Hitting makes the game more exciting and marketable. The question is how do you make it clean hitting?
That is a complete misnomer. Hockey IS in its nature, dangerous. In fact the majority of concussions come from "legal" hits. Only a small percentage come from "Illegal" ones.
yeah, the league sucks at discipline, which is why they need to ban Torres for at least year. I'm pretty sure the NHLPA will fight it, though.
The NHL doesn't want to ban Torres. They would end up banning their entire roster if they wanted to TRULY enforce illegal hits.
got a link on that data? I'd say that every player is thinking about it now for sure. In fact, if you just take two of the worst - Cooke and Torres, they had been clean all year, when previously they would have had multiple incidents every year.
Clearly Torres has not been clean all year as we are discussing this thread.
are you saying you are doing exactly the same things the same way since you were a kid?
Huh? In terms of "HOCKEY" yes these players have lots of tendencies and instincts they have been developing from when they were a kid.
there is a difference between someone who refuses to change how they play, and a person who does change with the rules. BTW, they have started taking hitting out of lower youth hockey because of the incidents of concussions.
Well like you said, clearly, Torres is not someone who refuses to change. He has made a clear attempt to change. But obviously he please the game a certain way and he can never undue that.
They actually took out hitting because they want youth players to better develop their skill (there has been a lot of concern about why North American players are not scoring as many point as russian/european players). It has nothing to do with their concern for concussions.
In tern, with no hitting in youth hockey this will help them do more dekes with their heads down so that later in their career they can get to the NHL and suffer a concussion from Raffi Torres.
