This is a tough one. I always struggle with the whoa is me kind of stories you hear about NHL tough guys. The stories that are told with the angle of the "poor guys just trying to earn a living" fighting in the NHL, had no other choice, somebody should have looked out for him stuff. I always take a step back and go give me a break. We aren't talking about a last resort in terms of life options when we are talking about a choice to stick in the NHL. That's a choice one makes to earn hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to merely scrape by. There are other jobs to do in this world, they choose to take the punishment to earn big cash, NHL tough guy isn't anyone's last resort. So in that regards, these guys need to take responsibility for the choices they made / make.
On the other hand, if team and league doctors aren't doing the right things, and aren't looking out for the players best interest when they treat them, that is something that needs to be addressed and is a valid complaint. These guys should be able to trust that the doctors employed to help the will do just that.
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