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hockey has more concussions today than the clutch and grab days of the past. this is a 2 fold reason: #1 players are moving faster now - expected #2 clutch and
by autokad 9y ago
hockey has more concussions today than the clutch and grab days of the past. this is a 2 fold reason:
#1 players are moving faster now - expected
#2 clutch and grab actually penalized larger players, as it took more energy to get moving again (hockey is an endurance sport). now player size is inflating.
I think the football solution is to force players smaller again. One way to accomplish this is to weight pun salary caps by body weight. The sport can keep its old aspects.
- dsacco 9y agoCan you flesh out your weightclass idea of salary brackets there? I'm curious to understand how you think it would work.
- soperj 9y agoHockey players are getting smaller, not bigger. You would have never seen guys like Martin St.Louis, Conacher, Gaudreau, Tyler Johnson, make it in the late 90s. That a guy like Kailer Yamamoto gets drafted in the first round shows that things have changed for smaller players.