A guy on my team, who at the time was wearing a visor, was told by the doctor he was centimeters away from losing his eye due to a high stick. It took a couple close calls with sticks and pucks for me to smarten up too. There is literally nothing to be gained from not protecting your face and it baffles me that there's some sort stigma around people wearing a cage in beer league (unless you're running around trying to hurt or fight people while wearing one in which case you're an idiot for a different reason).
These "tough guys", who are not getting paid millions of dollars a year to play, must have amazing dental insurance and/or not care about their livelihood being affected by an errant stick or random puck deflection for a nothing game, seen by no one, in Bowness at midnight on a Tuesday. But I guess if you're absolutely petrified that someone, somewhere ever might think you're "not tough" it's worth it.
If you don't want to wear a cage that's your choice, it doesn't impact anyone but yourself, but it ceased to impress me a long time ago.
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