On last night’s HNIC Hotstove, former New York Islanders GM Mike Milbury made some interesting claims regarding head injuries and changes to players’ helmets.
Mike Milbury Is Still An Idiot
↵Pierre LeBrun was introducing a idea for a helmet that would make it safer for when players fought; the outer shell and visor come off leaving a smaller, protective helmet behind to protect the player’s head during the fight. When the idea for the new helmet was scoffed at, LeBrun brought up the latest string of concussions and big hits and the dangers of dying on the ice. Here is Milbury’s response:
↵“Someone dies everyday, it doesn’t matter. If you don’t want to get hurt, don’t play the game, don’t play it! Every day we talk about how to make it safer, the equipment’s better, everything’s better. Guys have been playing this game at high speeds for a long time and that’s when it’s fun; when these guys after each other and play physically, that’s when it’s fun. It’s getting to the point of nauseaum, everytime we talk about it, every week.”
↵Milbury would go on to say that the players that are victims of these brutal and dangerous hits should get part of the blame as well, and that someone needs to teach them how to “slow down, and absorb a hit.”
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