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Women's college lacrosse is effectively a different game, as different as baseball is from softball.
Trying to play attack with no pocket is a fool's errand. I honestly don't know how they manage to play.
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Not only that, but the NHL BANS full face protection unless you're recovering from an injury. (Ex-all star Dany Heatley spent most of his career wearing a comically big half-visor after suffering a serious eye injury, I wonder if he would've opted for a full visor if given the choice.) Some players already dislike the currently mandated half-visors (visors can distort vision, or fog up, etc.) and do weird shenanigans…
The “fighting culture” in the NHL (perhaps more in the AhL and college leagues?) can’t die soon enough. It’s already better than it used to be in the 80s and 90s but there is some way to go. A good first step would be actual match penalties for proper fights. It has worked elsewhere.
About 6 months ago I caught a full-swing of a stick to the right side of my mouth/jaw. Cracked my front right tooth in half and broke the next two right-most teeth at the gum-line, and cracked one of my lower teeth off at the top 1/4. Neither top teeth broken at the gum could be saved/or built up so they pulled them. I also had one of my lower teeth, left of center knocked out (yes left of center, I think the top por…
Goalies didn't use to wear masks. Terry Sawchuck's face: https://images.app.goo.gl/noYBCaJAYkVWKLeG9
I always thought that the dentists would have a lot of work, but has someone asked to the massagists? lol
I was going to correct you, but apparently "massagist" is a standard term; I'd only ever heard masseur(m.)/masseuse(f.). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/massagist
Last I checked, college and professional women's leagues mandated face protection. Why don't men's?
There's a flipside in another sport. In Men's Lacrosse at the college level they wear helmets... in Women's Lacrosse helmets are not allowed, they wear ridiculous eye-cages instead. Their argument is that they have less contact allowed and don't need them. I think the real thing is trying to look better and/or culture like hockey. Women's college Lacrosse apparently is #2 for concussions after Men's Football. Men's L…
Sure, they aren't allowed to stick or body check like mens lacrosse, but it's really beside the point if you ask me. The point is you are hurtling a heavy rubber object through the air at high velocity. Same as hockey, of you don't have face protection and catch a full strength shot in the face/ head, you're going to get fucked up.
I never played hockey, but lacrosse is just hockey on grass. I'm sure its fun as hell. But there is no way in hell I could ever be talked into playing without a full facemask. I don't care reduced vision or not.
NHL players are straight up savages... and god bless them for it. They put on a hell of a show.
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All a dentist would do would be to wipe off any large debris (as long as noxious chemicals aren't involved, you don't really even want to wash it) and then stick it back in the socket. Maybe pack some cotton rolls around it to keep it in one spot for the first 12 hours or so. Doing this on-scene ASAP is strictly better than waiting until you get to a dentist.
Would it still take root if it was placed in backwards? If it was someone else's tooth? a particularly well shaped rock?
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The “fighting culture” in the NHL (perhaps more in the AhL and college leagues?) can’t die soon enough. It’s already better than it used to be in the 80s and 90s but there is some way to go. A good first step would be actual match penalties for proper fights. It has worked elsewhere.
Care to back that up with an argument or should we all just accept that your preferred culture is the "correct" one?
Or just search YouTube for:
"The Code" AND "NHL"
I love hockey, and I used to play sled hockey (a disabled sport--I cannot safely skate on my feet). I really only use my sled to skate for fun now. But, I won't be able to skate for awhile due to an injury.
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Because visors suck? They fog up and if they get wet you have to clean them.
Visits are basically mandated everywhere now (just the NHL will take 10 more years while everyone else has already made them mandatory) If you are required to wear a visor anyway it feels like the version with a few bars covering the teeth/jaw can’t fog up that much more than just the visor alone?