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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Assumed risk in attending a game
When you participate in something, you assume the risk of that activity. As I understand it, it means: what can you reasonably expect to happen if you do what you do, even if it may be fairly unlikely.
Well, the line has been drawn, and in hockey, a hockey player on the ice, who is 200 feet away from the action, is not expected to engage the opposing goalie, if that goalie has to skate all the way down the ice and starts pummeling him. And in hockey, the referee does not assume any risk in ejecting a player and having that player later come back on the ice and attacking the ref.
You’ll often hear from non-fans that they have a high tolerance level, that basically anything goes. They might argue the McSorely incident and the Bertuzzi incidents were all assumed risk. They are not, and now we have more incidents to add to the list that not all action is automatically assumed risk.
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