesnāt matter. even believing that itās an accident every time. you should not be on that ice if you are incapable of playing safely.
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