Jordan Smith

[milbs06 0]

http://sports.mainetoday.com/pirates/stori...28pirates.shtml

its a real shame he was so tough when he played for the soo. i wish him and his family the best.

http://www.mightyducks.com/press/release/a...=200508&id=1019

he signed a 3 year deal too worth $600,000 a year will he get all this money?

[lando_8 0]

According to last week's Hockey News, the Ducks are planning on honoring his contract

[Patrick67 1]

Did he wear a visor?

Spine and Eyes are the worst possible places to get hurt. :(

[Viking#9 0]

Another reason why facial protection should be mandatory

[lando_8 0]

no visor, the Hockey News article makes reference that the AHL is considering making them mandatory for all players.

[DarkStar50 679]

And for all the chuckleheads here on MSH who don't get paid to play hockey but pay to play hockey: Put on a full cage.

[msander 0]

Cages make me feel extremely confined. I don't know how to best explain it, I just hate the feeling. I won't be playing w/o my visor anytime though, that's for sure.

[#96 0]

And for all the chuckleheads here on MSH who don't get paid to play hockey but pay to play hockey: Put on a full cage.

I second that! Take it from Nunzman, two fake teeth, a crooked nose, and scarred lips for roller hockey is no way to be at 27.

[milbs06 0]

every minor pro league in north america has a rule about visors and they all have to wear them. all leagues except the AHL and NHL have to wear them.

[chippa13 1844]

And for all the chuckleheads here on MSH who don't get paid to play hockey but pay to play hockey: Put on a full cage.

My visor does the job just fine, thanks.

[DarkStar50 679]

Until the game when you are spitting out a mouth full of chicklets. I'm not starting a hissing fight, either. To each his own. I've already been hit in the mouth by a puck a long, long time ago.

[chippa13 1844]

Until the game when you are spitting out a mouth full of chicklets. I'm not starting a hissing fight, either. To each his own. I've already been hit in the mouth by a puck a long, long time ago.

A mouth piece and small, well rooted teeth have survived quite a bit.

[mack 44]

I haven't seen a need for anything more than a bucket and a mouthguard in some time. Then again there are no birdcages in my league because then you get people who don't care where their sticks go.

[DarkStar50 679]

I guess you missed the part about the puck hitting me in the mouth, not a stick.

[Chadd 916]

I guess you missed the part about the puck hitting me in the mouth, not a stick.

That's just because your mouth is so much closer to the ice. ;)

[mack 44]

I guess you missed the part about the puck hitting me in the mouth, not a stick.

Oh I saw that. Tough luck.

[DarkStar50 679]

Hey, I only get pissed when the knuckleheads with no masks or a visor finally take one in the kisser and we have to stop the game and waste all this time while you bleed on the ice! :lol:

[flymonty3 0]

Hardest thing to do was always transitioning from the summer hockey w/o any cages, to putting a cage/visor back on in Jr and college.

I have tried several rifferent visors now, and cant get used to any of them to save my life, but hell my nose is already broke, and 3 front teeth are fake (And that is when i had to wear a cage) so I dont have much to loose..

On a side note, the only fights I see in Mens league are when someone gets their stick up on someone without a cage...

[Jason Harris 31]

I nailed a friend of mine accidentally last night, because he doesn't wear a cage.

I was playing RD, while he was playing LW, and the puck came up the boards. I was playing more towards the middle along the blue line, but I thought I'd beat him to the puck. Because I had been more in the middle I don't think he really saw me, so he put his head down to skate hard toward the puck.

It ended up I didn't beat him to the puck -- we tied. We were going to collide, since his head was still down, so I tried to wrap him up to soften the blow. Wrapping up, however, caused my head to come lower, so it turned out that my helmet and his nose collided. He was stunned and screamed out, "Jesus, Jason, what the f*ck got into you?!?" until the other guys let him know it was incidental.

The whole point I'm making is, while I'm aware that people claim sticks come higher in leagues with masks, I'm positive that guys who don't wear masks overreact to blows to the face because they're stunned. And the natural reaction while stunned is to lash out. It could be totally accidental but, in the split second their nose got whacked, they want revenge.

It's seemed to me that guys who wear masks don't tend to get that bloodlust.

[DarkStar50 679]

It's seemed to me that guys who wear masks don't tend to get that bloodlust.

I agree because everytime I get nailed in the mask by a stick I know that was the reason I wear the mask: to protect my face. I play every Friday with the same group for 15+ years. If one of the guys hits me in the mask with his stick, its not on purpose, it just happened. I wear the cage so I have nobody to blame but myself if I didn't and got whacked in the mush. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." Herb Brooks

[jjtt99 0]

In competitive leagues (including beer) the more protection you have around your face, the higher the sticks come up and the more hitting from behind. It's weird but it's true. Just watch US college hockey.

Wearing a visor makes you a little more vulnerable and ironically, tends to lead to less wrecklesness on the ice. I'd rather lose a chicklet or two by an errant puck than be in a wheelchair because some idiot thinks cage = invincible.