I guess then that hockey can be summarized wih facts and numbers.
Someone tell coaches to decide teams based on stats too while you're at
it.
 
This is ridiculous, we've been talking about how simple facts and
studies cannot describe the full situation and this is what's brought up
again.
 
I want to hear players and coaches and the people who play the game to
discuss this.
 
Vicki Price wrote:
>
> This comes from an article in the American Journal of Sports Medicine,
> July-August 1997 issue.
>
> This is a summary for incidence of injury in practices and games at different
> levels.
>  Level                Age             Practice           Game
>
> squirt                9-10             1.2               00.0
> peewee                11-12            2.2               00.0
> bantam                13-14            2.5               10.9
> high school           15-19            0.2               34.4
> junior A              17-19            3.9               96.1
> intercollegiate       18-21            2.3               84.3
> swedish elite         19-33            1.4               74.1
>
> "The incidence in injury can be attributed to the increase in size and speed
> as players mature and to the rules and equipment used at different levels of
> participation (e.g. halfshield facial protection can be worn by players over
> 18 in Junior A but not in college hockey players). Recent studies examined
> the effect of mandatory use of face masks on facial lacerations and head and
> neck injuries in ice hockey and found that the full face mask reduced facial
> lacerations compared with previous studies and did not increase head and neck
> injuries. Although there are no published comparative studies on facial
> protection to date (1997)
> that used a concurrent control group, LaPrade et al strongly recommended full
> facial protection to guard against chin lacerations and dental injuries."
>
> 74.1% of high school injuries occur from:
> Collisions 33.3%
> collision into the boards 39.6%
> collision on the ice 11.1%
>
> P.S. I hope the columns are straight.
>
> Vicki Price
> Concussion Free Zone
> at violentcontact.net
>
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