i-search post #2

When I first started this search I found it quite difficult to find any information but as I keep looking I came across some really important and useful info. The reason it is difficult is because there hasn't been much change it the players equipment but its been in the goaltenders equipment.
If you ask most young people about hockey they will tell you about the most recent things about it. But if you ask most older people they will tell you something completely different. The will tell you stuff like when the players in the NHL wore next to nothing as protection. They would tell you to "Pop in a video of the Bobby Orr era and see what the goalies wore. If they donned anything at all, it was a thin, plastic face shield. Yes, those were the days of broken noses, lost teeth, and countless lacerations or worse! to the head and body" (Prochnow). I can tell you that I have seen some of these videos and I can tell you that these guys were true players. They weren't afraid to get into the play and weren't afraid to get hurt. The fearlessness that these players like Bobby Orr and Gordy Howe had set some precidents for the players of todays National Hockey League. Im sure if you ask some of the players in the league today who some of the great players in hockey are im sure they will mention these two guys along with some of the other players that everyone knows best Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. Young kids that play hockey now look up to the players that have impacted the NHL today. They look up to Alexander Ovechkin, Sidney Crosby, Martin Brodeur and many others.








Prochnow, Bettina Young. "Injury prevention through protection." Hockeyplayer.com 12/199412/1994 22 5 2008 . (Prochnow )