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Shea Weber is out for Wed game with a concussion sustained at Dallas. He will be evaluated on a daily basis with no timetable on his return
ESPN is worthless for hockey fans. Might as well be dubbed, "NFL/MLB/NBA Network Lite."
Forget hockey, they don't have much of a use for any sport. With almost every major sport having their own extended cable packages (NHL Center Ice, NFL Gameday, etc.) and other networks (ABC, FOX, etc.) picking up NBA/NFL/MLB games, ESPN has become useless all around.
Forget hockey, they don't have much of a use for any sport. With almost every major sport having their own extended cable packages (NHL Center Ice, NFL Gameday, etc.) and other networks (ABC, FOX, etc.) picking up NBA/NFL/MLB games, ESPN has become useless all around.
I can't disagree because I never watch ESPN except for a football game here and there, but ESPN is ABC as CSN is NBC now, etc... etc... etc... Then again, I don't watch CSN except for Hockey games. Well, Shark Byte too
sportsnetmurph: Teammates put up $300 if Kevin Bieksa could fit the words "milk hotdog" into pre-game interview. Find out if he collected on Snet at 6.
And YET AGAIN the Sharks find themselves in the midst of a 4+ day layoff. How many is that this year? This just can not be ok to do to a team, then slam us with 19 games in March?
The "concussion epidemic" is scarier to me because in my opinion they were always there .... only the worst of the worst made a player sit out. Hell, you still find some players (Armstrong the latest) who try to hide it.
I dunno, I could be wrong but I just feel like in the past they "played through it" alot more, and now they are giving it a lot more attention and they've removed the stigma of being "weak" or anything like that from the equation.
I think much of it can be attributed to advanced diagnosis and the seriousness it is being taking with now.
I think this is exactly the reasons why there seems to be so many concussions this year. And I think a lot of it can be attributed to the crosby situation
The "concussion epidemic" is scarier to me because in my opinion they were always there .... only the worst of the worst made a player sit out. Hell, you still find some players (Armstrong the latest) who try to hide it.
I dunno, I could be wrong but I just feel like in the past they "played through it" alot more, and now they are giving it a lot more attention and they've removed the stigma of being "weak" or anything like that from the equation.
I'll agree that there were almost certainly more than were known in the past, but I don't think there were as more as there are today. The players today are simply MUCH better athlete's than a lot of the players were in the past. And there is much less obstruction (still a VERY good thing in my opinion). So the players are bigger, stronger, better overall athletes, playing the game at a faster tempo, hitting more, with more speed, and with ever more players from Europe taking part, the competition among players for roster spots generally means that most players just play the game harder.
Add in things like the transition to harder pads (especially at the shoulder and elbow) about a decade ago (I think that's when it happened), and other changes to things like the boards and the glass, and I think there are probably quite a few more concussions now than there used to. Again, I DO think there were a lot more concussions in the past that weren't reported, but I also suspect that many of those were of much less severity than the ones we are seeing now (not that any concussion is acceptable).
