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2011-2012 NHL Thread

List of high profile NHLers with concussions is getting long these days... Crosby, Pronger, Richards, Giroux, Skinner, Staal, Letang.

But yeah, no problem here, nothing to see, move along...quick Brendan make a video.
 
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
List of high profile NHLers with concussions is getting long these days... Crosby, Pronger, Richards, Giroux, Skinner, Staal, Letang.

But yeah, no problem here, nothing to see, move along...quick Brendan make a video.
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There's probably always been a list as long or longer of NHLers with concussions but until they were high profile names it wasn't big news.  Sad but true.
 
Zee said:
WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:
List of high profile NHLers with concussions is getting long these days... Crosby, Pronger, Richards, Giroux, Skinner, Staal, Letang.

But yeah, no problem here, nothing to see, move along...quick Brendan make a video.
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There's probably always been a list as long or longer of NHLers with concussions but until they were high profile names it wasn't big news.  Sad but true.
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Pronger's concussion is a result of being smacked in the melon by a  Grabovski paddle. Even if you take out all the hitting and make 'em wear bubble wrap he still gets one.
 
Zee said:
There's probably always been a list as long or longer of NHLers with concussions but until they were high profile names it wasn't big news.  Sad but true.
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Yeah. I mean, hockey is a fast paced, physical game, and, because of that, there are going to be concussions. That's the unfortunate truth of the situation. All the league can really hope to do, without changing the fundamental nature of the game, is to minimize the number of concussions by cracking down on dangerous, high risk plays - which they've started trying to do, though, obviously, with a questionable level of success.
 
I think people forget too that their has been quite a few in recent years as well.

Eric Lindros with several, Brett Lindros, Nik Kypreos, Marc Savard, Adam Deadmarsh, Wayne and Keith Primeau, Matt Barnaby, Paul Kariya, etc, etc.
 
Erndog said:
I think people forget too that their has been quite a few in recent years as well.

Eric Lindros with several, Brett Lindros, Nik Kypreos, Marc Savard, Adam Deadmarsh, Wayne and Keith Primeau, Matt Barnaby, Paul Kariya, etc, etc.
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Not to mention the dozens and dozens that have likely gone undiagnosed over the years because of a lack of knowledge when it comes to concussions.
 
Erndog said:
I think people forget too that their has been quite a few in recent years as well.

Eric Lindros with several, Brett Lindros, Nik Kypreos, Marc Savard, Adam Deadmarsh, Wayne and Keith Primeau, Matt Barnaby, Paul Kariya, etc, etc.
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Roenick, Sami-Bot, Alyn McCauley, Jason Allison, Richter, Lafontaine, heck, even Stevens had concussions.
I don't think there have really been an appreciably larger number of concussions relative to the last 10 years, just more media attention.  Lindros was arguably the best player in the NHL when he got his first major concussion, but he never got 1/100th of the attention that Crosby was getting on Day 182 of "Concussion watch".
 
Busta Reims said:
Erndog said:
I think people forget too that their has been quite a few in recent years as well.

Eric Lindros with several, Brett Lindros, Nik Kypreos, Marc Savard, Adam Deadmarsh, Wayne and Keith Primeau, Matt Barnaby, Paul Kariya, etc, etc.
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Not to mention the dozens and dozens that have likely gone undiagnosed over the years because of a lack of knowledge when it comes to concussions.
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Exactly.  25-30 years ago they would say a player "got his bell rung" and leave it at that.  We know far more about diagnosing concussions now than ever before, I'm sure there have been many instances in the past of players simply playing through "headaches" and not worrying about it.  The media attention on all this makes it seem like it's some new phenomenon around the league.

Note, I'm not saying players should play through concussions as in the old days, I'm just saying they've most likely always been there and we only understand them better now.
 
Fans of impressive shoot out goals may want to see what Patrick Kane did tonight. Fast hands.
 
Saint Nik said:
Fans of impressive shoot out goals may want to see what Patrick Kane did tonight. Fast hands.
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It was a good one:
http://www.nhl.com/ice/recap.htm?id=2011020449
(they don't have an individual video for the SOG - it's at the end of this one obviously)
 
Potvin29 said:
Here's direct link to it on TSN.ca:  http://watch.tsn.ca/featured/clip586220#clip586220
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I dunno.  I'm not that impressed by moves that come to almost a full stop.  In the BS world of shootouts, the least BS moves of all are those that come closest what a breakaway would be like in reg/OT.  This looked like ASG stuff to me.

Not to say he doesn't have great hands.  But if I were Backstrom I wouldn't feel that bad.
 
Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate said:
Potvin29 said:
Here's direct link to it on TSN.ca:  http://watch.tsn.ca/featured/clip586220#clip586220
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I dunno.  I'm not that impressed by moves that come to almost a full stop.  In the BS world of shootouts, the least BS moves of all are those that come closest what a breakaway would be like in reg/OT.  This looked like ASG stuff to me.

Not to say he doesn't have great hands.  But if I were Backstrom I wouldn't feel that bad.
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I remember in the playoffs one year that Hossa had such a huge breakaway against the Flyers that he full on stopped in front of the goalie and deked from a standstill.

God I miss beating up on the Flyers in the playoffs.
 
Sucker Punch said:
God I miss beating up on the Flyers in the playoffs.
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link
Cechmanek's temper tantrum and apparent attempt to take himself out of Game 4 against Ottawa in the playoffs has caused a rift with the club.

Many of his teammates believe he quit on them. His agent, Petr Svoboda, says that he realizes the team has turned on his client and that Cechmanek must be traded for both sides' sake.

Flyers general manager Bob Clarke probably has begun to realize that, as well.

"The feeling for Cechmanek has changed dramatically," Clarke said last week.

Asked whether that meant a trade, Clarke hedged but added: "We have to address it. The players didn't like what he did. Neither did we."

Clarke had the same impression that most people sitting in the Corel Centre for Game 4 did when Cechmanek approached center ice and began yelling at his teammates on the bench and gesturing wildly after Ottawa took a 3-0 lead.

"He looked from where I was sitting that he wanted to be taken out, and he did it to us once before," Clarke said. "He knows he was wrong; he didn't play the next game."

That was a great moment: Cechmanek's meltdown under the pressure of playoff hockey calling out his teammates ...

couldn't find a pic quickly
 
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