Too many head and neck injuries in hockey

[cbuckser]

Jesse Martin's father wrote a letter to the editor of the Edmonton Journal on this topic, with which he is too familiar.

[Cactus12]

Apparently the NHL had already scheduled some new padding to be installed on these stanchions prior to the Chara hit. This was according to Brendan Shanahan (now vp of nhl business/development) in an interview on Hockey Night Live. They also compiled a whole bunch of clips showing collisions with these partitions. They look pretty nasty, but apparently (surprisingly?) have not led to many injuries (possibly why the issue wasn't aggressively pursued).

[Jim Hyla]

Jesse Martin's father wrote a letter to the editor of the Edmonton Journal on this topic, with which he is too familiar.

Who then among us should be surprised to learn of an all-toosudden death, over time, in hockey. Could Gary Bettman live with that tragedy?

It seems he could.

But we shouldn't. There's no reason the rules can't be changed to protect the head and neck.