The NHL is have a huge problem with players going down with concussion and having major players be taken out of action for long stretches of time just looking at players that are out right now including Sidney Crosby who looks like he may be nowhere near were he was when he left along with Chris Pronger is out for the rest of the season and his career maybe finished. Then there is Jeff Skinner who was rookie of the year last season and one of the biggest surprise about the Ottawa Senators is Milan Michalek and they are out indefinitely with concussion and finally there is Kris Letang actually had a concussion during a game and came back into the game and scored a game winning goal and then was sidelined indefinitely now and then the most recent incident is Colby Armstrong who was able to hide concussion like symptoms and the Leafs found out at the last minute that he had concussion like symptoms and was held out of the game on Monday against the LA Kings.
So the list is growing everyday including Claude Giroux who left the Flyers lineup as the leading point getter in the NHL and then came back and scored four points in last night game against the Stars so the league needs to get their players better protection with more padding in the helmet like the padding that is now inside James Reimer who the Leafs did not want to tell the rest of the league about because they felt that players would take a run at him just like Tootoo did to Ryan Miller. Also they need a specialist in a both above ice level to just watch for players that look like they are not all there and had their bell rung and then make sure that they are taken right away to the quiet room for a concussion test just the NFL is going to start tonight with a specialist in a press box looking for players that need to be checked out.
The NHL need to put newer guidelines for helmets and get a third party to oversee the concussion situation in hope to drop the number of players that go down with a concussion
Tom Mehegan
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