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Originally posted by Ace_O_Spades
would an eye shield have protected him at all in this case? i didnt see the shot... but maybe someone can answer
i only mention because of the growing occurance of eye related injuries, and the growing number of players using eye shields
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A visor wouldn't of protected Yzerman from injury, and it more than likely wouldn't of made the injury less severe. The shot was coming up at his face from ice level and it more than likely would of gone under the visor and still caused the injury. This is my opinion.
Of course there is the chance it would of hit the visor and not caused any injury, so you really can't say if it would of protected him.
Making it mandatory to wear visors for new players isn't the answer to stopping players from getting eye injuries, this was a freak accident, these visors are annoying as hell, they make everything harder to see, and being hit by a guy with a visor on sucks, those things are sharp, they fog up, I don't know when I had to wear a visor in junior I couldn't wait to get the thing off, this was the way the majority of players felt, and probably still do. Just my 2 cents.