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Originally Posted by Scornfire
That's certainly a generous take
He was clearly not playing at a level that most fans would consider contributory to team success. And I'd really love to hear a doctor outright, in public, state that playing professional hockey on a broken/fractured fibula of any severity poses little/no risk of making the injury worse, there's hundreds of potential impact events in a game that could make it worse (Blocked shots, Slashes, Hits, the simple act of stopping or sharply changing direction), it's absurd.
Ya, the players always want to play, hockey culture has taught them from a young age that it's manly and heroic to do so, why are teams still allowing them? Imo, we'll be looking back on this kind of crap in 20 years much the way we do now about fighting and CTE
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We have dozens of stories from players in the 60's, 70's and 80's and the effects of CTE, consistent fights, head hits etc. I would imagine there would be a similar history for players having negative longterm effects on their health as a result of playing through injury. Otherwise I doubt in 20 years we'll all of a sudden see a surge in negative health effects, causing us to look back on this 'crap' like CTE and related.