Another "neck protection" incident?

[Blackbeard]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/11-year-old-intensive-care-hockey-practice-1.7060294

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

While truly heartbreaking fortunately these types of sports accidents are extremely rare but given how rare how far do you go with changes for safety? Should neck guards be mandatory? Remember when a 16 year old girl at a Blue Jackets game died after a puck struck her forehead making her head snap back violently causing an arterial tear at the base of her skull, a truly unprecedented injury but afterwards end zone netting was mandated in all NHL and college arenas. Some years ago a young boy in a Little League game was struck in the chest by a line drive stopping his heart killing him. After that parents were buying heart guard chest protectors for their kid but that seems to have passed and no baseball leagues in my area ever mandated them. I live in Ohio where if you are a minor on a motorcycle you have to wear a helmet, adults do not and I feel it should be the same in hockey. A youth should wear a neck guard and a adult knowing the risks can choose for themselves. Just my two cents.
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[Timothy A]

It's such a simple and low cost and unobtrusive device that it should be mandatory. It doesn't negatively affect the game or how player feels while they're playing the game.

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

I have a question. I know neck guards are designed primarily to protect against slashing from skate blades but what would they do against an impact injury like the boy who dies from a puck hitting his neck?

 

[nobody72924]

Last night New Jersey Devils at Blue Jackets, a NJ player cleared a puck on a penalty kill. The puck hit a CBJ player in the his throat and the CBJ player went down hard. They worked on him on the ice and took him off the ice to locker room. Hopefully the player is ok.

 

[Hockeybuckeye]

Last night New Jersey Devils at Blue Jackets, a NJ player cleared a puck on a penalty kill. The puck hit a CBJ player in the his throat and the CBJ player went down hard. They worked on him on the ice and took him off the ice to locker room. Hopefully the player is ok.

I just don't think neck protectors do anything against impacts. Look how solid and rigid hockey skates are and you can still feel a hard shot through them and neck protectors aren't constructed that way.

 

[Lindsay]

I just don't think neck protectors do anything against impacts. Look how solid and rigid hockey skates are and you can still feel a hard shot through them and neck protectors aren't constructed that way.

Yes correct they are not constructed for shot impacts.

seeing the njd vs cbj comment below…. This is scary I don’t remember all these incidents in the past.

 

[Blackbeard]

I just don't think neck protectors do anything against impacts. Look how solid and rigid hockey skates are and you can still feel a hard shot through them and neck protectors aren't constructed that way.

Maybe this is irrelevant because maybe a slap shot taken anywhere to the neck would be enough to claim a life but my first thought was whether or not he took the shot to the back of the neck at the top of the spine just below the helmet?

You make a good point about skates. (As an aside, it made me think of when I was a kid and the skates were made just of leather...when you really had to learn how to skate...no molded boot to do most of the work for you. Back then we used to call people whose ankles weren't strong enough to allow them to be able to skate properly, leather skaters).