Bits and Pieces: Equipment is not the NHL’s ‘small’ problem

While writing a couple of posts re a ‘small’ problem in the NHL (related to concussions), I came across an old photo that shows players getting ready for a game.


Look at their helmets. Two or three thin pieces of padded leather. Yikes.

I remember those days. I wore a similar helmet, and it now hangs in my workshop beside vintage hockey gloves and an old catcher’s mask.


["Can you spot my old helmet?": photo GH]

Helmets and mask have improved greatly in 40 - 50 years, have they not?

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