Join co-hosts Dylan Waugh and Ken Campbell as they discuss the Carolina Hurricanes, Vancouver Canucks, fights after clean hits and tales about 'The Big Irishman' Pat Quinn
I'm no expert, but while we're talking about fights and head injuries, something I've never felt right about here. I feel like fighting gets a lot of the blame for head injuries, and while I don't believe being punched in the face is good for your brain, I think HISTORICALLY the big issue is going full speed into the boards, such as race for icing. While punches are bad, it is a lot harder to get good leverage on ice as opposed to say, a boxing mat. However, "sprinting" into the far boards on a race for icing, a player hit the glass and their opponent hit them in the back just as the first player's head was recoiling, whipping it forward again. I feel THIS is where the majority of the head injuries occurred prior to hybrid icing, which is why i was happy to see this change.
Grain of salt: I haven't worked in neurology in nine years, and my advanced physiology courses were double that. (source: ICU nurse).
OH, and on the note of being a nurse. I know you fellas say your work doesn't matter. You're wrong. While this particular podcast and blog didn't exist a few years ago, I spent all of the height of COVID working in a COVID ICU. Your work matters. Ken writing for The Hockey News, and working on their podcast, things like that kept people like me sane in a time I never want to relive.
Misters Waugh and Campbell, thank you both for the work you do, for the mooks like us on our commutes.
I greatly enjoy Hockey Unfiltered podcasts and thanks for the honest discourse about hockey - please keep them coming. As for Wayne Gretzky not putting himself in a position to get plastered by a player's body check, in 1981 Leafs defenceman Bill McCreary, cousin of referee Bill McCreary, crushed Gretzky at crossing the blueline. After watching this monster hit, at 2:18 of the video, what was missing? Edmonton players trying to kick McCreary's ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC08sDxiEKk&t=95s
Hey Fellas!
I'm no expert, but while we're talking about fights and head injuries, something I've never felt right about here. I feel like fighting gets a lot of the blame for head injuries, and while I don't believe being punched in the face is good for your brain, I think HISTORICALLY the big issue is going full speed into the boards, such as race for icing. While punches are bad, it is a lot harder to get good leverage on ice as opposed to say, a boxing mat. However, "sprinting" into the far boards on a race for icing, a player hit the glass and their opponent hit them in the back just as the first player's head was recoiling, whipping it forward again. I feel THIS is where the majority of the head injuries occurred prior to hybrid icing, which is why i was happy to see this change.
Grain of salt: I haven't worked in neurology in nine years, and my advanced physiology courses were double that. (source: ICU nurse).
OH, and on the note of being a nurse. I know you fellas say your work doesn't matter. You're wrong. While this particular podcast and blog didn't exist a few years ago, I spent all of the height of COVID working in a COVID ICU. Your work matters. Ken writing for The Hockey News, and working on their podcast, things like that kept people like me sane in a time I never want to relive.
Misters Waugh and Campbell, thank you both for the work you do, for the mooks like us on our commutes.
Cheers Gents
Laramie Wall
I greatly enjoy Hockey Unfiltered podcasts and thanks for the honest discourse about hockey - please keep them coming. As for Wayne Gretzky not putting himself in a position to get plastered by a player's body check, in 1981 Leafs defenceman Bill McCreary, cousin of referee Bill McCreary, crushed Gretzky at crossing the blueline. After watching this monster hit, at 2:18 of the video, what was missing? Edmonton players trying to kick McCreary's ass. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC08sDxiEKk&t=95s