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Originally Posted by Street Pharmacist
That's actually wrong. The total injury risk was the same. The increase was only seen on injuries requiring more than 7 days to heal and was not substantial (IRR 0.67 CI 0.49-0.99). Catastrophic spinal and brain injuries for these peewee kids are almost 4 times higher than high school and college American football!
Again sacrificing these peewee kids for what does not appear to benefit anyone is foolhardy.
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Do any of these studies say which level of hockey they were playing? Div 1,2,3 and so on? I would imagine their is significantly more injuries in divs 4-8 then 1-3? I think they should have given the head shot rule a little more time to see if it changed anything. As were only just now seeing the crop of players it affected.
Also with Quebec no checking, we played their this winter, and the games were definitely a lot chipper. Also talking to the refs there they call the headshot rule extremely different then here, if at all. We definitely saw 10x more head shots in our games there then here. Not saying its relevant just seems weird thinking they banned body checking but are slack on head shots which youd think would go hand in hand.