Physical altercations must be removed from the National Hockey League due to them creating an added, tremendous, risk of traumatic injuries or deaths. Whether it’s gashes, broken bones or torn muscles through typical ice hockey play in the NHL, each moment of play is riddled with a high chance of receiving a traumatic injury. Fighting only raises this already steep risk of getting hurt and creates a fatal possibility along with a higher concussion chance. Though being a rare occurrence, some players have been unfortunate to suffer fatalities from the results of fights and their injuries. Although Don Sanderson, an Ontario Senior AAA player for the Whitby Dunlaps, hit his head on the ice after a fight with an opposing player which resulted
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Tragic is the immediate word that should emerge into one’s mind upon analyzing what occurred on Dec. 12, 2008. An individual suffered a fatal blow to the head upon collapsing onto the ice following a physical altercation in ice hockey. The next word that should emerge to an individual's attention is preventable. If 21-year-old Don Sanderson were unable to get into a physical altercation with another player, he would in fact still be living today. Due to the scrap held between Sanderson and Fulton, a member of the hockey community has been left dead, yet, individuals still continue to engage in this act of horrible, traumatic, injury and death causing violence. If fighting were removed from the NHL and the sport of ice hockey all together, deaths, like Sanderson’s, would and will never happen. If a death directly from a physical altercation in ice hockey wasn’t enough to change an opinion, then one resulting from the post-traumatic issues in the NHL will. Unfortunately, Sanderson isn’t alone in the deaths suffered from hockey fights. “I'd just read John Branch's stunning and terrifying three-part New York Times series on the life and death of NHL enforcer Derek …show more content…
Orpik didn’t even fight back and had absolutely no chance to do so. Orpik was extracted from the ice on a stretcher, taken to the emergency room and diagnosed with a concussion. This was one of the ugliest, recent moments in the NHL and with no surprise it included fighting. He is completely wrong in his statement of how he thinks concussions don’t result from fighting. Clearly, Thornton is unaware of what he has done to others during his time in the league. He might have not suffered a concussion; but obviously his opposers in fights have, even when defenseless. To add, Thorton only recorded 102 points in 705 games with 1,130 total penalty minutes to relate back to how players in the game just for fighting and chaos, hardly produce at all. Thornton is wrong for his statement and current players are benefiting from his presence no longer in the league. As viewed, fighting needs removal from the National Hockey League due to physical altercations adding an increased risk of traumatic injury and death in an already dangerous
Tragic is the immediate word that should emerge into one’s mind upon analyzing what occurred on Dec. 12, 2008. An individual suffered a fatal blow to the head upon collapsing onto the ice following a physical altercation in ice hockey. The next word that should emerge to an individual's attention is preventable. If 21-year-old Don Sanderson were unable to get into a physical altercation with another player, he would in fact still be living today. Due to the scrap held between Sanderson and Fulton, a member of the hockey community has been left dead, yet, individuals still continue to engage in this act of horrible, traumatic, injury and death causing violence. If fighting were removed from the NHL and the sport of ice hockey all together, deaths, like Sanderson’s, would and will never happen. If a death directly from a physical altercation in ice hockey wasn’t enough to change an opinion, then one resulting from the post-traumatic issues in the NHL will. Unfortunately, Sanderson isn’t alone in the deaths suffered from hockey fights. “I'd just read John Branch's stunning and terrifying three-part New York Times series on the life and death of NHL enforcer Derek …show more content…
Orpik didn’t even fight back and had absolutely no chance to do so. Orpik was extracted from the ice on a stretcher, taken to the emergency room and diagnosed with a concussion. This was one of the ugliest, recent moments in the NHL and with no surprise it included fighting. He is completely wrong in his statement of how he thinks concussions don’t result from fighting. Clearly, Thornton is unaware of what he has done to others during his time in the league. He might have not suffered a concussion; but obviously his opposers in fights have, even when defenseless. To add, Thorton only recorded 102 points in 705 games with 1,130 total penalty minutes to relate back to how players in the game just for fighting and chaos, hardly produce at all. Thornton is wrong for his statement and current players are benefiting from his presence no longer in the league. As viewed, fighting needs removal from the National Hockey League due to physical altercations adding an increased risk of traumatic injury and death in an already dangerous