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Originally Posted by FanIn80
I wonder about this. Like is it really culture-based or is it that hockey players are just tougher in general?
Like they grow up on ice wearing razor sharp blades on their feet, chasing an extremely hard object around that (over time) starts flying around at greater and greater velocities. Then there's that whole thing of two people colliding together at much higher speeds than a linebacker can run... or perhaps even worse, getting slammed into boards repeatedly every game.
For sure, there's a bit of heroism in any athlete playing through something when the going gets tough... but when the basketball world is astonished by Steve Nash finishing a game with a broken nose and you compare that to hockey players playing on broken feet, dislocated shoulders, cracked ribs, broken sternums, ruptured spleens, etc etc....
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It's culture based IMO.
People make fun of those other sports constantly. People are also shamed at times if you don't play through injuries.
Some of it sure is these guys are just tougher maybe and have high pain tolerance. And I think for some type of injuries that is fine.
But at some point these teams need to protect these guys from themselves when you're getting into the things that guys like Tanev, Tkachuk, Monahan etc have played through before.