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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Ask Michael Frolik about body contact causing head injuries. Or pretty much any big hit as it relates to whiplash effect.
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I can't ask Frolik this question, but neither have you, so what is the point of even bringing it up? It's pretty futile.
I can't speak for all of us in the "extreme anti fighting" crowd, but I would hazard to guess that no one is unconcerned about head injuries beyond those sustained by fighting. Yes, it's a problem, and yes, I continue to hope for better measures to reduce them. However, there is already a lot of compelling evidence which shows that if there were no fights in hockey, there would be a lot fewer incidences of repetitive sub-concussive injuries. We can't make the game perfectly safe. But we can make it a lot safer.
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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
I stand by my argument. The extreme anti-fighting people are using this argument disingenuously to paint themselves as virtuous saviours hockey of when all they are actually doing is railing against an aspect of the game they simply don't like.
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And here you are being just as disingenuous by insisting that those of us who want to see fighting eliminated from hockey are manipulating sympathies for no good reason apart from our own queasiness. Well done.
Until just very recently, I had no problem with fighting in hockey. I do now, and it is not because I "simply don't like it." I am opposed to fighting in hockey—along with other blood sports—for a range of complex reasons that go well beyond simple disdain.