I already know what's coming... "How could you leave out Laperriere's blocked shots?". I'm still trying to work on getting clearer footage of the incidents.
Never forget that Chara refused to see the trainer, he wouldn’t let the docs any where near him because they were going to tell him to sit for the game, and he couldn’t have that
@@jussikankinen9409 Lol that's another very valid point of view!!!! I think that's called passion. A hockey player shouldn't come and just punch his time card like anormal 9 to 5 job or a baseball game
I'm no fan of Detroit, but god did they have a stacked team back in the day. And you couldn't have asked for a better leader & captain than Steve Yzerman.
I was at a Flyers-Senators game maybe 8 years ago? Wayne Simmonds took a puck off the face late in the 2nd period, went to the locker room, got stitched up, and came out for the 3rd. The next night against Pittsburgh, he stepped up for a teammate and fought Deryk Engelland, even though all his stitches got ripped back out and he bled everywhere. When people ask me why Flyers fans loved the Wayne Train, that's the story I tell them.
Even as a Canucks fan who hates seeing the old replays of the Canucks losing, I can't be disappointed at us getting beat by Detroit. Yzerman earned it for the whole team.
as a huge fan of both, they shouldn’t be mentioned together, one game is rough and tough, the other is skillful and more less let’s say mind games, i absolutely love both sports and missing them more than ever rn but that comparison imo in invalid
Wait wait wait. Man loses 10 teeth at once. And STILL plays. I don't know of any other sport where someone can lose 10 teeth and they are still allowed to complete. These men are INSANELY resilient.
Have you seen the footage of Ryan Smyth (with the Oil) getting his teeth knocked out and having them sew him up in the hallway? It's pretty gnarly. I don't think he even missed a shift.
My “nastiest” hockey injury was a ball hockey wrister straight to my nose. My face exploded. And 25 years later, my nose is still crooked. That was a teenager’s wrist shot with a ball. Imagine a professional, 6’4”, 200lbs MAN pounding a frozen puck at your face. Yikes!
I’m not a hockey expert at all, I’m just wondering how come they don’t all wear those shields/masks in the first place? It just seems like they’d prevent a lot more face injuries?
They used to not wear helmets… they used to not wear visors… in the future, all NHL players will be required to wear college cages. And I’m ok with that.
Kind of makes it redicoules watching fuzzball where players fake everything so hard that they put the best hollywood actors to shame.. Hockey players sure are a different breed and i hope to god that it stays that way.
Are you actually serious? First off MMA fighters are taught, trained to take more hits into their face. Hockey players don't have that training. Hockey puck shot has much more energy then most of normal MMA punches. Trust me, i did MMA for a few years. MMA hurts, it does, no doubt about that. But getting hit by an hockey puck from a slapshot is definitely more painful.
