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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
How can that deduction be made though? The same people that are getting punched in the head are the same people that play a physical game and are dishing out and receiving multiple body checks a night.
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Through research. Based on the ongoing research to this point in time all the available evidence suggests that hockey players who suffer serious head trauma from hockey plays that effectively end their careers are not nearly as at risk as those who regularly participate in fights. By numerous counts, Marc Savard and Chris Pronger are recovering from multiple concussions suffered as a result of hockey plays, and are not exhibiting the same kinds of symptoms and self destructive behaviour that characterize the cases of Bob Probert, Derek Boogard, Steve Montador, and others.
What we know so far is still circumstantial, but it is pretty compelling. Until the day that the suicide rate among numerous former hockey players with no history of fighting begins to spike, it seems that fighting is what is presenting the highest level of danger here.