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the easy one, right?
It's just a lazy story.
"Fights make concussions."
The game makes concussions.
I think Sidney Crosby has had more...
concussions than I have
and I fight...
10 to 20 times a year.
So, I mean...
he's had more concussions than me.
We have a list of, uh...
About 40 NHLers for example.
Who have had to retire
because of concussions.
On that list,
the minority are enforcers.
So I don't think we can say yet...
Whether the enforcer is
particularly vulnerable
But certainly, they are vulnerable.
It's not limited to hockey.
We see obviously in football
we have with that.
And there's no fighting
in that element of the game.
But it's much harder to
look at a game where
the violence is sort of
spread throughout
and find fault with that
than it is to sort of look at hockey,
which is a classic scapegoat here,
because we're actually
saying, "It's the fight"...
when in reality... it's the contact.
It's the element of the sport.
The reason logic can't be used
is because it's money.
It's big, big business.
Otherwise the NFL
would have to stop playing.
The... tremendous strides
that they've been able to
produce better equipment
has caused a lot of this.
Some of the equipment
has really gone overboard.
For example, the elbow pads
and the shoulder pads.
You can go to f***in' war
in those things.
You can launch yourself at full speed
and hit somebody in the head with 'em.
Shoulder pads have become
"knockout pads."
That's ridiculous.
Shoulder pads are meant
to protect the wearer,
not to knock out the opponent.
Yeah, sure, it's great
you're not getting hurt
y'know, from your neck down
but, y'know, the one thing
that you really can't protect...
is your head.
Go into the corner at...
y'know, 30 miles an hour
and aren't worried about
bracing themselves,
they just kinda throw
themselves cannonball-style
into somebody.
So it's this, uh.. kind of
counterintuitive argument
that the equipment has
actually gotten so good
that it's dangerous for players.
There's not the same amount
"Why don't we change equipment?"
If they did look at it properly,
they would have already
got rid of the shoulder pads.
Because if you wore
the shoulder pads that
Chris Chelios or... myself,
Brendan Shanahan wore,
you'd never throw a body check again.
Because you're -
It hurts!
There's also that need
to get the player out
and playing again.
And that kind of tendency
to sort of push the player
to be ready.
And no hockey
player is ever gonna tell you
that they're not ready
because they want to be out there,
they want to be performing again.
That is where the most damage comes.
Is where you get one concussion...
And maybe not even
know that it's a concussion,
you just "get your bell rung"
but then, soon after,
and before you're recovered,
you get that second one.
Unless you do take the time
to allow recovery...
If you allow that vulnerable
brain to be hit again
It can cause catastrophic results.
For example, Sidney Crosby.
He was allowed to continue playing
after his first concussion
and then, when the
second one came along,
a couple of days later,
he was then out for a year.
In fact some people
thought he might never get back
but he did ultimately come back.
He was smart enough to stay away
until he was fully recovered
but that took a year in his case.
I'm not happy to be watchin' or
to be dealin' with this, but
I've got a pretty good idea
of things now
and know this is, not where I was before
so, that's, that's an encouraging part.
We can't see the physical,
and sort of psychological
aspects of a concussion
so it makes it sort of seem like
the person is just sort of wimping out
and isn't sort of, "tough
enough" to deal with the sport.
Whereas actually, we need to be
able to understand the injury
and the length of time
it takes to recover.
And I think they're doing that now.
These, these assessments now
for a player who is groggy,
who, who has taken a severe, um... hit.
Before, y' just... smelling salts
and you're back out there again.
Certainly
the responsibility of the leagues
and the unions and the players
to... make these games
as safe as possible
but at the end of the day that's...
Exactly why they are... what they are.
They're contact and collision sports
where people have
the possibility of getting hurt.
We have discussions about
how we could eliminate
all concussions in hockey.
Impossible.
We are going to have
the risk of concussion.
We'll never get rid of all of them
but we have to minimize the risk.
One of the ways to save the game
is to get rid of the enforcers.
Every single rule change
comes with unintended consequences
and... that is a major,
major effect on the game.
If you... take out fighting,
you could be opening the game up for...
Those guys that run each other,
the guys that y'know, throw
their shoulders first into chins
and, uh, y'know, are willing
to take that 2, 5, 10 game ban
to knock out, y'know, the best
player on the other team.
One thing that I've always,
y'know, wondered.
to a doctor,
and said, "Here, re-write this
so you'll be happy,"
what would the game look like?
I'm willin' to bet that
there was less concussions
in the '80s and '90s
Now, certainly we know
there was less documented.
Because we didn't run at guys
the way they do.
We didn't...
We didn't run at Sidney Crosby
and Steven Stamkos.
took a dramatic turn in the fighting
that was taking place
when they, when they put
in the instigator rule.
Normally, if something happened
one of your teammates
would take care of business
right there on the spot.
What a chance! And another shot!
And Tarasenko is drilled
back of the goal by Clifford.
...and here we go.
Usually they got five minutes
for fighting... either way.
No matter how many punches you threw
before th'other guy threw a punch.
It was usually a wash.
With the instigator rule,
if the ref deemed that you
threw the first punch illegally,
or you went in there
and you shouldn't have,
he would give you 'two for instigating,'
a 10 minute misconduct.
Which puts you down for 17 but
your team down for an extra 2.
That's the difference between
winning and losing games
It was applied to the wrong person.
By that I mean,
If one of the opposition
runs one of my teammates
like Bob Clarke
into the boards
and I...
Go over there... to try
and straighten him out,
I get the instigator.
Personally...
Wouldn't ya think the guy
that just ran Bob Clarke,
tried to run'im through the boards,
is the instigator?
players, y'know, into the boards
n'give 'em concussions, whatever!
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