and not mangle and really infect their hands? Are they pumped up on painkillers during games? This is the only sport where guys are allowed to bare knuckle fight someone. Sure, in the NBA, NFL and MLB you get the occasional fight, but punches rarely land.
2007-09-27 05:45:59 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
Adrenaline, and yes sometimes they do hurt their hands. There was plenty of fighting in hockey long before anyone was likely to be using drugs.
2007-09-27 11:53:11 · answer #1 · answered by michinoku2001 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The enforcers on each team do most of the fighting and there's an unspoken "Code" between them that when two guys fight, they both drop their gloves and remove their helmets "at the same time" so neither gets an instigator penalty. The helmet removal is so neither one will shred their knuckles when punches are thrown. This is only done when the fight is planned. Fights are planned ahead of the time between two players to uphold the "Code" and ensure that play between the two teams stays clean for the rest of the game. Often times, though, fights break out in the "heat of the moment" between players who don't normally fight. These are the guys who have little experience fighting and don't remove their helmets, and flail their arms about like madmen when throwing punches. This causes some pretty severe knuckle damage at times, but the hockey players are tough. They'll just jam their hands back in their gloves or throw some ice on them during intermission, then go back on the ice keep playing. Helmet visors are absolutely off limits to fighters around the league. If you're a fighter and you wear a visor, you'll get laughed right out of the league. If you're not a fighter, but you try to fight with one on, you'll quickly get a bad rep around the league for being a p*ssy and soon enough the agitators and enforcers from other teams will make you pay your dues like a man.
2007-09-27 06:20:53 · answer #2 · answered by t_virus_addict 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Maybe cause hockey players aren't PUSS1ES like guys from those other sports. You can't expect to play as physical as they do and not get into a fight once in a while. Most definitely aren't on drugs like steroid, otherwise baseball and football players would be fighting all the time. It's purely adrenaline and the physicality of the game.
2007-09-27 08:44:49 · answer #3 · answered by kcheck24 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
t_virus had the best possible answer for this question. The part I respect most about the fighting that takes place in hockey is that it is mostly controlled and is stopped when one person or both fall to the ice to avoid any extra injuries with no kicking etc.
2007-09-27 06:29:02 · answer #4 · answered by John C 1 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Adrenaline and a lot of ice packs afterwards. Actually, didn't a couple of Philly players get hands and wrists injuries after that game against the Sens?
2007-09-27 06:00:58 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
That's why they make the big leagues! they are usually the toughest of the tough and trading in a couple of broken knuckles and jaw bones is worth it for a chance to win Stanley
2007-09-27 06:01:43 · answer #6 · answered by GOHABSGO!! 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
players get hand injuries all the time because of fighting. but in hockey they're all crazy tough so a broken finger doesn't really drag them down.
2007-09-27 08:04:21 · answer #7 · answered by DC FURY 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1) there tougher than heck
2) they hit the skin not the actual bone....
3) some don't, you know how many fingers n bones kocur and probert broke cuz of stuff like that...
2007-09-27 06:21:29 · answer #8 · answered by McMoose--RIPYAHS 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋