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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
NHL committee
One thing I love about the NHL is how it doesn’t take years for the league (and denying there even is a problem) and the NHLPA to take action. And it’s fantastic that the NHL has players on the management side. Bettman deservedly takes alot of flak, but he did good here.
And Mario Lemieux proposes a penalty system against teams as a disincentive concluding:
“If a player is a repeat offender during that season, the fine to the team would double,” wrote Lemieux. “Please note that if this proposed system were in operation today, the Pittsburgh Penguins would have been fined $600,000 this season because of recent suspensions to two players. We all have to take responsibility if we are going to improve the game.’”
Gotta love Mario.
And the great Ken Dryden, likely the finest writer-athlete we have (no offense Hayhurt):
In sports, I think, the haunting question will be about head injuries. It wasn’t until 1943 in the National Football League that helmets became mandatory; in the National Hockey League, not until 36 years after that, in 1979. The first goalie mask wasn’t worn in the NHL until 1959.
And in a whole childhood and adolescence of playing goalie, I didn’t wear a mask until 1965, when I had to wear one on my college team. How could I have been so stupid?
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