Thread: R.I.P. Wade Belak

Yes! And, if the NHL wants to get involved, instead of trying to eliminate the problem by doing away with that part of the game, maybe they could provide some sort of aftercare/readjustment to civilian life programs. Oh wait, that would cost money.

I just don't see how the NHL can do away with fighting. This is a close contact sport and tempers are going to flare where the players will throw caution to the wind. (Marty, perfect example) I don't think anything can be done abt. some of the ones who can't make the non-playing of hockey adjustment.
My God, they've made enough changes to the great game of hockey already.
They want to really do something important: Start paying closer attention to Dr's prescribing all this pain killer crap.

Is it that the fighting/big hits are causing misery to these unfortunate guys? Or is it possibly that the physical aspect of the game attracts the troubled souls, and this is a by-product of who they were pre-enforcer?

Tough questions, but I think the league would do well to try and help the 'tough guys' out in the real world.

You may just have something there. Maybe some of these guys who choose the life of an enforcer do actually have an inner problem to begin with and is why they like the fighting aspect of the game. Hmm, never thought of that but, it does make sense.

I have not, for one minute, believed there to be some connection between what these guys did on the ice to how and why they died.


Belak's death "accidental".

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Originally Posted by Bogey

I have not, for one minute, believed there to be some connection between what these guys did on the ice to how and why they died.


Belak's death "accidental".

NHL Blog: Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports Blog

Ruh Roh does this mean it was Carradine-like????Wow that's almost more tragic.

Originally Posted by jerseydevil

Ruh Roh does this mean it was Carradine-like????Wow that's almost more tragic.

That's the first thing that I thought of too. How do you hang yourself by accident unless .......well, Carradine did