Why dont more people call hockey players baby's for wearing equipement?

Question

First i wanna say i got nothing against equipment.....but im pissed off about rugby players calling football players big baby's wearing equipment when hockey players wear more thatn football players........i play both rugby and football and i dont see whats the purpose of hockey equipment when all your doing is shooting a puck and checking now and then....football and rugby are collision sports and hockey too but in football in rugby your trying to get the other guy down and kill him in the process whereas in hockey its just to shoot the puck in the net....only contact is cheking....like if its because of the rock hard ice and the blades then that makes sence

Answer 1

i would love to see a rugby player play a game of hockey without equipment and see how they feel afterwards...

Answer 2

You have obviously never played hockey! Getting hit by a puck hurts even if you have equipment on. Those guys can shoot a puck as fast as a baseball pitcher throws a ball!! Guys break bones when they stop a puck with their bodies. Goalies equipment is big and thick to prevent this. And players can loose eyes, teeth and other body parts to blades, pucks and checking. Equipment is for the safety of the players and I have no problem with a player wearing what they feel is necessary. They can't play around with their livelihoods. If they are so serioulsy injured then they may never play again. Who wants a damaged hockey player???

Answer 3

This has got to be a joke or the dumbest question since "who is buried in Grant's tomb?!" They're not just "skating around"--if you've seen 5 minutes of even the most boring game you should see that.

I think we're being screwed around with. Nothing against football or rugby, hockey is much faster as you're building speed on the ice and the puck flies faster and harder than anyone could throw a ball and it's frozen and hard to see.

Why am I getting so worked up? lol

Answer 4

Until the late 70s they practically only played in sweaters over minor padding.

Safety is the concern on the forefront, but the real reason is $$$. Owners are paying players multi-million dollars a year to win them games. Why put them at risk for serious injury? Granted before the 70s the game was slower, and not as powerful. Nowadays mere wristshots can get up to 100mph. Try having that hit you straight in the chest!

Keith Primeau of the Philadelphia Flyers hit his head on the ice with a helmet on and is still injured with post-concussion syndrome. I've had my share of hockey-related concussions, and they aren't fun. I am not sure of rugby's season, but NHLers play about 82 games, roughly one every other day with 100s of thousands of miles of travel inbetween. Getting checked into the boards for 6 months really takes a toll in the end. The pads help from completely destroying the body from wear and tear.

That's all professional hockey though. If you were to go to a pickup game at the local skating rink you'll see kids in shorts, t-shirts, and hockey gloves.

Answer 5

youér a hockey player and you don't see the use of equipment? what do you play? slowmotion hockey? coz in that case you're right. or maybe you play hockey in the safe way, you know, never really giving everything you've got so as not to fall. i'm not a bad hockeyer by now, but when somebody checks me hard enough or for some other reason, i'll fall down. and i've allready had some ugly bruises. not to mention my coach who was traingin with his own team, he's a real good hockeyer but just last night he broke his wrist ina simple fall. had he not been wearing protection he would have broken his elbow as well, so that's why.
now, if you wanna contnue playing hockey safe so that you don't need equipment, that's fine by me, but don't start thinking all hockeyers are like that. i'm very inmsulted by this beacuase in real hockey we do much more then just shoot the puck and check a few times. but as you already claim to play ice hockey and you don't understand, then you will never understand!

Answer 6

have you ever played hockey, the puck gets harder when its cold and if you are in front of a shot and it hits your shine or your face now that hurts, i rather have a 3 to 5 400lbs defencive ends tackling me then getting hit by a hockey player skating at top speed going 10 times faster then a football player runs. believe me when i tell you if have been hit hard and gotten the puck in the face from blocking a shot in Juniors and it ******* hurts.American football has nothing on NHL hockey, hockey is 10 times more physical and more rougher then American football, and hockey players are a 100 times in better shape then football players. and Rugby is more rougher then American football and if you look in Australia and in Europe the Rugby players are like 6'5 and 250lbs and can run the 100 metre dash in less then 14 secs that's fast for a big man. and like i said earlier a rather get hit by a 300 to 400lbs football player over getting hit by a Rugby player or by a hockey player, maybe someone like Scott Stevens will ring a bell or maybe just ring yours.
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ITS CAUSE THE HOCKEY HE PLAYS IS A VIDEO GAME THATS WHY, HE NEVER PLAYED HOCKEY A DAY IN HIS LIFE.

Answer 7

You ever been hit the head by a rock solid, frozen puck flying at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour? Well, then, that's why they wear equipment. Same thing in baseball. Ain't nothing in football or rugby that moves that fast and carries the potential danger that these objects do.

Answer 8

Ok. I think that hockey players have more reason to wear equipment than a football player.

1. Ice to fall on.
2. Frozen rubber flying through the air.
3. Checking into boards...other players
4. Sharp skate blades

and the list goes on.

Answer 9

Maybe you weren't there when players have gotten sliced open with the sharp blades of hockey skates. We have had a couple instances occur here in Buffalo. One was when Don Luce took a skate across the face, very blood and scary. The second was when Clint Malarchuk took it in the neck, partially severing his jugular, literally nearly bleed to death right there on the ice, but the team doc reached into the cut in his neck and held the hole closed until they got to the hospital. The ammount of blood and the spirting cause dozens and dozens to faint or puke. Plus you have a frozen rubber puck traveling a speeds that could literally kill you, not to mention the slamming into boards and the sticks, so really they have to have equipment:

Answer 10

Uh, the only contact in hockey is not checking. You can get killed by the puck if it hits you in the head. And even though it is illegal, high sticking can seriously injure you if you are not wearing gear. Our friend lost all sight in his left eye when the puck hit him because he wasn't wearing a face guard. The ice is rock hard, but figure skaters fall all the time. I have the bruises to prove it.

Answer 11

Cannot really compare football and hockey.Hockey players do not actually have very much protection on their shoulders and chest in comparison to football players , some guys like Shanahan wear these cloth shoulder cups that are barely noticable under the jersey.In football the playing surface is softer and there are no boards or steel posts to be crashed into plus the guy coming at you is not on skates and travelling very fast.