[McG]

After having read the Players' Tribune articles, and now this, I wonder when the NHL and NHLPA will stop treating players as widgets or parts in a machine and treat them more as assets.

As a soccer coach at Tier 1 and Tier 2, I am very concerned about heading the ball, which would cause every bit as much damage as a punch. My children play on these teams, and I really worry about concussions affecting their lives.

I don't know how to remove the risk of head injury from the sports that we all love, without fundamentally changing the sport. Gridiron football would become flag/touch football, soccer would need to remove heading, hockey would need to remove high hits.

If you have the slightest interest in this topic, i recommend this excellent TSN article, and the two Players' Tribune articles.

Thank you to PeteMoss for the original post.