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Ice Guardians Page #11
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That had nothin' to do with it.
I was drinking and drugging because
I was an alcoholic and a drug addict
and I had a problem with it
When I took drugs and alcohol,
they hit me completely different
than it hit somebody else
and it had nothing to do with fighting.
When I cleaned up in Phoenix,
I went and lived in a
sober living home for 2 months.
And I decided I wanted to play again.
It's... closin' in on seven years now.
There's not a day goes by where I...
I never let myself forget where I was
and where drugs and alcohol can take me.
You have all these
contradictory thoughts...
And it... it exists in a spectrum.
It isn't ever that black and white...
media portrayals of enforcers.
You'll run the gamut
and you'll try to look for
this thread of, like...
"What is an enforcer?"
And like any other label,
it never tells the whole story.
Every single person is different.
It isn't a case of saying whether
fighting is good or fighting is bad
or whether enforcers are goons
thoughtful gentlemen.
It's such a massive issue to understand.
And what the media likes to do
is to sort of, put a spin on it
and make it this very simple thing
that - if we outlaw fighting,
then there'll be no problem
with the sport at all.
And the reality is that
there are other issues
that need to be resolved
that are perhaps bigger than enforcers
and bigger than the problem
of fighting in hockey.
You have now, more so than ever...
A real idea of how dangerous
this game can be...
and what the long-term effects are.
Is looking at concussions
differently than they used to.
Whether it's baseball
or football or soccer.
Soccer has tons and tons of concussions.
What that means is
they're finally being reported.
Being a player,
particularly an enforcer,
over those last ten years
has been um... a pretty strange ride
with all of the evidence, um,
that's coming out
about the dangers...
and then obviously how...
in dealing with sports.
And then particularly enforcing
and fighting in the NHL.
Everybody loves these combative stances
and there's always this
kind of, "butting of heads"
and these black and white issues
and there's obviously much,
much more to the story.
A concussion is a brain injury.
When I went to medical school,
it wasn't really considered
a brain injury,
it was considered
something rather trivial.
The biomechanical injury
that causes concussion
is rotational acceleration.
If my left hand is the skull,
and my right hand is the brain...
The jiggle of the brain within the skull
is what we think of as
rotational acceleration.
And it's that jiggle that
causes the brain damage.
Concussions can lead
to permanent brain degeneration.
When that happens,
we call it "C.T.E."
Which stands for...
There's where we see...
Dementia.
Significant memory decline,
Real major personality change.
If you just were a casual
observer of, y'know, "sports"
and just would pick up
on different things
that were being discussed
of concussions came from fights.
The statistics on
fighting as a cause of
concussion in hockey
show that it's one of the
smaller causes.
Probably about 5%...
The reality is that
the vast majority of concussions
come from, y'know, hits.
It's... almost creating
a situation where
you're blinded to the reality
by focussing in on such
a small percentage.
With fighting, it's something we
certainly have to address
and be cognizant of
but you're possibly doing a disservice
to the other, y'know, huge
percentage of concussions
that are happening in hockey.
It's easy to isolate
when a guy gets hurt in a fight
because, look, there's a punch,
it hit him in the head and he went down.
But if you talk to doctors -
I was talking to one a while ago
and she said,
"You hockey guys have it all backwards."
I said, "What are you talking about?"
She said, "I treat more people
that have concussions
from getting hit in the stomach
than they do getting hit in the head."
Because all that has to
happen is your body has to jar
and your brain has to hit your skull.
Let's say my knuckles are their chests
knock together and their heads,
which are my thumbs,
don't receive any direct blow at all
and yet both of them may
fall down concussed.
And that is because
of the "whiplash effect" on the brain.
You go back to 2005
when the game opened up
and it was the fly-zone NHL.
Blue line to blue line.
Guys are movin' faster, uh, than ever.
Defensemen can't hold up
forecheckers anymore.
Defensemen are getting
their faces plastered
up against the glass.
And we all say, "This is great! -
"Look how fast they're going!"
We seem to have equated fast to good.
And that's fine, if that's
your thing, that's cool.
Because it got that much faster,
the body checks turned into collisions.
They weren't guys rubbing each other,
they were billiard balls,
smashing into one another.
And I always ask people this...
If you want the game
to be this fast, right?
30-35 miles an hour.
And you want guys going this quick
and you wanna make it
relatively... "safe,"
or as safe as you can possibly make it,
ask yourself how many concussions
you're comfortable with.
The force that you're
getting slammed into the boards... is...
Is like...
It's unimaginable for
a person that doesn't play
how hard you can actually
get hit by another human.
It's weird,
I don't know the number of fights I had
but the only three concussions I had
had nothing to do with fighting.
Kids, when you're playin' hockey
it's called "heads up."
Y' you never put your head -
Ohhhh...
That's painful to watch.
This is a game that's not gettin' slower
It goes faster and faster.
I had, probably 200-plus fights,
never with a concussion symptom ever.
I went in, in for a battle
in the corner,
and me n' another guy hit head on.
My head snapped back.
It was the first time I ever
had a concussion symptom.
It was from an innocent hit.
One of my last blows
I took, was an elbow.
It wasn't a huge bodycheck
It was just an elbow that
and tweaked my TMJ and cracked my jaw
and now, there's a
concussion right there.
I remember talkin' to Brad May once.
I said, "Brad, what's the, what's
the hardest you've ever been hit?"
I was expecting something like,
Oh, I got in, y'know so-and-so
fight with this guy -
whether it was in junior or the,
or the NHL.
But he said, "The hardest I ever got hit
was when I mistakenly turned
into Mats Sundin's shoulder,
and Mats wasn't trying to hit me
but I just turned
and my jaw hit his shoulder."
And he was out.
He can't even remember
getting to the hospital.
He said, "I've been
in hundreds of fights,
...nothing hit me harder
than just bumping into
Mats Sundin's shoulder."
But - hockey fight's
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