We talked with another former NHLer who suffered a gruesome neck injury to contextualize the issue and what’s at stake.
Adam Johnson, a Minnesota native and former Pittsburgh Penguins center, fell to the ice. He had taken another skater’s blade to his neck during a game in England’s Elite Ice Hockey League on Saturday, a horrific incident in a sport played essentially with knives on participants’ feet.“Absolutely. I’m human,” McCleary, who years ago suffered a traumatic, on-ice throat injury, said over the phone Tuesday. “I’ve never seen the video, and I don’t want to see the video .
Nowadays, McCleary is a father of three, watching two daughters who play in Canadian youth programs and a son, Ryan, who received a professional tryout with the Rangers this summer and is now in the WHL. McCleary wishes more players would wear a neck protector, but he understands why they don’t. They can be uncomfortable. Judging by the number of incidents over the decades, they are needed only on occasion. Players look for every advantage they can get, and a neck guard might slow them down a tick.“You could have Kevlar from basically wrist to high neck to ankles, and everybody should absolutely have ,” McCleary said. “But getting everybody to wear it consistently, that would be an issue.
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