Ice hockey player Johnson dies after neck cut
Ice hockey player Johnson dies after neck cut
Nottingham Panthers' Adam Johnson dies after suffering a cut to his neck from a skate in a Challenge Cup match against the Sheffield Steelers.
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i continue to be astounded that ice hockey is still played without safety measures for stuff like this, plus the fact that it's apparently pretty normal for players to start fighting..
it almost feels like people are actively there in the hope that there'll be some violence
What safety measure could they do? They’re already covered in protection everywhere you could put it, you can’t put anything on the neck because then you can’t turn it and the strangulation risk gets added. This is just a freak accident like many sports have occasionally. Football players sometimes suffer cardiac arrest when tackled, baseball players get hit in the chest and have the same, or get knocked in the head, sports all have some level of danger
you can’t put anything on the neck
Neck guards exist in hockey to prevent this injury. They’re generally mandatory in minor hockey but become optional in adult leagues.
There are neck guards, which most players don't wear. Much of the protective equipment is by choice, and leagues need to remove the choice
...they're clearly not wearing neck guards because if they did they wouldn't get their throats sliced open
And I explained in my comment why neck guards don’t really work
Maybe carbon fiber chain mail would work?
When people complain about diving in soccer, I point out that fighting in hockey is just as trashy. Y'all grown men, millionaires. Behave yourselves ffs, what's with this fighting in the middle of the game? What kind of bullshit sport allows that? The defense from fans is that the players sometimes need to let out steam, yeah so do all sports players, you let your steam out on the puck you toddlers.