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Comment on Ice hockey player Johnson dies after neck cut

What safety measure could they do? They’re already covered in protection everywhere you could put it, you can’t put anything on the neck because then you can’t turn it and the strangulation risk gets added. This is just a freak accident like many sports have occasionally. Football players sometimes suffer cardiac arrest when tackled, baseball players get hit in the chest and have the same, or get knocked in the head, sports all have some level of danger

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danwardvs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

you can’t put anything on the neck

Neck guards exist in hockey to prevent this injury. They are mandatory in most places in minor hockey but become optional in adult leagues.

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Son_of_dad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There are neck guards, which most players don’t wear. Much of the protective equipment is by choice, and leagues need to remove the choice

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
…they’re clearly not wearing neck guards because if they did they wouldn’t get their throats sliced open

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- JJROKCZ@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  And I explained in my comment why neck guards don’t really work
  
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IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Maybe carbon fiber chain mail would work?

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