Fighting in hockey shouldn't be allowed because it's dangerous for the players and hard to watch by some viewers. The fights can cause traumatic incidents that will be broadcast on live television for thousands of people to see, including children. There has been a recent injury that was broadcast on TV where a hockey player swung his foot up but caught another player's neck which caused the player to gash blood and later die from his injuries. This incident was a traumatic experience for the players that did it and for the fans watching the game. Since then, players have started wearing neck guards, but those don't completely project one's neck. Hockey fights have been a thing since the start of the National Hockey League in 1917. It is a …show more content…
This is not good for the team and the sportsmanship because this could cause a fall on a team. This is because to work as a team, you need all your players to have a good mentality when going on the ice. Conflicts will alter a teams performance due to the stress and anger being built up along with tension within the teams. Not only do fights in hockey bring in penalties, but also severe injuries as mentioned. In the article “should the NHL ban fighting in hockey”, they stated “in addition to the traditional fighting injuries – including broken faces, hands, noses and eye sockets – fighting in hockey can cause head trauma”. This quote shows how the injuries caused by the fights can be more serious than they seem. Not only can the players break bones, but they can also have life-long lasting head trauma. Last but not least, the players themselves want fighting in hockey to be banned and removed completely. As stated in the article. Most importantly, players want fighting to be eliminated. This is important because players' voices matter too. Not only do they not want conflict, but they want to stop injuries caused by fights as …show more content…
Fighting in hockey is something that'll always bring mixed emotions for fans and will be a part of the sport until action is made. Fighting is also liked by many people and the money brought in from those fans is enough to keep fighting hockey. Furthermore, fighting in hockey has both its positives as well as its negatives, banning fighting in hockey will make people happy but will also make the other side of the argument mad. There is no way to make both sides happy, which is another reason why fighting in hockey has stayed in the sport. Overall, researchers believe that fighting in hockey should be banned for player safety as well as because of all the downsides that come with a single hockey fight. Another reason why hockey should ban fights is because of the influence and examples it sets for younger generations. These kids and prospects grow up watching the sport and loving it and having the fights in the game will influence the kids to believe it is a right thing to do since it is allowed in the sport. They would also not see the dangerous aspects the fights bring to the sport since they haven't been on the fighting end. Fights have dropped in the recent years and the seasons, but this doesn't mean it has fully eliminated the problem. Fights still occur and are
To understand this phenomenon we must go back to March 13, 1955. On this date, the Montreal Canadians were playing a game in Boston against the Bruins. One of the opposing players, Hal Laycoe, high-sticked Maurice Richard, injuring him to the point of requiring eight stitches on his scalp. Richard retaliated by smashing his own stick over Laycoe's head and shoulders and slashed him with another player's stick until it splintered. Becoming annoyed with the official's interference in the fight, Richard then turned and punched him. Since hitting an official was the least honorable thing to do, Richard was expelled from the game (2000).
Hockey is the game played with the curved stick and it is found in every culture. It has been a part of the Canadian and North American culture for over a hundred years. Hockey has developed from the original six to thirty teams, and many leagues. One thing that is prominent in hockey is the hit on the opposing player when he has the puck. Checking can be defined as using physical force to either gain possession of the puck or to disrupt the opposition’s play without breaking the rules. Checking has been a part of hockey since the beginning. Recently, there has been much controversy over whether or not checking in hockey should be banned. In the year 2005 and 2006 there were many rules and regulations added to checking that were not penalized before. Checking has made the hockey game more interesting game and also has given the opportunity to players to play more with minimal stoppage. I believe that checking should not be banned because medical science has gotten the ability to heal all injuries that occur in sports, players know in advance that there is high risk in the activity, and it allows a fan to sublimate his aggressive tendency.
First, the rules that are enforced are a great way of making the game safe for the players. There are rules like, not being allowed to tackle certain ways. For example, if you tackle someone from the back by pulling them, then that is said to be an illegal tackle. It is also said that it is illegal for someone to pull on others facemask when tackling. There are many others rules that are enforced in the game. Another one is the rule that says, Head to Head is not allowed. What that basically is that you cannot tackle someone by contacting your helmet to the opposing player. This rule makes it greatly safe because it reduces the numbers of injuries that occur to the head and the neck. The head is the key part of the human body. When someone hits another player with the helmet in the head, it reduces the risks of concussion and that can result to serious and severe body failures, including being...
As long as there have been sports, there has been violence in them. Ice hockey, particularly due to its increasing popularity as a professional sport, has brought up several ethical issues regarding the act of fighting in hockey. There are strong arguments for both sides of this present problem in the world of hockey. Numerous male athletes, including children as young as nine years of age, have suffered injuries as an outcome of fighting and it should be considered if it should be part of a sport that very young people grow up with (Brust, Leonard, Pheley & Roberts, 1992).On the other hand, fights create excitement and the sport of hockey might grow in terms of popularity, making the problem of fighting in hockey complex and difficult to resolve (“Towards An Explanation Of Hockey Violence: A Reference Other Approach”). Even though hockey is known to be a very aggressive and fast-paced sport, the unsportsman-like action of fighting in hockey cannot longer be tolerated.
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
Sports show how athletic a person is or how well they at doing a certain thing. If you're good at running then you could do track. But some sports may require a lot of skill, such as hockey. Hockey is a sport that you play on the ice with ice skates.You play 82 games plus playoffs, and multiple games per week To play hockey you need to know the basics, know the rules, and how difficult it can be.
People can brake a bone walking down the street, hockey is not any different. In youth
“The NHL (national hockey league) is not in the business of comforting people, they’re in the business of entertainment, and if fighting represents a way to differentiate themselves from an entertainment stand point, then fighting isn’t going anywhere” In the 2014-15 season 1,230 games were played, and out of those games 391 fights were in action. 29.91% of games had fights, 45 games had more than one fight. Taking fighting out of the game of hockey is too big of a risk. I think the fans will be disappointed and the entertainment level will go way down. In my paper I’m going to write about why fighting in hockey should stay and why people think it should also.
Millions of people are registered throughout North America for participation in Canada’s national sport and pastime, ice hockey. Most young hockey players have the dream of making it to the National Hockey League (NHL). Because of this incentive to keep striving towards their ultimate goal in their hockey career, they idolize the players in the NHL. Therefore, youth players may obtain certain habits from the elite, whether those habits are good or bad. Some cases are of bad influences, such as young players obtaining the dirty playing habits of the professionals. The primary action that influences the youthful population is body checking. With the thought of losing a game, it is no wonder why players have the urge to play rough and potentially hurt the opposing team in order to be victorious. For that reason, hockey is a strong collision sport that requires great skill and motivation. Although body checking is believed to be a useful tool in the winning of hockey games, it can be the cause that leads to injury among players. Because of the rougher play, lasting brain injuries are becoming a worry and too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of the head injury. According to Michael Cusimano July 22, 2003 the article entitled “Body Checking and Concussions” states, “With the rising incidence of traumatic brain injury in hockey, too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of such injuries, some of which are not fully realized until the brain completes its maturation.” For this reason, new equipment and regulations need to be devised for use in the near future.
There are no shootouts in the playoffs. Instead the play a five on five twenty minute period. The first goal wins. If the game is tied after the first overtime it continues to a second overtime. It will keep continuing until a goal is scored.
Men also had greater magnitudes of contact compared to their female counterparts. Unfortunately most injuries in ice hockey are from blunt force or direct contact. Concussions are the most common injury in men’s and women’s collegiate hockey. Interestingly enough is that women’s hockey showed a higher rate of concussions than men’s hockey. The study pointed out various options for head-impact mechanisms in ice hockey. The playing area is solid ice and the boards surrounding the area consist of rigid boards. Pucks, when shot, can go over the speed of 80mph. Players can possibly exceed speeds of 30mph. Lastly, because ice hockey is a full contact sport, players are purposefully trying to collide with one another. All of these issues are reasonable mechanisms of head-injuries. This article also references another article which classifies concussion mechanisms in ice hockey into seven categories. These seven categories are: contact with another player, contact with the ice, contact with the boards or glass, contact with a stick, contact with the puck, contact with the goal, and no apparent contact. In this article's study about half of recorded
When someone thinks of the sport of ice hockey, one of the first things they think of is the fact that fighting is a common occurrence in it. It is almost a guarantee that if you ask someone who is not an avid fan of the sport what their favorite element is, they will say something about the fights. A commonly heard and repeated quote is “I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” However, over the past few years the question of whether or not this component should still be allowed in the game has been a cause for argument and controversy. There are suggested pros and cons for what impact banning fighting from the sport of hockey might have, but for now nothing has been done to change the rules and regulations. The question to look at is, how has fighting in hockey evolved throughout history to get us where we are today, and should it remain in the game because of its history? Or should it be banned because of its history?
While it could be debated if Bettman 's theory is correct, there is no denying that the exposure the NHL has gotten, sending and risking their best players to the past five olympics has no transcended into bringing in new fans or higher television viewer ratings.
Hockey and football both the national sports of Canada and the United States are both extremely popular among many different cultures and the revenue these sports create for the leagues, cities and players is absolutely incredible. Us, as fans see the great moments within sports we see the big goals and game winning touchdowns but in reality there is a very dark side to these activities that is not talked about in the media. That dark side is concussions, concussions are a constant threat across the world of sports. Football and hockey are two sports with a level of play that causes an increase in concussions. Medical experts and leagues are doing the best they can to understand this growing issue but it is one of those things that is harder than a rock to understand and deal with.
Did you know that football is more dangerous than hockey? It is, according to the article, "Ranking Sports from Least to Most Dangerous: Includes NFL, NBA, NHL and Soccer”. My topic is that hockey isn’t a dangerous sport because sports other than hockey are more dangerous like football. In football there are there are about 248,642 or more injuries per year. Hockey isn’t a dangerous sport.