NHL Injury Analysis: Timely Attention Can Prevent Absences

I had the pleasure of being shown an article a couple of days ago comparing hockey players and baseball players. It was pretty much the top 10 reasons why hockey players are better than everyone. Since there is no way someone could write an article comparing their athletic prowess, this article was based off the passion and drive of hockey players past and present, and their ability to return to the ice after horrific injuries and compared those to the minor injuries (like sitting out for 15 days after sneezing too hard) of the MLB. Now, I may call out a few guys now and again in our league, but I do it because of what this article is saying, NHL players aren't pansies, but when they're sitting out with questionable injuries when men before them played two weeks after having their carotid artery slit by a skate, it just makes me wonder what happened to the passion in our sport. Also, when they're sitting out they're not scoring points for my fantasy team, and isn't that what it's all a

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