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Originally Posted by jayswin
When the north/south netting came into play in the NHL after the tragedy in Columbus I actually couldn't believe they were implementing it. Now after all these years I was just thinking about how absolutely insane it is that we used to have thousands of fans sitting right in front of 70 - 100MPH slap shots that were a minor deflection away from zooming right at peoples heads.
And fans happily sat in these seats. Does that not seem crazy to think about now a days?  |
The glass also used to be a lot shorter then it is pre net. I remember Kevin Lavalle (Sp>) who played for the Flames had a extremely hard and uncontrollable slap shot. It was literally like a machine gun, he would put 4 or 5 hundred mile an hour slap shots into the crowd on a straight line a game.
There was one game that I remember where he hit a couple of fans and for the next few shifts came out with a towel around his neck to throw to a fan in case he hit them.