NHL GM meetings

[L K]

Yeah, I'm still in the training phase, but part of my job entails cleaning up the mess of the odd driver that decides not to wear a seatbelt and then goes flying through their windshield when they get in an accident.  It's not a pretty picture when they show up in the ER.

Pretty much same thing goes for the idiots who grind metal without safety glasses and show up with shrapnel in their eye.

 

[bustaheims]

Lets give a way some more freedom of choice. no visors for 100yrs, and now they must wear them?. whats next no hit hockey. sure visors help, but so would a suit of armor. I think it should be up to the player not the NHL . injurys are part of the game, god knows they get paid enough for it. soon they will tint the shields, then they will go full face, then we wont see nothing but robot looking machines out there. and i'll bet players will still be injured. cant wait to see how they will stop them injurys. oh ya no hit hockey.

Up until the 80s, players were allowed to play without a helmet. Should we give them that choice back, too? You're being unnecessarily alarmist here. They're not gong to go past visors. They're certainly not going to go with tinted visors - that's not a safety issue. They're not going to go full face mask. They're not going to take hitting out of the game, and the players out there are already practically wearing suits of armour underneath their jerseys.

 

[hockeyfan1]

My choice would be visors.  Let's just say that if Marc Staal had been wearing one, he wouldn't have gotten the puck in his eye because his eye(s) would not have been exposed so much.

Second choice would be hybrid icing.  If, as they say, it can prevent unnecessary injuries, then so be it. 

Goalie pad equipment?  A little less "oversized" would present itself as a practical solution.  Let's face it, there was a time when goaltenders were smaller in size and in equipment.

Not sure exactly how shrinking the pads, etc., will effect scoring chances, but, if anything good comes out of this for the good of the game, then so be it.