NHL mandating helmets in warmups

[ucanthanzalthetruth]

Same thing as when they mandated visors, it'll be grandfathered in, any players who played their 1st game in the 2019-20 season and later has to wear their helmet. Am I old man yelling at cloud for not liking this? Always fun when you get to a game early and watch.

 

[I Hate Blake Coleman]

I am indifferent.

 

[syz]

I'mma be honest I thought they already did something after Taylor Hall nearly chopped his head off but maybe that was just a team thing or something.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I don’t mind the rule change, but grandfathering this is absurd. Just tell them to wear helmets, it’s not that hard.

 

[LT]

I don’t mind the rule change, but grandfathering this is absurd. Just tell them to wear helmets, it’s not that hard.

But then how long before the players have to wear something like this???

 

[Megustaelhockey]

Good.

 

[Chips]

I don’t understand why players resist stuff like this. Why even grandfather it in, is it that bad to warm up with helmets?

 

[BeastoftheEast85]

What BS, back in my day players got head injuries all the time from not wearing helmets and all it resulted in was lifelong health problems…

 

[Bizz]

yeah because you know, all those concussions that are happening during the warmups.

 

[TheTotalPackage]

Don't know why there'd be any resistance to this. While slipping and hitting your head in warm-up is remote, you could collide with a teammate. But moreso, the fact there are multiple flying pucks in all different directions and some ricocheting off the crossbar and out, I'd want to protect myself from getting hit with an errant puck.

 

[SomeDude]

yeah because you know, all those concussions that are happening during the warmups.

Guys get hit in the head with pucks quite often in warmups. You only ever hear about the ones who weren't wearing their helmet.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Whatever.

The real important one they need to do is mandating Kevlar-wrist sleeves so that we dont get anymore cut wrists like Evander Kane last week. Man, it was gruesome.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Flames got to take the Matt Duchene blame on this one

 

[JoVel]

yeah because you know, all those concussions that are happening during the warmups.

Just because there are bigger health concerns doesn't mean you shouldn't care about the lesser ones. Players get hit in the head with pucks all the time during warmups.

 

[Gee Wally]

Much ado about nothing.

I date back to no helmet, no masks, era.

As kids get accustomed to these things it just moves on with them to implement as they age up


Big nothing.

 

[Elvs]

yeah because you know, all those concussions that are happening during the warmups.

Yeah this was the last straw for me too. I'm never watching hockey again.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Those fan photos won't looks as nice with a bucket on though.

 

[ShootIt]

What BS, back in my day players got head injuries all the time from not wearing helmets and all it resulted in was lifelong health problems…

I KNOW RIGHT. WHEN MEN WERE MEN AND PLAYERS SKATED UPHILL BOTH WAYS TOO.
GOBBLESS HOSS.

 

[Rebels57]

Probably for the best. Teams make significant investments into these guys and not having them available because they took a puck to the face rounding the net in warm-ups is just stupid. I once took an accidental blow to the head in warm-ups and have worn my helmet ever since.

Also, why do they have to grand-father this in? Just make everyone comply starting next season. Weird.

 

[Suntouchable13]

This has 0 consequence for most people. I just turn on the game when it starts, couldn't care less about warmups or pregame shows.

 

[ijuka]

I'm not a fan of making players exempt to rules.

If it's a rule, it's a rule for everyone, period.

 

[ES]

I watched the warm-ups when Avs and CBJ were playing in Finland. There was just one player without helmet, J.T. Compher.

 

[Leafs87]

They just had some pretty hefty league battles around head injuries. This seems pretty logical tbh. As someone above mentioned, I wouldn’t have made anyone exempt from this though

 

[BardownMagic]

We HaVe To PrOtEcT tHe PlAyErS!!!! Reeee!!!

Let’s just put a full cage on their face too! Wouldn’t want a puck hitting the exposed part!!!

No fun league strikes again

 

[njdevils1982]

I'm not a fan of making players exempt to rules.

If it's a rule, it's a rule for everyone, period.

in stunning news today the nhl has expanded the trapezoid rule to include all players on the ice. any player who plays the puck behind the goal line in the corners shall receive a 2 minute penalty