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Originally Posted by Fire
Lawyers looking for someone to sue won't care. It causes harm to others and therefore apparently needs to be remove from the game. The NHL needs to to enforce full cage masks as well. The insurers will demand it if we see many more pucks to face incidents.
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If the three major safety concerns are fighting, hitting and pucks to the face wouldn't it make sense to eliminate fighting first? Here's my logic:
- There were 508 fights in the regular season last year. Let's say 10 resulted in concussions (very conservative) then we would have a serious incident frequency of 2%.
- There were 49,200 hits in the regular season (assuming 20 per game per team) and lets say each team lost 10 players to concussion during the season there would be 300 concussions resulting in a serious incident frequency of 0.6%
- There were 73,800 shots last season (assuming 30 per game per team) and if each player got hit in the face once that's 600 pucks to the face or a serious incident frequency of 0.8%
So, exaggerations of removing hitting from hockey and forcing players to wear cages aside would you not agree that in the name of player safety fighting should be the first to go? After all it has the highest injury frequency out of all other "plays" in hockey. Plays in quotes because a fight is not a hockey play.