At 11/6/23 01:20 AM, Ronald-McDonald-LoL wrote:
At 11/5/23 01:56 AM, DioShiba wrote:
I’m not sure how many people on here have been thinking about Adam Johnson’s death but I do think that even with all the player safety updates with the neck guards a lot of people don’t realize that most hockey players take on what they feel is an acceptable risk when they’re going onto the ice.
Its not surprising the injury happened, its more surprising teams are starting to take action as a result.
Some minor leagues are already taking action, but these kinds of changes always take time to trickle up to the NHL. Look at how long helmets and visors took to become standard. For what it's worth, I did see that Jake Walman on the Red Wings has started wearing a neck guard. It looked unobtrusive, like a turtle neck sweater. Maybe they'll catch on.
Maybe.
To be honest I wasn't looking at the incident too much until I found out just recently that the player on the opposing team of Adam Johnson, Matt Petgrave was arrested and could be facing a manslaughter charge for what happened. That prompted me to actually look at the video of what happened and there's no way you can tell me that Petgrave was not intending to kick Adam Johnson in that whole mess. (<- NSFW forewarning since it shows the whole footage of the incident and there is a lot of blood)
I'm saying this as someone who is studying martial arts because that didn't look like he just got checked and the legs just happened to swing up in the air like he lost control of them. It shouldn't be a surprise that the kick was fatal because it looked like the skate hit the carotid artery and that's a pretty huge vital area. The question is whether or not the neck was the intended target.
Putting aside that this next video is from Fox News, I will say that Sean Avery pointed out in an interview with them two weeks ago made a point to mention that the technology behind the skates have changed. The only reason why I'm showing this one as opposed to the other one is because it doesn't have the part where you see exactly how much blood was lost.
I did talk about it with my father and he doesn't think that it has much to do with it but if those kind of skates were in fact used then what I'm wondering whether or not that because of how thinner the titanium is compared to the stainless steel blade was able to cut the throat to the point where the artery was just completely severed. I could be over thinking it but it's kind of hard not to when you know... the image of the full footage is striking enough to be on my mind.
