In the 1996 season the Red wings lost to rival Colorado Avalanche in the Western Quarters. This was the start when Claude Lemieux hit Kris Draper from behind in the head causing facial injuries. In 1997 the Wings traded 2 top blue liners and a 1st round pick for Detroit legend Brendan Shanahan. On March 26, 1997 Darren McCarty got revenge on Claude Lemieux in a full team brawl. The Wings went on to win the cup in 1997 defeating the Philadelphia Flyers. Yzerman won his first cup as a captain and Mike Vernon won the Conn Smythe. Six days later Konstantinov was involved in a car crash which saw the end of his career. After a devastating off-season the wings bounced back and went to the cup finals again beating Phoenix, St.Louis, and Dallas. The
The Edmonton Oilers were one of the 4 new teams that entered the NHL during the 1979/1980 expansion team. Mark Messier and Wayne Gretzky were on the team at this time. Although none of the players that came from the 4 expansion teams could claim the calder trophy because they played in the WHA for the first 3 games. The oilers made the playoffs that year but got eliminated very early
Clint Malarchuk was the goalie for the Buffalo Sabres when his life changed forever. On March 22, 1989 during the first period of a game between the Buffalo Sabres and the St, Louis Blues, the puck was sent across the face of the goal by a St. Louis Blues player awaiting the arrival of Blues teammate Steve Tuttle’s stick. However, Uwe Krupp
Yzermans NHL career started off hot with him being chosen 4th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 1983 draft. He came to the red wings as a last hope to get there franchise turned around and get
In sports health is the most important aspect of any teams success!! For the Panthers it's been a hurdle we have dealt with for the last couple of years with Cam Newton's car wreck and a revolving door at running back because of nagging leg injuries. Training camp has just got underway and the team has taken a few body blows to their depth the biggest being defensive tackle Star Lotulelei suffered a stress reaction in his surgically repaired foot Monday and will be reevaluated in a few weeks a tough loss, but luckily it happened so early in camp so he has a chance to get healthy and help this team win. The team also lost offensive lineman Jonathan Martin and cornerback Chris Houston to retirement because of injury.
With a Coup-Countrecoup injury, damage occurs to two sides of the brain. Assuming that Tessie’s head hit the wind shield the initial impact (coup) may have caused damage to the frontal lobe, with a second impact (contrecoup) to the opposite side of the brain the occipital lobe or cerebellum. With the brain having a semisolid form, the initial impact would causes the brain to slam into the skull, and then rebound and hit the opposite side of the skull. Research shows that often times the temporal lobe and the occipital are involved in the contrecoup injury (Taylor, Ludwigsen, & Ford, 2014). Lost consciousness and a glacoscaw score of 3 means the injury is severe. A closed injury to the brain results in swelling and effect CPP, decreasing the
HL, the Canadiens played two teams from Western Canada for the Stanley Cup. They defeated the Vancouver Maroons of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA) in two games of a best-of-three series and then faced the Calgary Tigers of the Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL).[22] In the first game against Calgary, Morenz scored a hat trick as the Canadiens won by a score of 6–1. He scored another goal in the second game, as Montreal defeated the Tigers 3–0 to win their second Stanley Cup championship and Morenz 's first with the team.[22]
Lord Stanley’s Cup, in the 2008-09 Season. Crosby was then the youngest captain to ever win
The movie Varsity Blues is riddled with sports related injuries. The audience is shown the dangers of playing while injured, as well as the consequences of the immense pressure put on student athletes. In almost all cases of injury in the movie, the treatment of these injuries is carried out entirely wrong. While watching the movie, the audience sees injuries ranging from torn ligaments and muscle strains to a broken nose, a concussion, and dehydration.
Claude Lemiuex who played for many teams throughout his 21 year career in the NHL was known as one of the biggest pests that has been in the league. Pests in the NHL are players that attempt to antagonize opposing players with physical play and by chirping. He is best known for the infamous hit on Kris Draper where he hit him from behind, forcing Drapers face into the boards. Draper suffered a broken jaw, shattered cheek, and orbital bone which needed surgery that involved his jaw being wired shut and a lot of stitches. This hit lead to the rivalry of the Detroit Red Wings and the Colorado Avalanche. Throughout the next 5 years there were 2 or 3 line brawls between the two teams that even included the goalies fighting. Darren McCarty got his revenge on Lemieux in the first brawl since the Draper incident and blindsided him after a whistle in the game. That game had 18 major fighting penalties that totaled up to 144 penalty minutes combined for both teams. If the NHL didn’t have fighting who knows what else he would have done in games to opposing players but by having fighting in the game he knew that he would have pay for his actions so he did not play how he usually did against the Red Wings. Lemieux only received a 2 game suspension and $1000 dollar fine for the hit so having someone knock him around a little bit was a more suitable punishment. If fighting wasn’t allowed he never would have faced any consequences for that hit because in todays game he would have been suspended for maybe 20 games or
Most believe fighting is the leading cause to injuries in the NHL; however that is not the case. A new study claims that fighting isn’t as dangerous as some may think, since it’s difficult to get good traction for good hard punch. Dr. David Milzman an associate professor of emergency medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine states “"They get a lot more injuries from being checked into the boards or from being hit from behind. I've watched enough hockey to tell you if you taking fighting out of the game, there would be a lot more violence and probably more injuries since players would be unable to blow off steam.
Despite the long term health outcomes, the popularity of fighting in hockey still continues to this day. Hockey is considered a collision sport, as known as contact sports, which is when professional athletes collide with each other or alternative objects such as the boards. Due to hockey being a collision sport, many injuries are sustained through colliding and fighting, especially in the head. Head trauma in hockey is the leading cause of injury in hockey. Head trauma is caused by fighting and direct hits to the head. Evidence done by McKee and colleagues shows that multiple and repeated hits to the head does indeed affect brain from it’s overall function. Furthermore, records show that enforcers in the professional league reveals that they fight a lot
Injuries impact the school life, profession, and the approach to society of a player. It slows down the natural ability of one to obtain and accomplish their aspirations in life, such as academics achievements or relationship goals (Dr. Echlin, 2014). Physicality and toughness are important factors in sports, especially in hockey. In a sport that is nearing a century old, who dare prohibit the originality of it? But with prolific past injuries on players caused by malicious hits, such as Todd Bertuzzi’s infamous check on Steve Moore in ’04 or superstar Sidney Crosby’s year-long concussion in ’10-11, speculation has started to gather regarding the complete exertion of violence in the NHL. With over 50% of players getting injured each year and
The AFL (Australian Football League) is the highest-level professional competition in the sport of Australian Rules Football. The league consists of 18 teams. The AFL season consists of a pre-season competition which consists of 3 rounds, followed by a 23 round regular season. The top eight teams then play off in a four round finals series, finishing in the AFL Grand Final. AFL is one of Australia’s favourite sports to both participate in and watch. Research conducted in 2000, showed that there were roughly 443,000 registered players in Australian, ranking it the third highest sport (Australian Government, 2008). For the 2014 grand final game between the Sydney Swan and Hawthorn there were approximately 2,813,000 people watching
In the U.S there are thirty million or more children/teens that participate in sports. Out of the 30 million children/teens that participate in sports, 3.5 million of those children/teens get injured each year.
Injuries play a big role in an athlete's career and his or her overall health, although minor injuries are often nothing to worry about they can lead to something serious especially if the injury is repeatedly being aggravated. scrapes, cuts, bruises, and broken bones are all things to worry about. When a player is injured he or she is losing play time and money and why risk this when there is small but giant steps that can be taken to prevent injuries. But brain injuries are something much more serious even if the player says not to worry because something worse than losing playtime is losing your life. Albert C. hergenroeder has written an article on preventing sports injuries, he says that there are 3 million sports injuries among kids around