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Media Brought Attention To The Head Shots Issue
by Paul on 03/10/10 at 12:00 PM ET
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from William Houston of Truth & Rumours,
My sense of this is that neither the general managers, certainly not the NHL and most certainly not vice-president Colin Campbell, the guy who suspends players, wanted anything to do with this.
Some NHL players are beginning to speak out now, but for months they’ve parroted the league’s line: We don’t want to take the physicality out of the game (Ottawa’s Jason Spezza this week). Or, you have to be aware of who’s on the ice. Or, well, it was a tough hit, but it was a good hockey play, too.
No, what was needed to bring a degree of sanity to the NHL’s thought process was the media, or at least some in the media. Stu Hackel, who blogs for The New York Times, has been writing about head hits for a long time. Damien Cox of The Toronto Star has as well. TSN’s Bob McKenzie has done some good work on it.
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To say that there is no sense of “sanity” on the part of the NHL regarding head shots is a bit much. I also might add that to refer to Jason Spezza’s comment as parrotting the NHL line is out of line. There is disagreement on what measures to take for good reason…a rash decision just MIGHT take the physicality out of the game to a degree that most fans would not like. It’s easy to all agree that hits to the head are dangerous.What is difficult is to separate the unintentional (6’5” player going to make a clean hit on 5’10” player cruising thru the neutral zone with his head down vs predatory hit from behind on a player who has gotten rid of the puck) In my opinion there has to be responsibility on the part of the player being hit as well as the player doing the hitting. This all has to be incorporated into rules that can be understood by the players and enforced by the referees. I’d bet that if you put 30 hockey writers in a room they would have just as hard a time coming to agreement on how best to solve this problem as do 30 GMs.
Posted by Imlach from SyrNY on 03/10/10 at 01:12 PM ET