Brits React to NHL Biggest Hits Of All Time
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The audience would not sue, sitting through the glass shattering would be a badge of honour for a true fan, and extreme bragging rights.
They can't sue. It's in the TOS they agreed to when they bought the tickets.
I would want some tickets to an upcoming game.
Read the fine print on your ticket sometime lol. You can’t sue.
@@Kwright304 You’re right, you have to assume some risk. That being said, I would love to be sitting front row when it happens, thanks to RUclips, your image would last forever!!
If you go to a hockey game and buy tickets for any of the first 3 rows you should automatically be fully aware of what could happen at any time lol
Soccer players will start flopping around on the ground after getting accidentally touched. A hockey player will break his leg, and ask to get put back in the game.
I actually really enjoy soccer, but the fake dives are a blight on the sport. It's pathetic.
The soccer player might start flopping if they were ALMOST touched!
Soccer is pathetic!🫷Hockey is badass.... it's played with Men, real men🤘🏴☠️
lol yeah great example is the Gregory Campbell one where he breaks his leg and stays on for the extended shift on the penalty kill, even blocking more shots.
@@pacmon5285I was a huge soccer fan before getting into hockey (long story short, my favorite player left my favorite club and I lost interest in watching anymore so hockey became the alternative) but diving is in both sports... you just see it happen more often in soccer, unfortunately
I’m from Minnesota I’ve been playing all my life, Hockey is a sport for people who love controlled violence, greatest sport ever
The glass is tempered, meaning it will not hurt you. It is made to shatter in small pieces. No one will sue them. The fans know that ice hockey is brutal & they love it. I've been to the ice arena in Nashville. I enjoyed it so much. You need to attend a game, it is amazing.
Broken glass is just free souvenirs for hockey fans, shame it almost never happens anymore with new tech.
Anyone whose played or is familiar with hockey knows the glass is nothing compared to if those skates come over!
Correct. Also known as "Safety Glass". When it breaks, it breaks into small "squares" of glass (as opposed to very sharp shards of glass), significantly reducing the chance of injury. It would be like a bucket of small stones. You sometimes still get the odd scrape or cut, but it's usually pretty minimal.
It's also on the terms and conditions of the ticket.... They're not responsible for pucks or debris or hockey players flying into the crowd accidentally
@@DashRiprock513 yes. Many events have that disclaimer on them.
The hit that makes them flip is called a hip check. As long as you hit them with your hip or butt its legal.
Just to add to this, you also can't target the knees with this hit. But above the knees is legal
@@leahd4611 Hitting at the knees is where its deemed to be a "clipping" penalty.
In hockey culture (Canadian) acting hurt is not tolerated. If a guy stays down you know he's really hurt.
Exactly.
I can only speak as a Canadian. One of the things kids learn early is, if you are hurt on the ice, you get up and get back in the play or to the bench if at all possible. Lying on the ice is frowned upon. Fact is, hockey players are gladiators. My son broke his humorous and still stayed on the ice till he could get off. He was 8. He tried another shift before realizing he had no strength in his arm. Hockey players are a different breed.
Unless he's Claude Lemieux, or MARIO Lemieux, or Matthew Barnaby, or Sean Avery, or Darcy Tucker, or, well...
Unless u r the Florida panthers. They go down like soccer players.
The glass very strong. But it’s safety glass. Nothing happens to the fans.
@@CN-uc6pyA broken humourous is nothing to laugh at...
A hockey player will literally pick his teeth up of the ice and then play his next shift . They are a different breed . Cheers .
NHL hockey is no joke.🇺🇸🇨🇦
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 FJT FJB
correction HOCKEY is no joke, never played in the NHL and have had 6 surgeries on my knees to keep me walking, Lost over 10 teeth, and have had countless stickers all for the love of the game.
Minor league hockey can get absolutely mental.
@@dl2one
Give us a break. No one cares about your political opinions.
@@dl2oneFDT and all of his deplorable followers that got their heads up in his colon licking it clean.
That is tempered glass, and it breaks into tiny pieces. It's made that way, so it's much safer than large pieces. It's the same as the side windows on a car. You can throw rocks at tempered glass, and it generally won't break, so it's pretty impact resistant
It wasn't always which is a horrifying thought lol.
Canadian here. As long as someone has the puck, you can hit them as hard as you want while only taking 2-3 strides. More than that is charging. You also cannot jump and leave your feet making a hit. That is also a penalty.
To put it in perspective; the average hit in hockey is %17-%20 harder than the average NFL hit. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🤘
Is there anything to back that up? Played both.
@@Puddlef1sh Physics easily explains this. Only a 2 NFL runners crossed the 22MPH speeds in 2022 while a bunch of NHL players reached over 24 MPH with a ton averaging 22-23 MPH. You could say that the NFL has heavier guys but those guys are not running at 20+ MPH. Heavy guys hit a lower speeds so its not as hard.
@Puddlef1sh there have been studies. I think a program called Science of Sports or something like that has looked at it as well.
@joshg72826 I can believe it. However that doesn't account the pads and helmets in football. Growing up, using your helmet as a weapon was encouraged in football.
@@Puddlef1sh I don't think we were talking necessarily about head trauma/CTE damage. Yes Football is probably worse for CTE as they hit their heads more often. Hockey this is discouraged and draws multi game suspensions. Its body to body hits.
I grew up playing small town Canadian hockey. Nothing beats the feeling of laying someone out with a clean hit when you look down at them laying down you feel 100 ft tall.
this made me laugh lol
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A hockey game without a couple good lay downs is considered a boring affair.
There’s an old saying. Football is a contact sport, but hockey is a collision sport! Also, no stepping out of bounds to avoid a hit in hockey! Loved the reaction!
American football 🏈 not British football or as Canadians and U.S call it soccer ⚽️
Hockey players are a different breed 😂❤
There is a player in this video that was highlighted four times for dishing out some devastating hits. He’s a Swedish player named Niklas Kronwall. Kronwall is retired from hockey now but he developed a well-deserved reputation in the National Hockey League for his bone-crushing hits that when a player was leveled by him, NHL fans would say that player was “Kronwalled.”
One thing about the sport of hockey is that by the time of the NHL playoffs all the players are hurting. Many players play with broken bones.
Tell that to the Vegas Knights.. lmao.
They will not play with broken bones. Not in todays game. In the 60's and 70's maybe.
@@NovaSupernova Oh honey...
@@NovaSupernovago read some articles from teams after they finish the playoffs. There is always news about a player playing with something broken and will need surgery in the off season
@@davidwaxter66 Either that's someone who doesn't know hockey or a troll. My guess is the latter. Oh well.
So the rule is that the primary point of impact from a check has to be between the shoulders and the hip - You are not allowed to hit someone from behind or jump into the hit.
(The defending player also has some responsibility to protect himself, such as not holding a low posture or turning their backs against the play, when they are otherwise eligible to be checked - Which is whenever they have the puck or the moments after they’ve had the puck)
So these ”flips” from bellow are called hip checks or sometimes submarine checks - which are legal, as long as the primary point of impact are on the hips.
I would just add that the way things are called now vs. how they were called in the past is very different. Hits that would result in suspensions today got nothing back then. I don't think they even got penalties on the ice. Think of some of Scott Stevens' hits on Lindros or Paul Karya.
Some of thenlow hits in this video would probably be called now.
3:30 the glass is safety glass. As scary as it looks, no one was probably cut at all.
Also, it would be very hard to sue unless it was a pretty significant injury. There's a disclaimer printed on tickets that typically holds up in court.
All NHL arena's started transitioning away from seamless tempered glass back in 2011. They all have Plexiglass now, which doesn't shatter.
18:00 Dustin Byfuglien was a freak of nature. His nick-name was Big Buff. He shows up 5 times on this video. He started out as a forward, and switched to defence. About 6'5 and over 265 pounds - that's 19 stones in your lingo. In the offseason close to 300lbs, and he's played at 280lbs. Only 39, he just recently packed it in - to go fishing.
Lmao😂No true hockey fan would sue for the broken glass😂
Yep .........true hockey fans would pick up the shards of broken glass put them in a ziplock bag . bring em home to show and brag for years to come to their friend about what happened
......LOL
One thing I can say about the impacts. I always didn't feel quite INTO a hockey game until I got a good hit or two on me. It really brings your focus onto what's happening and locks you into the game. Getting bodied is definitely different for different people and some of my teammates did everything they could to avoid checks but I loved it.
I worked at an NHL arena for 5 years and pulled the glass for concerts. It's very heavy duty tempered acrylic. Its made to shatter into small pieces like automotive glass so it doesn't slice someone in half like if a window in your home broke. Very expensive and heavy stuff. Takes 4-6 people to set the pieces.
Played hockey for many years, and the 2 best feelings/reactions are scoring a goal, and taking out someone with a good, hard, CLEAN body check. You get going, your team gets going, and the crowd loves it. There's always going to be the 'dirty' players...who habitually go for the head, or other forms of dirty hits. The NHL makes excuses by saying 'they play on the edge', but they shouldn't be out there. They don't enhance the game.
"Thats when you know that guy isnt getting up for a while" and he gets right up.
At least 40 years of the hardest hits. When you hit with your hip, it is a legal hit. In the past couple years contact to the head is a 5 minute penalty and a board reviews, with large fines and suspensions.
If a hockey player from Canada acted like a soccer player, next time he leaves the country, they would take his passport.
When your growing up and playing hockey in Canada, there are 2 sentences repeated over and over again from coaches, players and parents. 1) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP and 2) KEEP YOUR STICK ON THE ICE. Hockey is the best sport in the world and you have to be very tough to play it.
Those Stevens hits are clean. He was a master of his craft.
They are not clean in today's era.
@Timmycoo oh damn that's why they don't do that anymore eh?
@@dl2one Media coverage on CTE? I thought that was obvious lol.
@Timmycoo cte? Nope never heard of it in all my years
@@Timmycoo Agree. If the first point of contact is the head - you are going to get suspended.
You have to understand.... You are moving at like 30-35 kms an hour on skates... and an opposing force of another 25-30km speed in the opposite direction hits you body on body... It's a LOT of impact. Connor McDavid has reached speeds of 40km/h in games before. And then you meet a wall of a body going the other direction. It's why hockey is crazy for their hits. That hit onto Brad Marchand was absolutely monstrous when I first saw it in the game. Subban, (a fast skater), managed to pull off a body check by maintaining momentum and basically just hitting him with speed and it's a devastating thing to watch.
Fats, you actually don't want to sit farther up, you want to be behind the glass; the amount of times the glass breaks is very rare, but pucks (frozen discs of vulcanized rubber) flying into the stands at more than highway speeds is a common occurrence. You'd actually be safer down nearer the ice.
The best place to sit is one of the corners of the rink, high enough up to see to the whole ice.
They put netting up to prevent that ever since that teen girl who died like a decade or so ago, I think during a Carolina Hurricane game.
@@G3NK5T42 That's only behind each of the nets. Along the sides of the ice there is not netting
Hi, I'm Canadian longtime hockey player. Still playing at 69 year old. Game is mazing as it is easy on the bones and joints, sort of. HOWEVER, it is the only sport in the world that has a penalty for fighting, that doesn't call for ejection from the game!!!! Gotta love it!
Its crazy the glass shatters like that since the glass is actually plexiglass.
Not plexiglass anymore. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago. Plexiglass breaks into big sections. They don’t use plexiglass anymore because of visibility. It gets marked up and scratched too easy. It’s now tempered glass
@@sagspirit1 Other way around, although you are right about the visibility of glass vs plexi. The NHL started using the "seamless" tempered glass in the 90's or 00's if I recall correctly but, by the early 2010's they had all been removed again at the request of the NHLPA in the interest of safety.
I believe the reason was the glass has no "give" so, hits into the glass were more prone to injury than hits into the plastic plexi.
@cmac3530 today's nhl only allows 2 types of glass to be used in rinks....seamless tempered glass and acrylic glass with flexible stantions. Some rinks still use the tempered glass but most have switched to acrylic.....acrylic glass is the one that makes like a wave motion along the boards when contact is made.
@@mikeblanchard7579 Not from what I could find: "Following the boards and glass review, the NHL agreed that the six NHL arenas that have seamless tempered glass would be required to be replaced with a safer plexiglass system by the start of the 2011-12 season. " -NHLPA
And another from an SI article paraphrasing from Bettman at the Annual GM Meetings: "In the continuing pursuit of the ultimate in player safety with regard to the rink environment, a safety engineering firm will be used to evaluate all 30 arenas and determine what changes, if any, can and should be made to to enhance the safety of the environment. For the 2011-12 season, the teams that have seamless glass behind the nets, on the sides, or surrounding the entire rink will be directed to change to plexiglass."
@@mikeblanchard7579 I googled both acrylic glass and plexiglass. They're one and the same. Poly methyl methacrylate. So again, they use plexiglass in hockey rinks. Google it and admit you didn't know the difference or more over you didn't know acrylic glass and plexiglass is the same exact thing. Also it's a form of acrylic plastic, according to Google. If it becomes cloudy or scratched they can buff it out and it will look brand new. Do Your Research.
Growing up with it, you forget how it would look to someone who never has seen it before. I love how every one who reacts to one of these says some version of “that can’t be legal, right?” 🇨🇦
As someone from Boston who had friends at the game where Lucic broken the glass, our fans went ballastic fter. They love the carnage!
The old saying is, 'Keep your head on a swivel'.
Nice to see you reacting to Canada's national sport. It is sometimes surprising for many to learn that most of the players on American teams are Canadian; however, most of the baseball players in Canada are Americans. It's an interesting trade off. The best players are drafted into teams, with these two sports, regardless of country they are from.
Number of Canadian players in reducing every year, about 49 percent are Canadian, 25 percent American and 25 percent European. Best player on Canada's most popular team is an American.
@@shawnanderson6313 Your information or your source's information is incorrect. This can easily be confirmed with a proper unbiased Google search...lol
That used to be the case. Now the number of Canadian players is about 42%, with Americans and Europeans making up the other 58%. Canadians still represent the largest single nationality in the NHL but Americans are quickly catching up, and soon the players will be evenly split between Canadians, Americans, and Europeans.
Hockey is the MOST underrated sport. A live NHL game is unreal. I suggest all sports fans to go! It is the hardest to play the skill level one must have to play in the NHL is unbelievable. Then you have to be one tough SOB.
Violations with penalties around hitting are:
- Charging (2 minute minor) - you aren't allowed to skate at top speed for long distances (usually defined as more than 5 strides) before a hit. Glide the last few feet and you are good
- Interference (2 minute) - You can only hit a person who has, or recently had possession of the puck
- Hitting from behind (2 minutes) - You can't hit from behind unless unavoidable (player turns at last second).
- Boarding (2 minutes) - is an extension of hitting from behind where the player goes face first into the boards.
- Intentional contact to the head (came in in 2010 and tough since players are not all the same height) - Self explanatory - primary point of contact should not be the head
Most other stuff is legal unless you are judged as intending to injure. You can intend to hurt each other all you want, but not injure.
Hockey is a collision sport and many aspects of the game hurt. The padding is not early as thick or extensive as you may think. Also, hockey players don't like to miss shifts. You will see guys come off the ice in a lot of pain and be ready to go a minute and a half later.
I was at a game at Maple Leaf Gardens and there was a big hit in the corner and the pane of glass popped out intact and landed in the lap of a guy sitting along the boards. It pinned him in his seat. The whistle blew and the place went quiet and we could hear the guy screaming. Attendants came over and lifted the glass off him and he got up and turned to the crowd and made several elaborate bows. The screaming was a hilarious and convincing act.
Clean hits are different for each generation of the sport,Rules change. If the puck is on your stick or around your feet,you’re an open target. Keep your head up is the moral of the story Yass ✌️ Glass seats are very expensive Fats 👍
It's a difference in mentality. A soccer player will flop around like a fish at the slightest touch to try to get the referee to call a foul or give the other guy a yellow or red card. A hockey player will try to get up right away (if he isn't unconscious) to show the other guy that he can't hurt him.
Legal hits,, Chris Pronger IS A LEGEND
Can't go low below the hip..it's a penalty called clipping. You can lean your hip into another players hip or upper body without jumping
yay, more NHL stuff please. Good times.
Ice hockey fan here from Los Angeles. Go Kings Go! Welcome to Hockey my British cousins!!! I watch all sports and am a fan of all sports. However, hockey has become my #1 favorite since 2012. (When LA Kings won their first Stanley Cup) I’m happy to see anyone take an interest in hockey
The best thing is Marchand was shown to be the RAT in the last video. This tine he becomes the MAT. Baaaaaaahahahaha
I am a Canadian who has played hockey all my life. You are allowed to hit a guy low so that he cartwheels over you. This is generally known as a "hip check" and is within the rules. Note that you cannot hit a guy at the knees or below the knees either with your stick or your legs (knee). This is a penalty. Depending on the severity (tripping, slew foot, knee on knee) this can result in a two minute minor penalty (tripping), or a five minute major penalty (knee on knee), or a 10 minute major penalty (intent to injure) or even fines and suspensions for deliberate intent to injure for deliberate hits to the knee.
Hockey has penalties. Some of these hits resulted in penalty minutes. Minors are 2 minutes where the player goes to the penalty box and their teem plays those minutes with one less player. There are also Double Minors which is 4 minutes and Majors which is 5 minutes. Players can also get game misconduct and be removed from the game and they can be fined by the league.
Watch the film from the 1970s called Slap Shot.
“Change the glass to cage” agreed, this man is full of good ideas.
I played hockey in a caged rink when I was younger. The cage bends out. When you get hit there's a big ledge and the station's stick out. Super dangerous The cage has breaks in it so your jersey is a tattered mess after one game. The cage is a nightmare!
5:40 the glass is extremely strong, the problem is that 475lbs of man flying at 30 kph into it
Hahaha thank you! I love hockey but I think I loved your reactions more!
The Scott Stevens hit was legal at the time (1995) Eric Lindros had his head looking down at the puck because it started to slide off his stick when Stevens began to step up. Even today, you don't look at the puck...KEEP YOUR HEAD UP.
NFL NHL Rugby Players:Breaks Bones & Still Keeps Playing.
Soccer Players:Oh Dear I've Fallen & Can't Get Up Due To Being Touched By A Feather Of Air.
Yank = opinion is immediately worth my shit in the toilet.
The ones that their heads smash into the ice are the most devastating blows
they gotta bring back rock em sock em hits. hockey highlights with bad techno over them. glorious.
The glass back during the Lindin hit at 3:18 was tempered glass, but players were starting to get major shoulder injury's and concussions from being hit into it. The glass had no give because it had to be solidly fixed into place to avoid breaking. The NHL started the swap to Plexiglas in 2011, and the glass now can move along with an impact, reducing injury, and the glass no longer shatters into a million pieces.
When you purchase a ticket for a game there is fine printing that the league is not responsible for any mishaps as in breaking plexiglass or a puck gone rogue. All the fans there are aware of this and take the risk especially when you're sitting next to the glass. So even if you did happen to get injured you do not have any legal recourse to sue.
Just a tip--take it or leave it--over here we call it "Hockey" not ice hockey-- here that is like saying "ice figure skating" or "water Olympic Diving", or "pointy Darts"-- yes, girls here play "field hockey" and we call it that because it has not relation to real Hockey. the ice is not necessary.
The people who had all of that glass rain down on them probably went home. got all of the glass bits out of their pants, shoes and socks, put it all in a jar and will pass it down to their grand children.
Gotta be tough to be a hockey player. You can't call timeout in the middle of a play, and you can't run out of bounds.
Hitting is a big part of the game, so most of the time big hits aren't penalties.
MOST of these hits... are perfectly legal in hockey. Recently the rules changed to get away from hits where you hit the opponents head before any other impact cause those are where most of the concussions in hockey come from. HOWEVER most of these hits are just clean legal no penalty big boom hits.
Back in the early 80's, it was Gretzky's first or second season in the NHL, Edmonton vs Calgary, I watched young Gretz take a mid-ice hit from Jamie Macoun. I'd been watching hockey since the late 60's. Started my first year in minor hockey in 1970. I've never seen a bone-shaking hit as hard as that in my life. Gretzky had a few tears in his eyes as he limped off the ice but I have to hand it to him, he was back out on the ice in very short order. No coddling. He got a "welcome to the big league" bone-cruncher and he took it like a man.
For the purpose of this rule, an illegal body check is defined as when a player makes intentional physical contact with the opponent using overt hip, shoulder, forearm or torso action. This includes physically forcing the opponent off the puck and with no effort to legally play the puck.
Glass Shattering like that is VERY rare...it is fairly shatter proof and about an inch thick. Also, spectators cannot sue for the broken glass, pucks into the crowd or other such events because the ticket reads that by continuing to sit where your ticket is, you assume all risks and responsibilities and that if you feel unsafe, let staff know and they will try and move you to a more secure seating location.
I remember traveling to Yellowknife in Canada to play when I was 15, they had the chicken wire instead of glass, I’ll take the glass any day of the week
What I like most about hockey as I played it for 25 years is it's five times faster than any other team sport, fighting is legal. You get a five minute penalty and usually two minutes for roughing and the game is much more physical and violent than any other sport with the exception to lacrosse. It is by far the greatest sport in the world. Don't forget to check your ego at the door when you get on the ice.
In the Scott Stevens era, shoulder to chin was a clean hit. You can see in the slow motion replay (19:27) that his elbow is tucked and he doesn't extend his arms into the target. This was a textbook body check when it happened. However by today's standard if the principle point of contact is anywhere on the head it should be penalized. Most of his hits today would result in a major penalty and suspension (similar to a red card). So at the time they were clean, today they are not clean per the rules. Also most of the hip checks shown here where the defender sends the attacking player cartwheeling through the air are clean and a few are a little low (3:58 is borderline). At one point the commentators mention "low bridge" this is essentially targeting the legs of your opponent rather than their hip. This should be penalized. When a player who is carrying the puck sees a defender coming at them with their hip the natural reaction is to try to avoid the contact by jumping out of the way (1:00) this creates the cartwheel effect more than the hit itself. Side note, I'd rather flip over the defender than be stopped dead in my tracks like hitting a brick wall at high speed (0:20). Getting flipped will usually only bruise your ego, getting flattened in open ice will bruise (or break) your ribs.
The third clip is one of the best back checks ever demonstrated in the history of the NHL. The cherry on top is the guy who got checked is the biggest weasel in the game.
Scott Steven's hit was legal at the time. After we learned how bad concussions are long term it became not ok to target the head. It would be a penalty and possible suspension today.
Hockey players are crazy period.These are big boys making the hits.They lose teeth get stitches and continue to play.
In my province, kids can’t use body contact until they’re 14. They go through training on how to give and take hits. Rule #1, keep your head up. They also have head to toe protective equipment on under their jerseys and pants!! Crazy how hard they get hit and don’t get hurt usually!
The low hit you were questioning around 12:20 is called a hip check, the player uses their hip to hit the player instead of their sholder. It's legal in the game and has different outcomes depending on where it is. Open ice hip checks can cause a player to fly over the hitter, while hip checks on the boards normally just push the guy and cause them to lose their balence. It's hard to line up a guy like that clip because of how the hitter has to position themselves with the other player, thats why it doesn't happen all the time.
Hockey hits are part of the game. The NHL is not responsible for any injuries caused by hits, pucks going over or anything like that. There’s a disclaimer when you buy your ticket about that!
Hockey players are a different level of athlete.
1. The glass is tempered so it won't hurt someone when it breaks. 2. It doesn't happen that often. Maybe once or twice a season on the high side (out of a total of 2,729 max possible games over the course of an entire season). 3. When you buy tickets, there is a waiver of liability now. There didn't used ot be but then a fan hot hit by a puck and died so now there is the liability waiver that covers glass breakage.
The majority of these hits were at the time legal. Contact with the head is illegal, knee contact is illegal, but hips, chest and shoulder hits are legal.
Niklas Kronwall was easily one of the best all time hitters of the NHL...he hit so hard they changed the rules of what you're allowed to do as a legal hit. Announcers coined the term 'Getting Kronwalled' because hits hits were like hitting a brick wall. Best hits comp: ruclips.net/video/xTch3SEk4_4/видео.html
9:55 That was not his team lol their logos look similar. The guy hitting (Konstantinov) played for the Detroit Red Wings and the guy he hit was on the Philadelphia Flyers. You both should react to Niklas Kronwall hits
I literally went right to the comments to say this lol. Definitely not the same team. also Vladdy 💙💙💙
''The code'' was done a few years back , NHL players are not allowed anymore to take off their own helmet before a fight.
That glass breaker hit was back in 1994 during the playoffs, when the glass breaks it "cubes", its safety glass, and no you can't sue when you go to a hockey game and get hit by a puck or have the glass break on you, you accept the risk implicitly when you purchase your ticket
Plexiglass is designed to not be sharp when broken but accidents happen, it's actually more plastic than anything. When you purchase a ticket there's a disclaimer that says you purchase this ticket at your own risk.
Brawl in hockey town is a must watch
5:36 Years ago, it was metal cage. Tempered glass has been used for decades now that they don’t use chainlink fence. The glass breaking RARELY happens. It’s a unique circumstance.
There have been injuries involving skates accidentally hitting another guy's neck. Clint Malarchuk and Richard Zedik is the perfect example.
Yeah and I think last year someone died in juniors or international hockey from a skate to the neck. I know USA hockey starting this fall is mandating neck guards for all under 18 year old players.
Players are allowed to physically engage with an opponent using their strength and balance as long as their primary focus is to gain possession of the puck . In classification where body checking is allowed, the focus of the body check must be to gain possession of the puck .
You should check out the video about the injury that goalie Clint Malarchuk suffered.
Not for the squeamish, so be prepared
Richard Zednik too
When a hockey player stays down, you know they're hurt. When a soccer player stays down, 99.99% of the time, they are faking it.
Two men colliding at a combined 60 miles per hour or more? Yeah, it hurts.
RE: the broken glass: it's safety glass, designed to shatter into millions of pellets rather than into sharp shards. People rarely get cut by it.
Every HNL ticket has a disclaimer on it that states that fans are warned that they can be hit or injured by pucks, sticks, glass, etc and that they assume that risk, themselves.
It's a reason why I always sit in the upper deck (besides the better overall view of the game).
"Going low" is a hip check. So long as your hip makes contact with an opponent's hip or upper thigh, it's a legal check, even if the guy does cartwheel through the air. Hitting someone at the knees like that is right out.
To answer your question in legality, almost all of these hits were legal at the time the game was played. However there is a major rule difference. Prior to 2011, if you had the puck, it was your responsibility to keep your head up. If you didn't, you could legally be hit shoulder to head. Since 2011, the player making contact is responsible to ensure that the head is not the major point of contact.
Besides that, here's what you're not allowed to do. You can't skate into a hit, you must be gliding into it. You can't use your hands, stick or elbow to hit. You can't hit anyone from behind (this is especially dangerous, near the boards, can lead to paralysis). You can't jump into a hit. You also can't hit anyone not carrying the puck, although there's a little leniency to allow you to finish a hit you already started when the player had the puck. You can also never hit the goaltender, regardless of where they are on the ice.
Maybe now you can understand why we as Canadians cannot understand why soccer players flop around like a seagull fighting over a dead fish when they get a tap on the leg.
3:20 i was just a kid watching my captain do that. Linden wasn't even a known big hitter. That was a beautiful moment. ❤
Its funny how people outside of hockey think fighting is the dangerous thing. Then you say watch the biggest hits and they are shocked and bothered. Then you tell them ok now don't watch the injury videos cause they're a bit gross. Gross what do you mean? Jaws shattered, Eyeballs popped, necks broken, achilles tendons cut, oh and a couple slit throats, ya know gross stuff...
18:56 ended 88's career with this hit. From one of the most promising dominant players of that era.
They used to use shatterproof plexiglass along the boards, but it is much more dangerous when it breaks and large pieces start falling. The local rink that I went to as a kid in Eastern Ontario had chain link fencing instead of glass.
The current tempered glass setup is pretty good. It has some give to it and doesn't catch you like the chain link did.
the hits in the older clips would be considered a penalty in todays game, but 95% of the hits in this video are clean hits.
Hockey players are a different breed of human and the NHL calls penalties for embellishment, so you can’t pretend to be injured in hockey.
With the broken glass. Odds are they cheered, I'm not gonna lie. We love that mess lol
What y'all aren't seeing, is 95% of these dudes bounce RIGHT BACK UP, and get back in position.