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Originally Posted by pepper24
We're seeing this a lot more with young athletes. Kids play hockey year round and are one sport athletes at an early age. Your body can only do so much. Needs rest and different movements from other sports. On top of physical injuries like this you have to avoid mental burnout as well.
When I played WHL in 1990s you never saw this. We had no spring hockey and we all played different spring sports until 14 or 15 before we committed to just hockey. Even then you had most of your spring off after playoffs then didn't start training until mid summer at earliest. June and July were non-hockey months for most players. Now you have 10 year old kids going 10-11 months a year.
We'll see these injuries continuing.
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Well all that aside, guys train 10 times harder now than the 90's. Thats probably far more of a contributing factor than playing too much hockey.