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Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden
I appreciate your point, but the culture of the NFL is much different.
The NFL is a meat grinder, and this opinion is held from top to bottom. Every player is considered replaceable but the quarterback. The rules, actions, and attitudes of the NFL reflect this. As such the long term health of the average NFL starter is not very important to the team or the league. They will squeeze the best out of a player until they are broken, long term health be damned.
In the NHL the long term health of most players, especially franchise players like Monahan is very important so how injuries are handled is very different.
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When you bring in interested parties to be the arbiters of care, standards are very often compromised. This is one of the major reasons why doctors do not treat relatives, for example, and bring in neutral third parties for care.