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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
I am really shocked at how much head area professional hockey helmets leave unprotected and at how little professional hockey players care about this. It is not an unthinkable possibility to get hit by a 100mph puck and suffer irreparable damage for the rest of your life. It's actually, VERY likely. Helmets can be designed more all-around with full face cages that protect faces and ears. Just really bugs me that they don't care.
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Seriously. I get from a marketing perspective that it's 'cooler' and looks better to have the players faces be visual at all times by not having players in helmet cages, but from an insurance, liability, and safety perspective, it's absolute madness that they risk their heads in a sport where dangerou objects are constantly whizzing by their heads, or actually make direct contact. (High sticking)