NHL Biggest Hits Of All Time | Yass & Fats Reacts 

They can't sue. It's in the TOS they agreed to when they bought the tickets.

I would want some tickets to an upcoming game.

Read the fine print on your ticket sometime lol. You can’t sue.

@@Kwright304 You’re right, you have to assume some risk. That being said, I would love to be sitting front row when it happens, thanks to RU-vid, your image would last forever!!

If you go to a hockey game and buy tickets for any of the first 3 rows you should automatically be fully aware of what could happen at any time lol

Seen one guy get stitches in his face in the hallway behind the bench so he wouldn't miss too much time. It was the playoffs, tho, so there was that.

I actually really enjoy soccer, but the fake dives are a blight on the sport. It's pathetic.

The soccer player might start flopping if they were ALMOST touched!

Soccer is pathetic!🫷Hockey is badass.... it's played with Men, real men🤘🏴‍☠️

lol yeah great example is the Gregory Campbell one where he breaks his leg and stays on for the extended shift on the penalty kill, even blocking more shots.

@@pacmon5285I was a huge soccer fan before getting into hockey (long story short, my favorite player left my favorite club and I lost interest in watching anymore so hockey became the alternative) but diving is in both sports... you just see it happen more often in soccer, unfortunately

Only sport where you can actually fight. Well, in certain point referees will end the fight. Hello from Finland. Did you like Mikko Koivu?

Agreed. I grew up in Vancouver, and watching Gino Odjick destroy players was pure awesome. I remember going to a game when Tie Domi and Jets were town, and in those days, two top tier goons was as big a deal as the superstars coming to town.

@@nervanderi loved him 👍🏻

Amen

You got that right!! From Canada and Wendel Clark was one of my all time favourite players. I played my entire life and got a puck in my mouth and cracked one tooth and the other was in its entirety and I almost swallowed it but grabbed it, looked at it and slipped it back into its spot. A couple of days later had a root canal on it but yes, hockey is the best sport. Pretending you are hurt is just not part of its culture. My one coach always said that there is only one reason for hitting in hockey and that is to make the puck carrier lose the puck - sometimes you make the puck carrier lose the puck harder than other times ;-) and after one good hit, you get way better at keeping your head up!

Exactly.

I can only speak as a Canadian. One of the things kids learn early is, if you are hurt on the ice, you get up and get back in the play or to the bench if at all possible. Lying on the ice is frowned upon. Fact is, hockey players are gladiators. My son broke his humorous and still stayed on the ice till he could get off. He was 8. He tried another shift before realizing he had no strength in his arm. Hockey players are a different breed.

Unless he's Claude Lemieux, or MARIO Lemieux, or Matthew Barnaby, or Sean Avery, or Darcy Tucker, or, well...

Unless u r the Florida panthers. They go down like soccer players. The glass very strong. But it’s safety glass. Nothing happens to the fans.

​@@CN-uc6pyA broken humourous is nothing to laugh at...

Just to add to this, you also can't target the knees with this hit. But above the knees is legal

@@leahd4611 Hitting at the knees is where its deemed to be a "clipping" penalty.

Also can't target the head (nowadays) or risk suspension or elbow the player in the act of checking and incur a penalty. (Also Canadian)

@@CanuckGod Or hit a player in the back, from behind, forcing them into the boards forwards.

Good that elbow cheks been penalysed​@@CanuckGod

Broken glass is just free souvenirs for hockey fans, shame it almost never happens anymore with new tech.

Anyone whose played or is familiar with hockey knows the glass is nothing compared to if those skates come over!

Correct. Also known as "Safety Glass". When it breaks, it breaks into small "squares" of glass (as opposed to very sharp shards of glass), significantly reducing the chance of injury. It would be like a bucket of small stones. You sometimes still get the odd scrape or cut, but it's usually pretty minimal.

It's also on the terms and conditions of the ticket.... They're not responsible for pucks or debris or hockey players flying into the crowd accidentally

@@DashRiprock513 yes. Many events have that disclaimer on them.

this made me laugh lol 🤣

Stopped playing when I aged out from contact games. Literally played the sport just to hit people.

🇨🇦 🇺🇸 FJT FJB

correction HOCKEY is no joke, never played in the NHL and have had 6 surgeries on my knees to keep me walking, Lost over 10 teeth, and have had countless stickers all for the love of the game.

Minor league hockey can get absolutely mental.

​@@dl2one Give us a break. No one cares about your political opinions.

​@@dl2oneFDT and all of his deplorable followers that got their heads up in his colon licking it clean.

It wasn't always which is a horrifying thought lol.

Yeah, but if you smash up a spark plug with a hammer, you only need a small piece of the white broken insulator to explode any tempered glass, and it only needs to be a light toss to do it

American football 🏈 not British football or as Canadians and U.S call it soccer ⚽️

Hockey players are about 80 lbs smaller than NFL players.There's no comparing- force = mass times speed.

@@jamesg7738yeah the last part was speed..they’re moving much faster and they’re not smaller than most football players besides linemen which are never moving all that fast😂Both are brutal but there is a clear winner

Is there anything to back that up? Played both.

@@Puddlef1sh Physics easily explains this. Only a 2 NFL runners crossed the 22MPH speeds in 2022 while a bunch of NHL players reached over 24 MPH with a ton averaging 22-23 MPH. You could say that the NFL has heavier guys but those guys are not running at 20+ MPH. Heavy guys hit a lower speeds so its not as hard.

​@Puddlef1sh there have been studies. I think a program called Science of Sports or something like that has looked at it as well.

@joshg72826 I can believe it. However that doesn't account the pads and helmets in football. Growing up, using your helmet as a weapon was encouraged in football.

@@Puddlef1sh I don't think we were talking necessarily about head trauma/CTE damage. Yes Football is probably worse for CTE as they hit their heads more often. Hockey this is discouraged and draws multi game suspensions. Its body to body hits.

Tell that to the Vegas Knights.. lmao.

They will not play with broken bones. Not in todays game. In the 60's and 70's maybe.

@@NovaSupernova Oh honey...

@@NovaSupernovago read some articles from teams after they finish the playoffs. There is always news about a player playing with something broken and will need surgery in the off season

@@davidwaxter66 Either that's someone who doesn't know hockey or a troll. My guess is the latter. Oh well.

Yep .........true hockey fans would pick up the shards of broken glass put them in a ziplock bag . bring em home to show and brag for years to come to their friend about what happened ......LOL

All NHL arena's started transitioning away from seamless tempered glass back in 2011. They all have Plexiglass now, which doesn't shatter.

I would just add that the way things are called now vs. how they were called in the past is very different. Hits that would result in suspensions today got nothing back then. I don't think they even got penalties on the ice. Think of some of Scott Stevens' hits on Lindros or Paul Karya.

Some of thenlow hits in this video would probably be called now.

Scott Stevens for NJ devils was in there smoking people several times also. You could make a highlight reel this long of just him, no lie! Loved watching him.

Thank you !!!! #LGRW

Also worth explaining is that penalties generally mean that your team has one less skater on the ice versus the other team, and thus the team with more players has what is called a power play for that amount of time. During these power plays, the team with more players is usually in the offensive zone for much of it, trying to score on the other team. On a minor penalty (2 minutes, or in the case of a high stick that draws blood, a 4 minute double minor which is treated as two separate 2 minute penalties for purposes of penalty serving), the player on the penalized team has to serve the penalty until either: a) the entire duration finishes out or b) the other team scores on the team being penalized, at which time the penalty is finished and the player can return to play immediately (except the double minor, if scored during the first two minutes, the remaining 2 minute penalty still applies). If the penalty is a rather egregious one - called a major penalty, usually 5 minutes in length - the team stays penalized even if the other team scores on them. Major penalties can also result in the offending player being ejected from the game (basically, a red card for you soccer/football people) in addition to the 5 minute penalty, which would then be served by someone else on their team. P.S. Usually a full on fight between two players results in both players being assessed 5 minute majors for fighting, but as a result neither team is at a disadvantage and both teams will stay with 5 players on each side afterward. There can also be coincidental minor penalties assessed to both teams at the same time which would also keep the teams at 5-on-5 [for instance, Team A trips a player on Team B but the referee deems that Team B's player was embellishing the trip], except for some roughing penalties that would result on both teams being short a player and thus 4-on-4.

Boston has the best fans

The best place to sit is one of the corners of the rink, high enough up to see to the whole ice.

They put netting up to prevent that ever since that teen girl who died like a decade or so ago, I think during a Carolina Hurricane game.

@@G3NK5T42 That's only behind each of the nets. Along the sides of the ice there is not netting

I was going to mention this also, and yeah to my knowledge the netting only covers behind the nets and into the corners. You're safest either behind the glass or at one of the 2 ends at any level. I prefer the middle, part way up. It's the easiest spot to catch ALL the action with no blind spots.

@@G3NK5T42 wasn't that Mia Khalifa?

Not plexiglass anymore. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago. Plexiglass breaks into big sections. They don’t use plexiglass anymore because of visibility. It gets marked up and scratched too easy. It’s now tempered glass

@@sagspirit1 Other way around, although you are right about the visibility of glass vs plexi. The NHL started using the "seamless" tempered glass in the 90's or 00's if I recall correctly but, by the early 2010's they had all been removed again at the request of the NHLPA in the interest of safety. I believe the reason was the glass has no "give" so, hits into the glass were more prone to injury than hits into the plastic plexi.

​@cmac3530 today's nhl only allows 2 types of glass to be used in rinks....seamless tempered glass and acrylic glass with flexible stantions. Some rinks still use the tempered glass but most have switched to acrylic.....acrylic glass is the one that makes like a wave motion along the boards when contact is made.

@@mikeblanchard7579 Not from what I could find: "Following the boards and glass review, the NHL agreed that the six NHL arenas that have seamless tempered glass would be required to be replaced with a safer plexiglass system by the start of the 2011-12 season. " -NHLPA And another from an SI article paraphrasing from Bettman at the Annual GM Meetings: "In the continuing pursuit of the ultimate in player safety with regard to the rink environment, a safety engineering firm will be used to evaluate all 30 arenas and determine what changes, if any, can and should be made to to enhance the safety of the environment. For the 2011-12 season, the teams that have seamless glass behind the nets, on the sides, or surrounding the entire rink will be directed to change to plexiglass."

@@mikeblanchard7579 I googled both acrylic glass and plexiglass. They're one and the same. Poly methyl methacrylate. So again, they use plexiglass in hockey rinks. Google it and admit you didn't know the difference or more over you didn't know acrylic glass and plexiglass is the same exact thing. Also it's a form of acrylic plastic, according to Google. If it becomes cloudy or scratched they can buff it out and it will look brand new. Do Your Research.

Yeah I was pointing at my phone screen saying, "look bro, he's right back in the play!" However they paused at a bad time to chat and didn't catch it lol

And regular season vs. Play-off games rules are not same?😂 Yeah I know I´m from Finland 😂

Yes regular season and playoff rules are te same the refs in the playoffs tho let some things that aren't real serious go to keep the game flowing better

I literally went right to the comments to say this lol. Definitely not the same team. also Vladdy 💙💙💙

Number of Canadian players in reducing every year, about 49 percent are Canadian, 25 percent American and 25 percent European. Best player on Canada's most popular team is an American.

@@shawnanderson6313 Your information or your source's information is incorrect. This can easily be confirmed with a proper unbiased Google search...lol

That used to be the case. Now the number of Canadian players is about 42%, with Americans and Europeans making up the other 58%. Canadians still represent the largest single nationality in the NHL but Americans are quickly catching up, and soon the players will be evenly split between Canadians, Americans, and Europeans.

​@@RodRuthAs of December 4, 2023, 42.6% of NHL skaters were Canadian, with 45.7% of those players from Ontario. This is down from 75% in the 1980s and slightly less than 50% today, as the NHL has expanded to include players from other countries. In January 2024, Sound of Hockey reported that the percentage of Canadian players had dropped to 41.2%, the lowest in history. There's your Google search... His numbers seem legit to me 🤷‍♂️

Lacrosse is Canada's official national sport, not hockey. It is another game that features players carrying big sticks beating the crap out of each other.

As a Canucks fan I'm a little salty that your team got their first of two Cups right after we failed in 2011 [also, neither version of my hometown Winnipeg Jets fared any better] 😡but I agree with you, hockey is an amazing sport and it's nice to see people learn about it 😄

Not for the squeamish, so be prepared

Richard Zednik too

They are not clean in today's era.

​@Timmycoo oh damn that's why they don't do that anymore eh?

@@dl2one Media coverage on CTE? I thought that was obvious lol.

@Timmycoo cte? Nope never heard of it in all my years

@@Timmycoo Agree. If the first point of contact is the head - you are going to get suspended.

Yeah and I think last year someone died in juniors or international hockey from a skate to the neck. I know USA hockey starting this fall is mandating neck guards for all under 18 year old players.

That's why they added nets for both sports to prevent the foul ball in baseball on the right/left sides, and especially behind the glass and to the corners and more with hockey.

True, the standards are a bit different in the last decade or two with the knowledge that professional leagues like the NHL (and NFL) have about concussions and as such are stricter with what they allow in terms of hits. They also have concussion spotters hired by the league to watch for those type of hits and they have the power to request a player leave the game to undergo concussion protocols. And yes, always keep your head up 😂

I played hockey in a caged rink when I was younger. The cage bends out. When you get hit there's a big ledge and the station's stick out. Super dangerous The cage has breaks in it so your jersey is a tattered mess after one game. The cage is a nightmare!