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NHL POSITION
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In this respect, the NHL has long been alert to the fact that the hockey sti9k can become a weapon when used in an
attempt to injure. A regimen of suspensions without pay and
game misconducts are in place to punish the intentional use of
the stick as a threat or instrument of bodily harm to NHL
players. In fact, legislation was enacted last year penalizing
even the accidental injury of an opponent by the stick.
These sanctions are the toughest in any professional sport
and are applied by the NHL in its vigilant pursuit to try to
prevent intentional injuries to players by use of the stick.
As a result of these efforts, over the past 12-year
period, covering 12,000 games, only 15 players were forced to
miss a game through injury caused by attempts to injure or
intentional injury. This represents less than one-tenth of one
percent.of the total NHL man-games lost to injury in that
period.
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