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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Who has been killed by a crosscheck? Who has been killed by a broken wrist? Names, dates, details, or retract.
Meanwhile – yes, you can indeed die from ‘a poke in the nuts’, though it occurs quite rarely. (Citation provided in the very post you were so dismissively and flippantly replying to.) You can also suffer permanent injuries. And you can suffer injuries that will remove you from a hockey team's active roster for an extended period. You may not have noticed, but the genitalia are surrounded by bones, muscles, tendons, and all sorts of other nifty tissues that have to be in working order if you plan on doing any skating. Attacking someone in the region of the groin, believe it or not, is a pretty effective way of giving him a groin injury. Perhaps you've heard of groin injuries. Or perhaps you'd rather go on trying to laugh this off.
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FFS. Are you seriously suggesting Prust put Marchand's life in danger? My god you're reaching here.
Pokes in the nuts are classless, and I'll repeat, NOT GOING TO KILL ANYBODY. Seriously. They're not putting anyone's life in danger.
A crosscheck or broken wrist have a far, far, far greater likelihood of ending sometimes career than a fricken nut shot.
Classless? Yup. Inexcusable? Yup. Juvenile? Yup.
Dangerous? Come on now.
Show me a hockey player that missed time from a poke in the nuts from a hockey stick and I'll show you a tonne more who missed time from a broken wrist or crosscheck. Marchand just said he's done it many times and will do it again and had no problem with it.
Honestly here, are you being serious with the groin injury thing here? Death? A serious groin injury?
And you know that I have a pretty good grasp of the human body right?
Ask anyone familiar with medicine which have greater potential for serious injury:
-poke in the nuts
-punch in the face
-slash on the arm
-crosscheck
-push near the boards
-trip
I promise you that poke in the nuts won't be high on that list