‘Concussions impact a life’: Ken Dryden wants hockey manners altered to save players’ lives
Hockey fable Ken Dryden is propelling a National Hockey League to exercise new manners that he believes will cut down on a series of concussions postulated by players during games.Â
Dryden, who won 6 Stanley Cups with a Montreal Canadiens during a 1970s, wants a NHL to reprove any play that involves a actor creation strike with a conduct of another — no exceptions.Â
“Concussions impact a life. They don’t usually impact a ability to play a sport,” Dryden tells The Current’s Anna Maria Tremonti.
‘One of a saddest tools of a whole thing is that Steve died meditative it was all his fault.’
– Ken Dryden
In his new book, Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and a Future of Hockey, a Hockey Hall of Famer and long-time concussion advocate, explores ongoing dire encephalopathy (CTE) by a comfortless predestine of one hockey actor Montador.Â
NHL defenceman Steve Montador was 35 when he died unexpected in 2015. He had ongoing dire encephalopathy, a fatal illness related to concussions postulated by years of play. (Jamie Sabau/Getty Images)
The former defenceman who played for a Calgary Flames and a Boston Bruins, died in 2015 during 35-years-old. He organised to have his mind sent for hearing to see if he had CTE, a mind illness related to steady concussions, that can usually be celebrated by an autopsy of a brain. A neuropathologist reliable he did humour from a disease.
Montador’s family is now suing a NHL, alleging a joining had unsuccessful to keep him protected and furthermore, unsuccessful to advise him of a long-term effects of mind trauma.Â
“One of a saddest tools of a whole thing is that Steve died meditative it was all his fault,” Dryden says.
“Steve was experiencing a lot of a symptoms that people with conduct injuries have. Memory problems, anxiety, depression, problem on focusing, problem in terms of creation decisions, and putting a pieces together and classification things out,” he explains.
“And so in a end, it was unequivocally a lousy life.”Â
‘It’s about a injury. It’s about a brain. It’s about a actor being hit. It’s about a outcome of it — not a cause.’
– Ken Dryden
The NHL has been underneath inspection in new years after several NHL players were found to have had concussions during a time of their deaths. It’s since Dryden feels compelled to call for a change in veteran hockey with no hits to a conduct in diversion play. Period.
“Whether they are conscious or accidental, either they are immaterial or significant, either they are from an bend or a fist or something else, it doesn’t matter,” Dryden says. “The mind doesn’t distinguish.”
“It’s about a injury. It’s about a brain. It’s about a actor being hit. It’s about a outcome of it — not a cause.”
Hockey fable Ken Dryden says NHL commissioner Gary Bettman needs to make elemental changes to veteran hockey to save players’ lives. (Sergey Smirnov)
The diversion has changed
Part of a problem, Dryden says, is how most a diversion has altered in a final 60 years — privately a speed and intensity.
“What happens is that you’ve got some-more players going after a puck. Full speed. There is reduction space, reduction time, some-more collisions and some-more forceful collisions since they are relocating faster.”Â
According to Dryden, distinct in football, there are transparent answers for how to quell a waves of conduct injuries in hockey. But it all starts with removing NHL commissioner Gary Bettman on board.
Dryden met adult with Bettman a integrate of weeks ago in New York.
‘You are a initial chairman who is reading a final chronicle of this book,’ Dryden pronounced to NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. (Penguin Random House)
“You are a initial person who is reading a final chronicle of this book since we are a … executive actor in all of this, and we need to know what’s there,” Dryden told Bettman after handing him Game Change that Bettman betrothed to read.
Dryden suspects players competence have a formidable time removing on house with a changes required to stop conduct injuries. But says usually like how the players acquiesced and now belong to a no hang to a face rule, Dryden believes a joining will tumble in line again. Â
The Current contacted a NHL to comment on a issues lifted by Ken Dryden. We have not listened back, though a invitation stays open.Â
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This shred was constructed by The Current’s Howard Goldenthal.