Get out of here with that. Remember when Dirk won it on a team that won 67 games and got bounced in the first round of the playoffs? Give it to the guy that had the best, most impressive individual season. You have no idea what will happen in the playoffs.

Or “dude, come with me. I’m going outside for a smoke, but I want to continue this conversation.” Heck, they’re pro football players talking to a big enough fan that he was actually watching the draft. He probably would’ve followed them outside if they had said “hey, wanna go outside and see if we can spot polaris…

This article is the perfect example of why claims of momentum are total garbage. The Celtics took control of the series? How? By winning one game big? The Wizards totally crushed the Celtics at home in both games, winning by 27 and 19. Sure sounds like they had total control of the series, huh? Except now they…

“because of the seriousness of concussions the NHL should consider every hit to the head with the same degree of concern.”

Thank you! I went back through what I wrote in response to his comments and was like “how does he think what he’s saying is a rebuttal to my comments?!?!?! What is happening?!”

You definitely want a brave dog. I’ve had both, but in the same dog. When I got him he was confident and brave AF, but then I moved into an apartment right next to a ton of construction that went on for years in a bigger city and it slowly spooked him until he would cower at the sound of fire trucks on our walks. …

I completely agree. Personally, I think it’s clear that the protocol needs to be expanded, especially given that it apparently was specifically designed to give the players no protection in a situation like this.

I’m totally with you.

Lol. My original statement was that there is nothing obviously false about a claim that the ice and the boards pose different risks. Nothing I said supported the claim that the policy was sound. I even explicitly stated that I don’t know enough about brain injuries to make a decision about whether or not the…

“Why the outrage over this?” “THIS” is limited to the claim that the boards pose a different risk of concussion than the ice. It had nothing to do with outrage over the policy, as was repeatedly made clear by my multiple comments saying the policy needs to be expanded to include any situation where a player may have…

Oh, I definitely think it’s a stupid distinction to make for policy purposes. The policy should absolutely cover hits like Crosby took. I just don’t think the claim itself is so obviously untrue as to claim that it couldn’t POSSIBLY be true is all.

Nobody is disagreeing with this. You are arguing against a position nobody is taking. I have explicitly, and repeatedly explained that I agree wholeheartedly with what you just said (except, of course, for the insulting and demeaning intro clause, which is ironic given that you seemingly still don’t understand the…

“That the league doesn’t view that as a risk worth pulling the guy aside and looking him over for, even for a few minutes, just baffles me.”

I don’t disagree with anything you said, and nothing you said is inconsistent with my posts (except for your claim that I didn’t understand why it was absurd for Daly to say the policy is justifiably limited. I agree that it should be dramatically expanded to cover all kinds of hits to the head.)

Science has not told us that ALL hits the head cause EXACTLY THE SAME degree of risk. A hit with a 2x4 is more concerning than a hit with a pillow, even when struck with the same velocity. The boards are made of different materials than ice. They can raise different degrees of risk (heck, it’d be shocking if two…

Not really. Ice is a shockingly hard surface (as someone who has slipped and fallen at least once every winter for 7 straight winters, I can personally attest to how much more it hurts to fall on ice than on anything else). So it still doesn’t seem obviously false to me that a fall on ice could raise a greater risk…

Ay yi yi, that’s not what I was asking. You actually copied and pasted the question I posed and then didn’t answer it in your reply. I suppose in response to your claim that is unrelated to my prior comments I would say “yes, all hits raise concerns and the players should be much better protected.”

I’m not disagreeing with anything you said, except when you said “no one is saying that slamming your head into the boards is equal to the ice.” Those explicit claims are the only thing I was asking about. See here, when responding to Daly’s claim: “That’s one of the single dumbest things I have ever heard a human…

Nothing that you typed is in any way inconsistent with what I said above. You’re responding to a different point that I wasn’t making.

Good lord man, you didn’t understand a single thing that I said did you? Maybe spend less time hitting Caps Lock and more time actually reading things.