2007-11-22 05:50:49 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
Several deaf or partially deaf players have played in the NHL
Former Winnipeg Jet defenceman James Kyte was deaf.
2007-11-22 06:47:01 · answer #1 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know, there are no Deaf players in the NHL.
And Deaf people do not participate in the Paralympics (unless they have another disability). There is a lot of pride in the Deaf community, and they do not see Deafness as a disability or handicap. There are, however, the Deaflympics. They get Deaf people from all over the world to compete against each other. They do have an ice hockey team at the Deaflympics. But I don't believe there are any Deaf people in the NHL.
As far as whether we should have two teams for the Deaf in the NHL, I don't see why that's necessary. Deaf people are allowed to join the league, provided they have the talent to benefit the team. But with trades and everything else, the players would not remain on these two teams anyway, so adding two Deaf teams would not make much sense.
2007-11-22 06:23:03 · answer #2 · answered by Go Rangers! 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
As stated above, there have only been a few deaf players in the NHL. Trying to fill one team with only deaf players of NHL calibre would be hard to do. While deaf players in an all deaf league could field quite a number of competative teams, they would be at a huge disadvantage to hearing teams simply because of the on ice communications between players during the course of a game. I'm sure other skills would be equal, though.
2007-11-22 14:34:57 · answer #3 · answered by cme 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Don't really think there are any totally deaf players in the NHL. Some may have hearing losses. But There is a Team USA for hearing impaired/deaf players. They have a Olympics just for them usually right after the normal Olympics. It is a true Olympics put on by the same governing body that hosts the regular Olympics. They also have a sled hockey team for players that are amputees or have no ability to move their legs. Go to http://www.usahockey.com/. They have whole articles on the us teams here as well as any info you would like. EDIT : the name of the games is the Para-Olympics.
EDIT #2 Greg. As someone with a hearing loss that plays ice hockey. Don't talk down to me. I am going by the USA hockey web site. I am a proud player registered with USA hockey. They state that the hearing impared / deaf players do compete in the para games. They also have other competions as well.
2007-11-22 06:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Kimmy (Will not back down) 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Steve Downie is deaf in his right ear
2007-11-22 07:00:09 · answer #5 · answered by squay692000 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hope this wasnt an attempt to be funny. Because your spelling and grammer, makes you look even more stupid than your question. I think we should have a seperate yahoo answer areas, one for the normal people, and another for illiterates, who cant for a legible question!!!!
2007-11-23 08:04:10 · answer #6 · answered by Puck me, puck u 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jim Kyte and Steve Downie are the only two I know of.
2007-11-22 09:28:57 · answer #7 · answered by jeffwar03 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have no idea and thats what the special olympics are for. Handicap players
2007-11-22 05:58:50 · answer #8 · answered by Mateo 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, but some of the referees are blind.
2007-11-22 06:23:16 · answer #9 · answered by Bill W 【ツ】 6 · 5⤊ 1⤋