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by Paul on 01/05/09 at 02:55 PM ET
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from Georges Laraque at Sportsnet,
I want first to offer my condolences to Don Sanderson’s family. Don is the 21-year-old man who passed away on Friday after hitting his head on the ice in a hockey fight on Dec. 14....
So this incident brings the first subject that I wanted to talk about and that’s simply that fighting is not just the toughest job in hockey, but in all professional sports. Fighting is not easy, not easy physically nor mentally. During a fight, you pretty much fight for your life because as you know, many things can happen and on top of that, you are being watched by millions of people. And whether or not someone watches your game live, your fight will end up on YouTube forever.
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Wasn’t there a player or two a while back that took a slapshot in the chest at just the right (wrong?) time and it caused his heart to stop?
Maybe we should ban slapshots?
No, I am not actually suggesting that. That would be ridiculous.
This is a really good piece by Laraque though. I especially like the part about the infamous ‘Code.’
Not fighting a guy at the end of his shift...punching a guy when he is down...this is the small stuff that a casual viewer won’t even notice.
Posted by Laker from ROCKSTAR on 01/05/09 at 03:50 PM ET