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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The NHL has faced resistance from the players on both the idea of wearing helmets, and more recently, of wearing visors. But yes, lets be disingenuous and whine about how the big bad NHL is taking advantage of a bunch of dumb, ignorant and helpless farm boys - and their agents. And their union.
You can whine about the language the NHL uses, but the fact is, the players and its union were, at minimum, equally negligent. If not more so given their history of fighting attempts at increasing player safety.
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Yeah I don't disagree with any of that, and actually starting a discussion about the lack of cages a week or so ago. But at the end of the day, the doctors cleared these guys to play and had access to all the same, if not more, information about the long term effects of such a thing. If the doctors told them that if they keep playing theyre risking long term brain injury, and the player did anyways thats a different story. But the NHLs statement isnt that they provided their athletes with proper knowledge and were ignored, its that they should have known regardless of what a team employed doctor said. Thats what my issue is.