As the hockey season comes to the end the leagues and club bring up businesss for the Next Season. Here is another example of what repeated head trauma does. Protect our children. No hits to the head, neck, or back. Take care of the abusive and violent players. 98% of the players are harmed by the reckless 2% of players. Think about it and improve the safety of youth ice hockey.
"Does ice hockey cause brain damage?" - Slate
Get ready for a lot of that kind of talk, especially from the outsiders who have to specify it's "ice" hockey (what, no field hockey?). For talk about the future of fighting. About hits to the head. About the deleterious and injurious effects of a game played by large men at a high velocity. And, of course, about Sidney, which is right where CBS went with it.
The New York Times reported this morning that the late Bob Probert's brain tissue exhibited "the same degenerative disease, chronic traumatic encephalopathy" that more than 20 deceased NFL players and former NHL tough guy Reggie Fleming had when his brain was posthumously examined by Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.
Their findings don't spell out anything definitive on hockey's safety ... yet. And their subject was, shall we say, a unique specimen.
From the Times on Probert, who died of heart failure at 45 last summer:
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