Found November 21, 2008 on
Sports Are 80 Percent Mental:
PLAYERS:
Brandon Sutter,
Doug Weight,
Andrei Kostitsyn,
Kurt Sauer
TEAMS: Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Phoenix Coyotes
TEAMS: Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens, Phoenix Coyotes
As first seen on LiveScience.com
One painful lesson every National
Hockey League rookie learns is to keep your head up when skating
through the neutral zone. If you don't, you will not see the 4700
joules of kinetic energy skating at you with bad intentions.During
an October 25th game, Brandon Sutter, rookie center for the Carolina
Hurricanes, never saw Doug Weight, veteran center of the New York
Islanders, sizing him up for a hit that resulted in a concussion and an
overnight stay in the hospital. Hockey purists will say that it was a
"clean hit" and Weight was not penalized.Big hits have always been part of
hockey, but the price paid in injuries is on the rise. According to
data released last month at the National Academy of Neuropsychology's
Sports Concussion Symposium in New York, 759 NHL players have been
diagnosed with a concussion since 1997. For the ten seasons studied,
that works out to about 76 players per season and 31 concussions per
1,000 hockey gam...
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