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Originally Posted by SutterBrother
 Played beer league last night. Older guy on the other team, not super great, probably never played growing up wearing a half visor. Feels relevant since this isn't an ex-pro who never played any other way etc.
Takes an errant puck to the nose. Goes down, it's run time we're down a goal. Burns half the remaining time getting off the ice, going back to the bench.
Sucks he got hurt, glad he was ok for the handshake line, but put on a f-ing cage man! I pay money for my icetime, and you're a straight MORON for not wearing one in crappy beer league. An inch lower and you're in for a grand of dental reconstruction.
Could equally argue they should stop the clock with injury, but the league rules are what they are.  |
I never used a visor until I was like 37 and had to. But I'm a colonial old school jerk. In my 20's I got a well placed shot off the beak that caused a lot of blood. Wasnt a hard shot, so I never went down...straight to the bench. We had 7 skaters...one of the refs took me to the dressing room, helped me, got the bleeding to stop and used some stick tape to cover it off. Missed 8 minutes of the game in the second period and finished it out. Can't imagine anyone letting a guy with a bloody face and jersey come back in the game today. It was a broken nose, needed to be set, and had some medical adhesive to close up the cut. Hardest part of going to work the day after was 5 hours of sleep after getting out of the ER.
Last year we had a guy take a clapper in the mouth in a playoff game. Did a lot of damage. Week before he was talking about maybe going to a cage because he'd had some close calls. That was enough to make me stop playing.