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Originally Posted by Keselke
Off topic, but
This is always the first, most idiotic chirp you see in any mens league, usually repeated several times and followed up with nothing else.
The reason I and others typically wear cages is not because "we have never had to defended our faces" its because other people cannot control their sticks, and most importantly no matter how much you try you cannot defend from freak deflections and accidental plays, many cage wearers are converts from an accidents.
If you have a career to go the next day, or value your bank account, it baffles me that non professionals play without cages. Its purely for machismo reasons and others do not follow suit purely due to the fear of being chirped and the perception of looking weak. Rather than their well being
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Now hang on a minute, are you trying to say you don't expect to get in a fight in a rec hockey game? And that you don't take seriously the chirping of guys who take rec hockey seriously enough to challenge you to a fight? Not very Canadian of you!
I was in a rec game one time and a guy (wearing a yellow helmet, which always seemed weird to me) went down to his knees during a goalmouth scramble and the puck and ended up at about waist high for a second and I chopped at it. I probably missed the puck by three feet, but only missed his eyeball by about one inch when I hit him in the face with my stick. He got a couple stitches on the eyebrow and no biggie, no (real) harm done, and no hard feelings, but he started wearing a shield after that, and so did I. Not cages though, it was the 90s!