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Originally Posted by speede5
There's got to be a way to get rid of the body armor without making a player more susceptible to injury.
Softer pads, less armor, from the waist up. If it hurts to hit someone at full tilt people will lay up on their hits but it won't take contact out of the game. Those cheap elbows to the head as a player skates by aren't going to do near as much damage if there's no armor plate on the elbow.
Hockey without contact would suck, but seeing two guys collide at full stride doesn't need to happen.
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This one IMO.
Limit elbow and shoulder padding to be soft padding and ban the extremely hard plastic caps that are on the players shoulders and elbows today.