Accidents In Hockey

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contact. Of the injuries reported in the
1993-1994 hockey season, 12% of those were shoulder related. Injury to the
acromio-clavicular joint was the most frequent because of the bodychecking.
Every time a player steps on the ice, he is constantly being pounded into
the boards, shoulder first. The glenohumeral was often being injuried
mainly from fighting and accidental contact. Hockey manufactures are
constantly trying to improve shoulder pads so this injury will not happen.
The knee followed closely behind the shoulder being injured 11% of
the time. A knee injury is very serious in hockey because it can end a
player's career. Knee injuries usually occur in the open ice area when a
player is cutting hard and is kneed or tripped by an opposing player.
Accidentally colliding with an opposing player or one of your own teamates,
often ends in knee related injuries. The medial collateral ligament was
damaged in 80% of all reported knee injuries, followed by the ...

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Canadian players
who suffered broken necks, with three reslting in quadriplegia. In the
1992 season four players suffered broken necks, two were classed as
unavoidable because they involved players losing their balance and falling
into the boards.
Finally, league and executive members are beginning to crack down
on people who hit from behind and cause catastrophic injuries. On December
6, 1994, OHL commissioner David Branch suspended Steve McLaren for the
entire season after he ran Ottawa 67's Jure Kovacevic from behind.
Kovacevic sustained a broken vertebrae and cracked ribs when hit into the
boards. Kovacevic is still recovering from the injury even though he was
not paralyzed. ...

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