@@Kwright304 You’re right, you have to assume some risk. That being said, I would love to be sitting front row when it happens, thanks to UA-cam, your image would last forever!!
Soccer players will start flopping around on the ground after getting accidentally touched. A hockey player will break his leg, and ask to get put back in the game.
lol yeah great example is the Gregory Campbell one where he breaks his leg and stays on for the extended shift on the penalty kill, even blocking more shots.
@@pacmon5285I was a huge soccer fan before getting into hockey (long story short, my favorite player left my favorite club and I lost interest in watching anymore so hockey became the alternative) but diving is in both sports... you just see it happen more often in soccer, unfortunately
Agreed. I grew up in Vancouver, and watching Gino Odjick destroy players was pure awesome. I remember going to a game when Tie Domi and Jets were town, and in those days, two top tier goons was as big a deal as the superstars coming to town.
You got that right!! From Canada and Wendel Clark was one of my all time favourite players. I played my entire life and got a puck in my mouth and cracked one tooth and the other was in its entirety and I almost swallowed it but grabbed it, looked at it and slipped it back into its spot. A couple of days later had a root canal on it but yes, hockey is the best sport. Pretending you are hurt is just not part of its culture. My one coach always said that there is only one reason for hitting in hockey and that is to make the puck carrier lose the puck - sometimes you make the puck carrier lose the puck harder than other times ;-) and after one good hit, you get way better at keeping your head up!
The glass is tempered, meaning it will not hurt you. It is made to shatter in small pieces. No one will sue them. The fans know that ice hockey is brutal & they love it. I've been to the ice arena in Nashville. I enjoyed it so much. You need to attend a game, it is amazing.
Correct. Also known as "Safety Glass". When it breaks, it breaks into small "squares" of glass (as opposed to very sharp shards of glass), significantly reducing the chance of injury. It would be like a bucket of small stones. You sometimes still get the odd scrape or cut, but it's usually pretty minimal.
It's also on the terms and conditions of the ticket.... They're not responsible for pucks or debris or hockey players flying into the crowd accidentally
I can only speak as a Canadian. One of the things kids learn early is, if you are hurt on the ice, you get up and get back in the play or to the bench if at all possible. Lying on the ice is frowned upon. Fact is, hockey players are gladiators. My son broke his humorous and still stayed on the ice till he could get off. He was 8. He tried another shift before realizing he had no strength in his arm. Hockey players are a different breed.
Hi, I'm Canadian longtime hockey player. Still playing at 69 year old. Game is mazing as it is easy on the bones and joints, sort of. HOWEVER, it is the only sport in the world that has a penalty for fighting, that doesn't call for ejection from the game!!!! Gotta love it!
It's hard to believe that a 70 year old is still playing hockey, but I'm going to take your word for it, because that's something I _want_ to believe in.
Canadian here. As long as someone has the puck, you can hit them as hard as you want while only taking 2-3 strides. More than that is charging. You also cannot jump and leave your feet making a hit. That is also a penalty.
I grew up playing small town Canadian hockey. Nothing beats the feeling of laying someone out with a clean hit when you look down at them laying down you feel 100 ft tall.
@@Puddlef1sh Physics easily explains this. Only a 2 NFL runners crossed the 22MPH speeds in 2022 while a bunch of NHL players reached over 24 MPH with a ton averaging 22-23 MPH. You could say that the NFL has heavier guys but those guys are not running at 20+ MPH. Heavy guys hit a lower speeds so its not as hard.
@joshg72826 I can believe it. However that doesn't account the pads and helmets in football. Growing up, using your helmet as a weapon was encouraged in football.
@@Puddlef1sh I don't think we were talking necessarily about head trauma/CTE damage. Yes Football is probably worse for CTE as they hit their heads more often. Hockey this is discouraged and draws multi game suspensions. Its body to body hits.
18:00 Dustin Byfuglien was a freak of nature. His nick-name was Big Buff. He shows up 5 times on this video. He started out as a forward, and switched to defence. About 6'5 and over 265 pounds - that's 19 stones in your lingo. In the offseason close to 300lbs, and he's played at 280lbs. Only 39, he just recently packed it in - to go fishing.
correction HOCKEY is no joke, never played in the NHL and have had 6 surgeries on my knees to keep me walking, Lost over 10 teeth, and have had countless stickers all for the love of the game.
There’s an old saying. Football is a contact sport, but hockey is a collision sport! Also, no stepping out of bounds to avoid a hit in hockey! Loved the reaction!
@@jamesg7738yeah the last part was speed..they’re moving much faster and they’re not smaller than most football players besides linemen which are never moving all that fast😂Both are brutal but there is a clear winner
That is tempered glass, and it breaks into tiny pieces. It's made that way, so it's much safer than large pieces. It's the same as the side windows on a car. You can throw rocks at tempered glass, and it generally won't break, so it's pretty impact resistant
Yeah, but if you smash up a spark plug with a hammer, you only need a small piece of the white broken insulator to explode any tempered glass, and it only needs to be a light toss to do it
Hockey is the MOST underrated sport. A live NHL game is unreal. I suggest all sports fans to go! It is the hardest to play the skill level one must have to play in the NHL is unbelievable. Then you have to be one tough SOB.
@@NovaSupernovago read some articles from teams after they finish the playoffs. There is always news about a player playing with something broken and will need surgery in the off season
Yep .........true hockey fans would pick up the shards of broken glass put them in a ziplock bag . bring em home to show and brag for years to come to their friend about what happened ......LOL
I worked at an NHL arena for 5 years and pulled the glass for concerts. It's very heavy duty tempered acrylic. Its made to shatter into small pieces like automotive glass so it doesn't slice someone in half like if a window in your home broke. Very expensive and heavy stuff. Takes 4-6 people to set the pieces.
I was at a game at Maple Leaf Gardens and there was a big hit in the corner and the pane of glass popped out intact and landed in the lap of a guy sitting along the boards. It pinned him in his seat. The whistle blew and the place went quiet and we could hear the guy screaming. Attendants came over and lifted the glass off him and he got up and turned to the crowd and made several elaborate bows. The screaming was a hilarious and convincing act.
There is a player in this video that was highlighted four times for dishing out some devastating hits. He’s a Swedish player named Niklas Kronwall. Kronwall is retired from hockey now but he developed a well-deserved reputation in the National Hockey League for his bone-crushing hits. When a player was leveled by him, NHL fans would say that player was “Kronwalled.”
Scott Stevens for NJ devils was in there smoking people several times also. You could make a highlight reel this long of just him, no lie! Loved watching him.
So the rule is that the primary point of impact from a check has to be between the shoulders and the hip - You are not allowed to hit someone from behind or jump into the hit. (The defending player also has some responsibility to protect himself, such as not holding a low posture or turning their backs against the play, when they are otherwise eligible to be checked - Which is whenever they have the puck or the moments after they’ve had the puck) So these ”flips” from bellow are called hip checks or sometimes submarine checks - which are legal, as long as the primary point of impact are on the hips.
I would just add that the way things are called now vs. how they were called in the past is very different. Hits that would result in suspensions today got nothing back then. I don't think they even got penalties on the ice. Think of some of Scott Stevens' hits on Lindros or Paul Karya.
3:30 the glass is safety glass. As scary as it looks, no one was probably cut at all. Also, it would be very hard to sue unless it was a pretty significant injury. There's a disclaimer printed on tickets that typically holds up in court.
It's a difference in mentality. A soccer player will flop around like a fish at the slightest touch to try to get the referee to call a foul or give the other guy a yellow or red card. A hockey player will try to get up right away (if he isn't unconscious) to show the other guy that he can't hurt him.
Back in the early 80's, it was Gretzky's first or second season in the NHL, Edmonton vs Calgary, I watched young Gretz take a mid-ice hit from Jamie Macoun. I'd been watching hockey since the late 60's. Started my first year in minor hockey in 1970. I've never seen a bone-shaking hit as hard as that in my life. Gretzky had a few tears in his eyes as he limped off the ice but I have to hand it to him, he was back out on the ice in very short order. No coddling. He got a "welcome to the big league" bone-cruncher and he took it like a man.
Violations with penalties around hitting are: - Charging (2 minute minor) - you aren't allowed to skate at top speed for long distances (usually defined as more than 5 strides) before a hit. Glide the last few feet and you are good - Interference (2 minute) - You can only hit a person who has, or recently had possession of the puck - Hitting from behind (2 minutes) - You can't hit from behind unless unavoidable (player turns at last second). - Boarding (2 minutes) - is an extension of hitting from behind where the player goes face first into the boards. - Intentional contact to the head (came in in 2010 and tough since players are not all the same height) - Self explanatory - primary point of contact should not be the head Most other stuff is legal unless you are judged as intending to injure. You can intend to hurt each other all you want, but not injure. Hockey is a collision sport and many aspects of the game hurt. The padding is not early as thick or extensive as you may think. Also, hockey players don't like to miss shifts. You will see guys come off the ice in a lot of pain and be ready to go a minute and a half later.
Also worth explaining is that penalties generally mean that your team has one less skater on the ice versus the other team, and thus the team with more players has what is called a power play for that amount of time. During these power plays, the team with more players is usually in the offensive zone for much of it, trying to score on the other team. On a minor penalty (2 minutes, or in the case of a high stick that draws blood, a 4 minute double minor which is treated as two separate 2 minute penalties for purposes of penalty serving), the player on the penalized team has to serve the penalty until either: a) the entire duration finishes out or b) the other team scores on the team being penalized, at which time the penalty is finished and the player can return to play immediately (except the double minor, if scored during the first two minutes, the remaining 2 minute penalty still applies). If the penalty is a rather egregious one - called a major penalty, usually 5 minutes in length - the team stays penalized even if the other team scores on them. Major penalties can also result in the offending player being ejected from the game (basically, a red card for you soccer/football people) in addition to the 5 minute penalty, which would then be served by someone else on their team. P.S. Usually a full on fight between two players results in both players being assessed 5 minute majors for fighting, but as a result neither team is at a disadvantage and both teams will stay with 5 players on each side afterward. There can also be coincidental minor penalties assessed to both teams at the same time which would also keep the teams at 5-on-5 [for instance, Team A trips a player on Team B but the referee deems that Team B's player was embellishing the trip], except for some roughing penalties that would result on both teams being short a player and thus 4-on-4.
One thing I can say about the impacts. I always didn't feel quite INTO a hockey game until I got a good hit or two on me. It really brings your focus onto what's happening and locks you into the game. Getting bodied is definitely different for different people and some of my teammates did everything they could to avoid checks but I loved it.
In the Scott Stevens era, shoulder to chin was a clean hit. You can see in the slow motion replay (19:27) that his elbow is tucked and he doesn't extend his arms into the target. This was a textbook body check when it happened. However by today's standard if the principle point of contact is anywhere on the head it should be penalized. Most of his hits today would result in a major penalty and suspension (similar to a red card). So at the time they were clean, today they are not clean per the rules. Also most of the hip checks shown here where the defender sends the attacking player cartwheeling through the air are clean and a few are a little low (3:58 is borderline). At one point the commentators mention "low bridge" this is essentially targeting the legs of your opponent rather than their hip. This should be penalized. When a player who is carrying the puck sees a defender coming at them with their hip the natural reaction is to try to avoid the contact by jumping out of the way (1:00) this creates the cartwheel effect more than the hit itself. Side note, I'd rather flip over the defender than be stopped dead in my tracks like hitting a brick wall at high speed (0:20). Getting flipped will usually only bruise your ego, getting flattened in open ice will bruise (or break) your ribs.
At least 40 years of the hardest hits. When you hit with your hip, it is a legal hit. In the past couple years contact to the head is a 5 minute penalty and a board reviews, with large fines and suspensions. If a hockey player from Canada acted like a soccer player, next time he leaves the country, they would take his passport.
Niklas Kronwall was easily one of the best all time hitters of the NHL...he hit so hard they changed the rules of what you're allowed to do as a legal hit. Announcers coined the term 'Getting Kronwalled' because hits hits were like hitting a brick wall. Best hits comp: ua-cam.com/video/xTch3SEk4_4/v-deo.html
Fats, you actually don't want to sit farther up, you want to be behind the glass; the amount of times the glass breaks is very rare, but pucks (frozen discs of vulcanized rubber) flying into the stands at more than highway speeds is a common occurrence. You'd actually be safer down nearer the ice.
I was going to mention this also, and yeah to my knowledge the netting only covers behind the nets and into the corners. You're safest either behind the glass or at one of the 2 ends at any level. I prefer the middle, part way up. It's the easiest spot to catch ALL the action with no blind spots.
Love the energy you two! Here's some info: 1. The majority of these checks are clean. 2. Rinks use Safety Glass, like cars. It's designed to shatter into small pieces that barely scratch you, so large pieces don't fall down and cause serious life threatening injuries, like slice through limbs & arteries. 3. If you sit close to the glass, you accept risk, be it falling glass or flying pucks. They make multiple in game PSA announcements and videos warning fans. Fans still get injured, every year but no one sues, because Everyone knows and accepts the Risks. If you have a "let's sue" mentally, then come to the game but get seats at the edge of the first balcony at centre ice. The view is spectacular, and you have a much lower chance of injury, and everyone's happy 👍🏼.
Not plexiglass anymore. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago. Plexiglass breaks into big sections. They don’t use plexiglass anymore because of visibility. It gets marked up and scratched too easy. It’s now tempered glass
@@sagspirit1 Other way around, although you are right about the visibility of glass vs plexi. The NHL started using the "seamless" tempered glass in the 90's or 00's if I recall correctly but, by the early 2010's they had all been removed again at the request of the NHLPA in the interest of safety. I believe the reason was the glass has no "give" so, hits into the glass were more prone to injury than hits into the plastic plexi.
@cmac3530 today's nhl only allows 2 types of glass to be used in rinks....seamless tempered glass and acrylic glass with flexible stantions. Some rinks still use the tempered glass but most have switched to acrylic.....acrylic glass is the one that makes like a wave motion along the boards when contact is made.
@@mikeblanchard7579 Not from what I could find: "Following the boards and glass review, the NHL agreed that the six NHL arenas that have seamless tempered glass would be required to be replaced with a safer plexiglass system by the start of the 2011-12 season. " -NHLPA And another from an SI article paraphrasing from Bettman at the Annual GM Meetings: "In the continuing pursuit of the ultimate in player safety with regard to the rink environment, a safety engineering firm will be used to evaluate all 30 arenas and determine what changes, if any, can and should be made to to enhance the safety of the environment. For the 2011-12 season, the teams that have seamless glass behind the nets, on the sides, or surrounding the entire rink will be directed to change to plexiglass."
@@mikeblanchard7579 I googled both acrylic glass and plexiglass. They're one and the same. Poly methyl methacrylate. So again, they use plexiglass in hockey rinks. Google it and admit you didn't know the difference or more over you didn't know acrylic glass and plexiglass is the same exact thing. Also it's a form of acrylic plastic, according to Google. If it becomes cloudy or scratched they can buff it out and it will look brand new. Do Your Research.
Played hockey for many years, and the 2 best feelings/reactions are scoring a goal, and taking out someone with a good, hard, CLEAN body check. You get going, your team gets going, and the crowd loves it. There's always going to be the 'dirty' players...who habitually go for the head, or other forms of dirty hits. The NHL makes excuses by saying 'they play on the edge', but they shouldn't be out there. They don't enhance the game.
Yes regular season and playoff rules are te same the refs in the playoffs tho let some things that aren't real serious go to keep the game flowing better
Yeah I was pointing at my phone screen saying, "look bro, he's right back in the play!" However they paused at a bad time to chat and didn't catch it lol
FYI The terms and conditions printed on every ticket states that the arena as well as any club playing on their ice is not responsible for any injury that may be incurred by a a spectator. You can try suing, but you won't win.
Nice to see you reacting to Canada's national sport. It is sometimes surprising for many to learn that most of the players on American teams are Canadian; however, most of the baseball players in Canada are Americans. It's an interesting trade off. The best players are drafted into teams, with these two sports, regardless of country they are from.
@@shawnanderson6313 Your information or your source's information is incorrect. This can easily be confirmed with a proper unbiased Google search...lol
That used to be the case. Now the number of Canadian players is about 42%, with Americans and Europeans making up the other 58%. Canadians still represent the largest single nationality in the NHL but Americans are quickly catching up, and soon the players will be evenly split between Canadians, Americans, and Europeans.
@@RodRuthAs of December 4, 2023, 42.6% of NHL skaters were Canadian, with 45.7% of those players from Ontario. This is down from 75% in the 1980s and slightly less than 50% today, as the NHL has expanded to include players from other countries. In January 2024, Sound of Hockey reported that the percentage of Canadian players had dropped to 41.2%, the lowest in history. There's your Google search... His numbers seem legit to me 🤷♂️
Lacrosse is Canada's official national sport, not hockey. It is another game that features players carrying big sticks beating the crap out of each other.
@@daveattheholdens Correction: Canada is considered to have two "official" national sports. Lacrosse is the official national summer sport, and hockey is the official national winter sport.
Ice hockey fan here from Los Angeles. Go Kings Go! Welcome to Hockey my British cousins!!! I watch all sports and am a fan of all sports. However, hockey has become my #1 favorite since 2012. (When LA Kings won their first Stanley Cup) I’m happy to see anyone take an interest in hockey
As a Canucks fan I'm a little salty that your team got their first of two Cups right after we failed in 2011 [also, neither version of my hometown Winnipeg Jets fared any better] 😡but I agree with you, hockey is an amazing sport and it's nice to see people learn about it 😄
I remember traveling to Yellowknife in Canada to play when I was 15, they had the chicken wire instead of glass, I’ll take the glass any day of the week
Growing up with it, you forget how it would look to someone who never has seen it before. I love how every one who reacts to one of these says some version of “that can’t be legal, right?” 🇨🇦
There are rules to the checks. Player being hit must have the puck You can not leave your feet before the hit(jumping/lunging) Can only check with shoulders or hip(no elbows up) Don't hit the head( shoulder/hip to body ) No checking from behind Player enforced rules: if you play rough with the star players of the team, the enforcer of the other team is gonna pay it back.
Clean hits are different for each generation of the sport,Rules change. If the puck is on your stick or around your feet,you’re an open target. Keep your head up is the moral of the story Yass ✌️ Glass seats are very expensive Fats 👍
They used to use shatterproof plexiglass along the boards, but it is much more dangerous when it breaks and large pieces start falling. The local rink that I went to as a kid in Eastern Ontario had chain link fencing instead of glass. The current tempered glass setup is pretty good. It has some give to it and doesn't catch you like the chain link did.
9:55 That was not his team lol their logos look similar. The guy hitting (Konstantinov) played for the Detroit Red Wings and the guy he hit was on the Philadelphia Flyers. You both should react to Niklas Kronwall hits
When your growing up and playing hockey in Canada, there are 2 sentences repeated over and over again from coaches, players and parents. 1) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP and 2) KEEP YOUR STICK ON THE ICE. Hockey is the best sport in the world and you have to be very tough to play it.
Yeah and I think last year someone died in juniors or international hockey from a skate to the neck. I know USA hockey starting this fall is mandating neck guards for all under 18 year old players.
The glass back during the Lindin hit at 3:18 was tempered glass, but players were starting to get major shoulder injury's and concussions from being hit into it. The glass had no give because it had to be solidly fixed into place to avoid breaking. The NHL started the swap to Plexiglas in 2011, and the glass now can move along with an impact, reducing injury, and the glass no longer shatters into a million pieces.
I am a Canadian who has played hockey all my life. You are allowed to hit a guy low so that he cartwheels over you. This is generally known as a "hip check" and is within the rules. Note that you cannot hit a guy at the knees or below the knees either with your stick or your legs (knee). This is a penalty. Depending on the severity (tripping, slew foot, knee on knee) this can result in a two minute minor penalty (tripping), or a five minute major penalty (knee on knee), or a 10 minute major penalty (intent to injure) or even fines and suspensions for deliberate intent to injure for deliberate hits to the knee.
MOST of these hits... are perfectly legal in hockey. Recently the rules changed to get away from hits where you hit the opponents head before any other impact cause those are where most of the concussions in hockey come from. HOWEVER most of these hits are just clean legal no penalty big boom hits.
You sit in the front rows at your own risk. Baseball is the same way. If you get hit in the head with a baseball, it's YOUR fault for not paying attention. It's just the way it is. Also the glass, like you car windows are designed to shatter into a million (mostly harmless) pellets instead of dangerous shards. And those fans buy those seats just for this reason. They HOPE somebody gets blasted through the glass.
That's why they added nets for both sports to prevent the foul ball in baseball on the right/left sides, and especially behind the glass and to the corners and more with hockey.
You have to understand.... You are moving at like 30-35 kms an hour on skates... and an opposing force of another 25-30km speed in the opposite direction hits you body on body... It's a LOT of impact. Connor McDavid has reached speeds of 40km/h in games before. And then you meet a wall of a body going the other direction. It's why hockey is crazy for their hits. That hit onto Brad Marchand was absolutely monstrous when I first saw it in the game. Subban, (a fast skater), managed to pull off a body check by maintaining momentum and basically just hitting him with speed and it's a devastating thing to watch.
I still can’t get the image of some of the gnarliest injuries I ever saw on my life playing hockey as a kid. These are hands down the toughest men on the planet. My favorite memory was losing my cool in a tournament against a team from BC, taking a major penalty and game misconduct sticking my leg out for a brutal knee on knee trip at the blue line. After the game the Canadian kid came charging up to me with a shit eating grin on his face grabbed my hand to shake it, and said, “Holy hell man, when you took me out at the knee I almost lost it on ya eh!” I try thought he was gonna slug me but then he invited me to some after party thing they were doing at their hotel 🤣 Canadians are the craziest, scariest people on the ice and the most genuinely friendly people as soon as the final horn sounds!
10:35 mark has got to be one of my all time faves. I remember I was in grade 7 at the time and the Leafs were just incredible that year. Best Maple Leafs team to date in my honest opinion. I actually met Darcy Tucker about a month ago, he's a super nice guy. Always smiling.
Those panes of glass are suppose to flex because it helps absorb impact of hits… imagine if you had bullet proof glass or something more stiff .. you would absolutely fucking kill someone. The average skate speeds are like 25-35 km an hour. Some have reached 40km an hour speed … imagine someone 200-280 pounds skating that fast and hitting you .. these guys suffer so many concussions it’s crazy ..another crazy injury these guys gets is the puck to the face .. imagine hard rubber coming at you at 100mph!!!!
In the 30s,40s, 50s and the 1960s they used chainlink fences, but they were hurting places and cutting them, they switched to plexiglass in the 1960s and 70s, and the as time went on they became less and less prone to shattering, but they will shatter if you put enough force on it, Slaps shots over 95 mph can shatter them as can a full hit by the largest players break the glass, but for the most part each rink only has to replace 4 or 5 panes a year from play(they end up replacing them every five or six years from wear and tear.
The hit where the guy did a front flip is called a hip check, and they are legal as long as it's hip to hip (waist against waist) if you go low and contact the knee it's illegal and a kneeing penalty and if it's deemed intentional can result in a multiple game suspension, and hockey rinks use plexiglass, it's very flexible and strong, but they don't get replaced all the time and wear and tear can make the edges weak and cause them to shatter or Crack
It's called "safety" glass, and it's actually designed to shatter into harmless little chunks, rather than to split into large shards which can kill you. Also, the "low" checks are called hip checks, which are completely legal, as long as you hit them above the knees.
Hockey has penalties. Some of these hits resulted in penalty minutes. Minors are 2 minutes where the player goes to the penalty box and their teem plays those minutes with one less player. There are also Double Minors which is 4 minutes and Majors which is 5 minutes. Players can also get game misconduct and be removed from the game and they can be fined by the league.
The glass is actually designed to shatter like that. The older glass would break in sheets and was actually more dangerous because it could slice right through someone. You also mentioned using a cage. Before glass, they used to use chain link fencing. There was a rink I played at as a kid back in the 90s that still had the fencing.
That glass breaker hit was back in 1994 during the playoffs, when the glass breaks it "cubes", its safety glass, and no you can't sue when you go to a hockey game and get hit by a puck or have the glass break on you, you accept the risk implicitly when you purchase your ticket
In my province, kids can’t use body contact until they’re 14. They go through training on how to give and take hits. Rule #1, keep your head up. They also have head to toe protective equipment on under their jerseys and pants!! Crazy how hard they get hit and don’t get hurt usually!
Scott Stevens was the best hitter ever. If there wasn't a penalty called, then it was judged clean. I'm amazed that people are still crying about Stevens hits 30 years after the fact, but then again, that's the excuse they use for their teams losing championships.
Just a tip--take it or leave it--over here we call it "Hockey" not ice hockey-- here that is like saying "ice figure skating" or "water Olympic Diving", or "pointy Darts"-- yes, girls here play "field hockey" and we call it that because it has not relation to real Hockey. the ice is not necessary.
Two men colliding at a combined 60 miles per hour or more? Yeah, it hurts. RE: the broken glass: it's safety glass, designed to shatter into millions of pellets rather than into sharp shards. People rarely get cut by it. Every HNL ticket has a disclaimer on it that states that fans are warned that they can be hit or injured by pucks, sticks, glass, etc and that they assume that risk, themselves. It's a reason why I always sit in the upper deck (besides the better overall view of the game). "Going low" is a hip check. So long as your hip makes contact with an opponent's hip or upper thigh, it's a legal check, even if the guy does cartwheel through the air. Hitting someone at the knees like that is right out.
The low hit you were questioning around 12:20 is called a hip check, the player uses their hip to hit the player instead of their sholder. It's legal in the game and has different outcomes depending on where it is. Open ice hip checks can cause a player to fly over the hitter, while hip checks on the boards normally just push the guy and cause them to lose their balence. It's hard to line up a guy like that clip because of how the hitter has to position themselves with the other player, thats why it doesn't happen all the time.
The Scott Stevens hit was legal at the time (1995) Eric Lindros had his head looking down at the puck because it started to slide off his stick when Stevens began to step up. Even today, you don't look at the puck...KEEP YOUR HEAD UP.
True, the standards are a bit different in the last decade or two with the knowledge that professional leagues like the NHL (and NFL) have about concussions and as such are stricter with what they allow in terms of hits. They also have concussion spotters hired by the league to watch for those type of hits and they have the power to request a player leave the game to undergo concussion protocols. And yes, always keep your head up 😂
Scott Steven's hit was legal at the time. After we learned how bad concussions are long term it became not ok to target the head. It would be a penalty and possible suspension today.
What I like most about hockey as I played it for 25 years is it's five times faster than any other team sport, fighting is legal. You get a five minute penalty and usually two minutes for roughing and the game is much more physical and violent than any other sport with the exception to lacrosse. It is by far the greatest sport in the world. Don't forget to check your ego at the door when you get on the ice.
Glass Shattering like that is VERY rare...it is fairly shatter proof and about an inch thick. Also, spectators cannot sue for the broken glass, pucks into the crowd or other such events because the ticket reads that by continuing to sit where your ticket is, you assume all risks and responsibilities and that if you feel unsafe, let staff know and they will try and move you to a more secure seating location.
Metal cage (chicken wire) instead of plexiglass is very old school. Back in my days (early 2000s) of playing junior ice hockey in Finland, only the smallest cities with the cheapest rinks would have that. It was really annoying as it makes the puck bounce completely randomly in whichever direction
From Montreal, the hardest cup to win is the Stanley Cup, imagine you must win 4 best of 7 games to reach the cup, so you play the same team 4 to 7 times, there is a lot of anymosety between the teams and often they get revenge the next game for a bad hit, and at the end of each series they shake hands. (when the player flips over another player, it's called a hip check)
The audience would not sue, sitting through the glass shattering would be a badge of honour for a true fan, and extreme bragging rights.
They can't sue. It's in the TOS they agreed to when they bought the tickets.
I would want some tickets to an upcoming game.
Read the fine print on your ticket sometime lol. You can’t sue.
@@Kwright304 You’re right, you have to assume some risk. That being said, I would love to be sitting front row when it happens, thanks to UA-cam, your image would last forever!!
If you go to a hockey game and buy tickets for any of the first 3 rows you should automatically be fully aware of what could happen at any time lol
Soccer players will start flopping around on the ground after getting accidentally touched. A hockey player will break his leg, and ask to get put back in the game.
I actually really enjoy soccer, but the fake dives are a blight on the sport. It's pathetic.
The soccer player might start flopping if they were ALMOST touched!
Soccer is pathetic!🫷Hockey is badass.... it's played with Men, real men🤘🏴☠️
lol yeah great example is the Gregory Campbell one where he breaks his leg and stays on for the extended shift on the penalty kill, even blocking more shots.
@@pacmon5285I was a huge soccer fan before getting into hockey (long story short, my favorite player left my favorite club and I lost interest in watching anymore so hockey became the alternative) but diving is in both sports... you just see it happen more often in soccer, unfortunately
A hockey player will literally pick his teeth up of the ice and then play his next shift . They are a different breed . Cheers .
Seen one guy get stitches in his face in the hallway behind the bench so he wouldn't miss too much time. It was the playoffs, tho, so there was that.
I’m from Minnesota I’ve been playing all my life, Hockey is a sport for people who love controlled violence, greatest sport ever
Only sport where you can actually fight. Well, in certain point referees will end the fight. Hello from Finland. Did you like Mikko Koivu?
Agreed. I grew up in Vancouver, and watching Gino Odjick destroy players was pure awesome. I remember going to a game when Tie Domi and Jets were town, and in those days, two top tier goons was as big a deal as the superstars coming to town.
@@nervanderi loved him 👍🏻
Amen
You got that right!! From Canada and Wendel Clark was one of my all time favourite players. I played my entire life and got a puck in my mouth and cracked one tooth and the other was in its entirety and I almost swallowed it but grabbed it, looked at it and slipped it back into its spot. A couple of days later had a root canal on it but yes, hockey is the best sport. Pretending you are hurt is just not part of its culture. My one coach always said that there is only one reason for hitting in hockey and that is to make the puck carrier lose the puck - sometimes you make the puck carrier lose the puck harder than other times ;-) and after one good hit, you get way better at keeping your head up!
The glass is tempered, meaning it will not hurt you. It is made to shatter in small pieces. No one will sue them. The fans know that ice hockey is brutal & they love it. I've been to the ice arena in Nashville. I enjoyed it so much. You need to attend a game, it is amazing.
Broken glass is just free souvenirs for hockey fans, shame it almost never happens anymore with new tech.
Anyone whose played or is familiar with hockey knows the glass is nothing compared to if those skates come over!
Correct. Also known as "Safety Glass". When it breaks, it breaks into small "squares" of glass (as opposed to very sharp shards of glass), significantly reducing the chance of injury. It would be like a bucket of small stones. You sometimes still get the odd scrape or cut, but it's usually pretty minimal.
It's also on the terms and conditions of the ticket.... They're not responsible for pucks or debris or hockey players flying into the crowd accidentally
@@DashRiprock513 yes. Many events have that disclaimer on them.
The hit that makes them flip is called a hip check. As long as you hit them with your hip or butt its legal.
Just to add to this, you also can't target the knees with this hit. But above the knees is legal
@@leahd4611 Hitting at the knees is where its deemed to be a "clipping" penalty.
In hockey culture (Canadian) acting hurt is not tolerated. If a guy stays down you know he's really hurt.
Exactly.
I can only speak as a Canadian. One of the things kids learn early is, if you are hurt on the ice, you get up and get back in the play or to the bench if at all possible. Lying on the ice is frowned upon. Fact is, hockey players are gladiators. My son broke his humorous and still stayed on the ice till he could get off. He was 8. He tried another shift before realizing he had no strength in his arm. Hockey players are a different breed.
Unless he's Claude Lemieux, or MARIO Lemieux, or Matthew Barnaby, or Sean Avery, or Darcy Tucker, or, well...
Unless u r the Florida panthers. They go down like soccer players.
The glass very strong. But it’s safety glass. Nothing happens to the fans.
@@CN-uc6pyA broken humourous is nothing to laugh at...
Hi, I'm Canadian longtime hockey player. Still playing at 69 year old. Game is mazing as it is easy on the bones and joints, sort of. HOWEVER, it is the only sport in the world that has a penalty for fighting, that doesn't call for ejection from the game!!!! Gotta love it!
It's hard to believe that a 70 year old is still playing hockey, but I'm going to take your word for it, because that's something I _want_ to believe in.
Canadian here. As long as someone has the puck, you can hit them as hard as you want while only taking 2-3 strides. More than that is charging. You also cannot jump and leave your feet making a hit. That is also a penalty.
Also can't target the head (nowadays) or risk suspension or elbow the player in the act of checking and incur a penalty. (Also Canadian)
@@CanuckGod Or hit a player in the back, from behind, forcing them into the boards forwards.
Good that elbow cheks been penalysed@@CanuckGod
I grew up playing small town Canadian hockey. Nothing beats the feeling of laying someone out with a clean hit when you look down at them laying down you feel 100 ft tall.
this made me laugh lol
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Stopped playing when I aged out from contact games. Literally played the sport just to hit people.
To put it in perspective; the average hit in hockey is %17-%20 harder than the average NFL hit. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦🤘
Is there anything to back that up? Played both.
@@Puddlef1sh Physics easily explains this. Only a 2 NFL runners crossed the 22MPH speeds in 2022 while a bunch of NHL players reached over 24 MPH with a ton averaging 22-23 MPH. You could say that the NFL has heavier guys but those guys are not running at 20+ MPH. Heavy guys hit a lower speeds so its not as hard.
@Puddlef1sh there have been studies. I think a program called Science of Sports or something like that has looked at it as well.
@joshg72826 I can believe it. However that doesn't account the pads and helmets in football. Growing up, using your helmet as a weapon was encouraged in football.
@@Puddlef1sh I don't think we were talking necessarily about head trauma/CTE damage. Yes Football is probably worse for CTE as they hit their heads more often. Hockey this is discouraged and draws multi game suspensions. Its body to body hits.
18:00 Dustin Byfuglien was a freak of nature. His nick-name was Big Buff. He shows up 5 times on this video. He started out as a forward, and switched to defence. About 6'5 and over 265 pounds - that's 19 stones in your lingo. In the offseason close to 300lbs, and he's played at 280lbs. Only 39, he just recently packed it in - to go fishing.
NHL hockey is no joke.🇺🇸🇨🇦
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 FJT FJB
correction HOCKEY is no joke, never played in the NHL and have had 6 surgeries on my knees to keep me walking, Lost over 10 teeth, and have had countless stickers all for the love of the game.
Minor league hockey can get absolutely mental.
@@dl2one
Give us a break. No one cares about your political opinions.
@@dl2oneFDT and all of his deplorable followers that got their heads up in his colon licking it clean.
There’s an old saying. Football is a contact sport, but hockey is a collision sport! Also, no stepping out of bounds to avoid a hit in hockey! Loved the reaction!
American football 🏈 not British football or as Canadians and U.S call it soccer ⚽️
Hockey players are about 80 lbs smaller than NFL players.There's no comparing- force = mass times speed.
@@jamesg7738yeah the last part was speed..they’re moving much faster and they’re not smaller than most football players besides linemen which are never moving all that fast😂Both are brutal but there is a clear winner
That is tempered glass, and it breaks into tiny pieces. It's made that way, so it's much safer than large pieces. It's the same as the side windows on a car. You can throw rocks at tempered glass, and it generally won't break, so it's pretty impact resistant
It wasn't always which is a horrifying thought lol.
Yeah, but if you smash up a spark plug with a hammer, you only need a small piece of the white broken insulator to explode any tempered glass, and it only needs to be a light toss to do it
Hockey is the MOST underrated sport. A live NHL game is unreal. I suggest all sports fans to go! It is the hardest to play the skill level one must have to play in the NHL is unbelievable. Then you have to be one tough SOB.
One thing about the sport of hockey is that by the time of the NHL playoffs all the players are hurting. Many players play with broken bones.
Tell that to the Vegas Knights.. lmao.
They will not play with broken bones. Not in todays game. In the 60's and 70's maybe.
@@NovaSupernova Oh honey...
@@NovaSupernovago read some articles from teams after they finish the playoffs. There is always news about a player playing with something broken and will need surgery in the off season
@@davidwaxter66 Either that's someone who doesn't know hockey or a troll. My guess is the latter. Oh well.
Lmao😂No true hockey fan would sue for the broken glass😂
Yep .........true hockey fans would pick up the shards of broken glass put them in a ziplock bag . bring em home to show and brag for years to come to their friend about what happened
......LOL
I worked at an NHL arena for 5 years and pulled the glass for concerts. It's very heavy duty tempered acrylic. Its made to shatter into small pieces like automotive glass so it doesn't slice someone in half like if a window in your home broke. Very expensive and heavy stuff. Takes 4-6 people to set the pieces.
I was at a game at Maple Leaf Gardens and there was a big hit in the corner and the pane of glass popped out intact and landed in the lap of a guy sitting along the boards. It pinned him in his seat. The whistle blew and the place went quiet and we could hear the guy screaming. Attendants came over and lifted the glass off him and he got up and turned to the crowd and made several elaborate bows. The screaming was a hilarious and convincing act.
There is a player in this video that was highlighted four times for dishing out some devastating hits. He’s a Swedish player named Niklas Kronwall. Kronwall is retired from hockey now but he developed a well-deserved reputation in the National Hockey League for his bone-crushing hits. When a player was leveled by him, NHL fans would say that player was “Kronwalled.”
Scott Stevens for NJ devils was in there smoking people several times also. You could make a highlight reel this long of just him, no lie! Loved watching him.
Thank you !!!! #LGRW
This is why Americans and Canadians laugh when "football" players get hurt.
There was a hockey player whose heart stopped on the bench. When he was resuscitated he asked how long was left in the game
3:20 i was just a kid watching my captain do that. Linden wasn't even a known big hitter. That was a beautiful moment. ❤
So the rule is that the primary point of impact from a check has to be between the shoulders and the hip - You are not allowed to hit someone from behind or jump into the hit.
(The defending player also has some responsibility to protect himself, such as not holding a low posture or turning their backs against the play, when they are otherwise eligible to be checked - Which is whenever they have the puck or the moments after they’ve had the puck)
So these ”flips” from bellow are called hip checks or sometimes submarine checks - which are legal, as long as the primary point of impact are on the hips.
I would just add that the way things are called now vs. how they were called in the past is very different. Hits that would result in suspensions today got nothing back then. I don't think they even got penalties on the ice. Think of some of Scott Stevens' hits on Lindros or Paul Karya.
Some of thenlow hits in this video would probably be called now.
3:30 the glass is safety glass. As scary as it looks, no one was probably cut at all.
Also, it would be very hard to sue unless it was a pretty significant injury. There's a disclaimer printed on tickets that typically holds up in court.
All NHL arena's started transitioning away from seamless tempered glass back in 2011. They all have Plexiglass now, which doesn't shatter.
It's a difference in mentality. A soccer player will flop around like a fish at the slightest touch to try to get the referee to call a foul or give the other guy a yellow or red card. A hockey player will try to get up right away (if he isn't unconscious) to show the other guy that he can't hurt him.
It brings me joy to get to see someone experience hockey like this for the first time.
As someone from Boston who had friends at the game where Lucic broken the glass, our fans went ballastic fter. They love the carnage!
Boston has the best fans
Back in the early 80's, it was Gretzky's first or second season in the NHL, Edmonton vs Calgary, I watched young Gretz take a mid-ice hit from Jamie Macoun. I'd been watching hockey since the late 60's. Started my first year in minor hockey in 1970. I've never seen a bone-shaking hit as hard as that in my life. Gretzky had a few tears in his eyes as he limped off the ice but I have to hand it to him, he was back out on the ice in very short order. No coddling. He got a "welcome to the big league" bone-cruncher and he took it like a man.
Violations with penalties around hitting are:
- Charging (2 minute minor) - you aren't allowed to skate at top speed for long distances (usually defined as more than 5 strides) before a hit. Glide the last few feet and you are good
- Interference (2 minute) - You can only hit a person who has, or recently had possession of the puck
- Hitting from behind (2 minutes) - You can't hit from behind unless unavoidable (player turns at last second).
- Boarding (2 minutes) - is an extension of hitting from behind where the player goes face first into the boards.
- Intentional contact to the head (came in in 2010 and tough since players are not all the same height) - Self explanatory - primary point of contact should not be the head
Most other stuff is legal unless you are judged as intending to injure. You can intend to hurt each other all you want, but not injure.
Hockey is a collision sport and many aspects of the game hurt. The padding is not early as thick or extensive as you may think. Also, hockey players don't like to miss shifts. You will see guys come off the ice in a lot of pain and be ready to go a minute and a half later.
Also worth explaining is that penalties generally mean that your team has one less skater on the ice versus the other team, and thus the team with more players has what is called a power play for that amount of time. During these power plays, the team with more players is usually in the offensive zone for much of it, trying to score on the other team. On a minor penalty (2 minutes, or in the case of a high stick that draws blood, a 4 minute double minor which is treated as two separate 2 minute penalties for purposes of penalty serving), the player on the penalized team has to serve the penalty until either: a) the entire duration finishes out or b) the other team scores on the team being penalized, at which time the penalty is finished and the player can return to play immediately (except the double minor, if scored during the first two minutes, the remaining 2 minute penalty still applies). If the penalty is a rather egregious one - called a major penalty, usually 5 minutes in length - the team stays penalized even if the other team scores on them. Major penalties can also result in the offending player being ejected from the game (basically, a red card for you soccer/football people) in addition to the 5 minute penalty, which would then be served by someone else on their team.
P.S. Usually a full on fight between two players results in both players being assessed 5 minute majors for fighting, but as a result neither team is at a disadvantage and both teams will stay with 5 players on each side afterward. There can also be coincidental minor penalties assessed to both teams at the same time which would also keep the teams at 5-on-5 [for instance, Team A trips a player on Team B but the referee deems that Team B's player was embellishing the trip], except for some roughing penalties that would result on both teams being short a player and thus 4-on-4.
One thing I can say about the impacts. I always didn't feel quite INTO a hockey game until I got a good hit or two on me. It really brings your focus onto what's happening and locks you into the game. Getting bodied is definitely different for different people and some of my teammates did everything they could to avoid checks but I loved it.
A hockey game without a couple good lay downs is considered a boring affair.
In the Scott Stevens era, shoulder to chin was a clean hit. You can see in the slow motion replay (19:27) that his elbow is tucked and he doesn't extend his arms into the target. This was a textbook body check when it happened. However by today's standard if the principle point of contact is anywhere on the head it should be penalized. Most of his hits today would result in a major penalty and suspension (similar to a red card). So at the time they were clean, today they are not clean per the rules. Also most of the hip checks shown here where the defender sends the attacking player cartwheeling through the air are clean and a few are a little low (3:58 is borderline). At one point the commentators mention "low bridge" this is essentially targeting the legs of your opponent rather than their hip. This should be penalized. When a player who is carrying the puck sees a defender coming at them with their hip the natural reaction is to try to avoid the contact by jumping out of the way (1:00) this creates the cartwheel effect more than the hit itself. Side note, I'd rather flip over the defender than be stopped dead in my tracks like hitting a brick wall at high speed (0:20). Getting flipped will usually only bruise your ego, getting flattened in open ice will bruise (or break) your ribs.
The old saying is, 'Keep your head on a swivel'.
Hockey players are a different breed 😂❤
At least 40 years of the hardest hits. When you hit with your hip, it is a legal hit. In the past couple years contact to the head is a 5 minute penalty and a board reviews, with large fines and suspensions.
If a hockey player from Canada acted like a soccer player, next time he leaves the country, they would take his passport.
Niklas Kronwall was easily one of the best all time hitters of the NHL...he hit so hard they changed the rules of what you're allowed to do as a legal hit. Announcers coined the term 'Getting Kronwalled' because hits hits were like hitting a brick wall. Best hits comp: ua-cam.com/video/xTch3SEk4_4/v-deo.html
Fats, you actually don't want to sit farther up, you want to be behind the glass; the amount of times the glass breaks is very rare, but pucks (frozen discs of vulcanized rubber) flying into the stands at more than highway speeds is a common occurrence. You'd actually be safer down nearer the ice.
The best place to sit is one of the corners of the rink, high enough up to see to the whole ice.
They put netting up to prevent that ever since that teen girl who died like a decade or so ago, I think during a Carolina Hurricane game.
@@G3NK5T42 That's only behind each of the nets. Along the sides of the ice there is not netting
I was going to mention this also, and yeah to my knowledge the netting only covers behind the nets and into the corners. You're safest either behind the glass or at one of the 2 ends at any level. I prefer the middle, part way up. It's the easiest spot to catch ALL the action with no blind spots.
@@G3NK5T42 wasn't that Mia Khalifa?
Love the energy you two! Here's some info:
1. The majority of these checks are clean.
2. Rinks use Safety Glass, like cars. It's designed to shatter into small pieces that barely scratch you, so large pieces don't fall down and cause serious life threatening injuries, like slice through limbs & arteries.
3. If you sit close to the glass, you accept risk, be it falling glass or flying pucks. They make multiple in game PSA announcements and videos warning fans. Fans still get injured, every year but no one sues, because Everyone knows and accepts the Risks. If you have a "let's sue" mentally, then come to the game but get seats at the edge of the first balcony at centre ice. The view is spectacular, and you have a much lower chance of injury, and everyone's happy 👍🏼.
Its crazy the glass shatters like that since the glass is actually plexiglass.
Not plexiglass anymore. Maybe 20 or 30 years ago. Plexiglass breaks into big sections. They don’t use plexiglass anymore because of visibility. It gets marked up and scratched too easy. It’s now tempered glass
@@sagspirit1 Other way around, although you are right about the visibility of glass vs plexi. The NHL started using the "seamless" tempered glass in the 90's or 00's if I recall correctly but, by the early 2010's they had all been removed again at the request of the NHLPA in the interest of safety.
I believe the reason was the glass has no "give" so, hits into the glass were more prone to injury than hits into the plastic plexi.
@cmac3530 today's nhl only allows 2 types of glass to be used in rinks....seamless tempered glass and acrylic glass with flexible stantions. Some rinks still use the tempered glass but most have switched to acrylic.....acrylic glass is the one that makes like a wave motion along the boards when contact is made.
@@mikeblanchard7579 Not from what I could find: "Following the boards and glass review, the NHL agreed that the six NHL arenas that have seamless tempered glass would be required to be replaced with a safer plexiglass system by the start of the 2011-12 season. " -NHLPA
And another from an SI article paraphrasing from Bettman at the Annual GM Meetings: "In the continuing pursuit of the ultimate in player safety with regard to the rink environment, a safety engineering firm will be used to evaluate all 30 arenas and determine what changes, if any, can and should be made to to enhance the safety of the environment. For the 2011-12 season, the teams that have seamless glass behind the nets, on the sides, or surrounding the entire rink will be directed to change to plexiglass."
@@mikeblanchard7579 I googled both acrylic glass and plexiglass. They're one and the same. Poly methyl methacrylate. So again, they use plexiglass in hockey rinks. Google it and admit you didn't know the difference or more over you didn't know acrylic glass and plexiglass is the same exact thing. Also it's a form of acrylic plastic, according to Google. If it becomes cloudy or scratched they can buff it out and it will look brand new. Do Your Research.
Played hockey for many years, and the 2 best feelings/reactions are scoring a goal, and taking out someone with a good, hard, CLEAN body check. You get going, your team gets going, and the crowd loves it. There's always going to be the 'dirty' players...who habitually go for the head, or other forms of dirty hits. The NHL makes excuses by saying 'they play on the edge', but they shouldn't be out there. They don't enhance the game.
And regular season vs. Play-off games rules are not same?😂 Yeah I know I´m from Finland 😂
Yes regular season and playoff rules are te same the refs in the playoffs tho let some things that aren't real serious go to keep the game flowing better
many teams include a waiver of liability in the ticket purchase
"Thats when you know that guy isnt getting up for a while" and he gets right up.
Yeah I was pointing at my phone screen saying, "look bro, he's right back in the play!" However they paused at a bad time to chat and didn't catch it lol
FYI The terms and conditions printed on every ticket states that the arena as well as any club playing on their ice is not responsible for any injury that may be incurred by a a spectator. You can try suing, but you won't win.
Nice to see you reacting to Canada's national sport. It is sometimes surprising for many to learn that most of the players on American teams are Canadian; however, most of the baseball players in Canada are Americans. It's an interesting trade off. The best players are drafted into teams, with these two sports, regardless of country they are from.
@@shawnanderson6313 Your information or your source's information is incorrect. This can easily be confirmed with a proper unbiased Google search...lol
That used to be the case. Now the number of Canadian players is about 42%, with Americans and Europeans making up the other 58%. Canadians still represent the largest single nationality in the NHL but Americans are quickly catching up, and soon the players will be evenly split between Canadians, Americans, and Europeans.
@@RodRuthAs of December 4, 2023, 42.6% of NHL skaters were Canadian, with 45.7% of those players from Ontario. This is down from 75% in the 1980s and slightly less than 50% today, as the NHL has expanded to include players from other countries. In January 2024, Sound of Hockey reported that the percentage of Canadian players had dropped to 41.2%, the lowest in history.
There's your Google search... His numbers seem legit to me 🤷♂️
Lacrosse is Canada's official national sport, not hockey. It is another game that features players carrying big sticks beating the crap out of each other.
@@daveattheholdens Correction: Canada is considered to have two "official" national sports. Lacrosse is the official national summer sport, and hockey is the official national winter sport.
Ice hockey fan here from Los Angeles. Go Kings Go! Welcome to Hockey my British cousins!!! I watch all sports and am a fan of all sports. However, hockey has become my #1 favorite since 2012. (When LA Kings won their first Stanley Cup) I’m happy to see anyone take an interest in hockey
As a Canucks fan I'm a little salty that your team got their first of two Cups right after we failed in 2011 [also, neither version of my hometown Winnipeg Jets fared any better] 😡but I agree with you, hockey is an amazing sport and it's nice to see people learn about it 😄
Watch the film from the 1970s called Slap Shot.
I remember traveling to Yellowknife in Canada to play when I was 15, they had the chicken wire instead of glass, I’ll take the glass any day of the week
yay, more NHL stuff please. Good times.
Submarining or getting below the knees is a penalty
Hitting with the hips above the knees is legal.
Growing up with it, you forget how it would look to someone who never has seen it before. I love how every one who reacts to one of these says some version of “that can’t be legal, right?” 🇨🇦
There are rules to the checks.
Player being hit must have the puck
You can not leave your feet before the hit(jumping/lunging)
Can only check with shoulders or hip(no elbows up)
Don't hit the head( shoulder/hip to body )
No checking from behind
Player enforced rules: if you play rough with the star players of the team, the enforcer of the other team is gonna pay it back.
Clean hits are different for each generation of the sport,Rules change. If the puck is on your stick or around your feet,you’re an open target. Keep your head up is the moral of the story Yass ✌️ Glass seats are very expensive Fats 👍
They used to use shatterproof plexiglass along the boards, but it is much more dangerous when it breaks and large pieces start falling. The local rink that I went to as a kid in Eastern Ontario had chain link fencing instead of glass.
The current tempered glass setup is pretty good. It has some give to it and doesn't catch you like the chain link did.
9:55 That was not his team lol their logos look similar. The guy hitting (Konstantinov) played for the Detroit Red Wings and the guy he hit was on the Philadelphia Flyers. You both should react to Niklas Kronwall hits
I literally went right to the comments to say this lol. Definitely not the same team. also Vladdy 💙💙💙
When your growing up and playing hockey in Canada, there are 2 sentences repeated over and over again from coaches, players and parents. 1) KEEP YOUR HEAD UP and 2) KEEP YOUR STICK ON THE ICE. Hockey is the best sport in the world and you have to be very tough to play it.
There have been injuries involving skates accidentally hitting another guy's neck. Clint Malarchuk and Richard Zedik is the perfect example.
Yeah and I think last year someone died in juniors or international hockey from a skate to the neck. I know USA hockey starting this fall is mandating neck guards for all under 18 year old players.
A fundamental rule in hockey in Canada is to keep your head up at all times ! Otherwise, you may get crunched.
The ones that their heads smash into the ice are the most devastating blows
The glass back during the Lindin hit at 3:18 was tempered glass, but players were starting to get major shoulder injury's and concussions from being hit into it. The glass had no give because it had to be solidly fixed into place to avoid breaking. The NHL started the swap to Plexiglas in 2011, and the glass now can move along with an impact, reducing injury, and the glass no longer shatters into a million pieces.
You should check out the video about the injury that goalie Clint Malarchuk suffered.
Not for the squeamish, so be prepared
Richard Zednik too
I am a Canadian who has played hockey all my life. You are allowed to hit a guy low so that he cartwheels over you. This is generally known as a "hip check" and is within the rules. Note that you cannot hit a guy at the knees or below the knees either with your stick or your legs (knee). This is a penalty. Depending on the severity (tripping, slew foot, knee on knee) this can result in a two minute minor penalty (tripping), or a five minute major penalty (knee on knee), or a 10 minute major penalty (intent to injure) or even fines and suspensions for deliberate intent to injure for deliberate hits to the knee.
Those Stevens hits are clean. He was a master of his craft.
They are not clean in today's era.
@Timmycoo oh damn that's why they don't do that anymore eh?
@@dl2one Media coverage on CTE? I thought that was obvious lol.
@Timmycoo cte? Nope never heard of it in all my years
@@Timmycoo Agree. If the first point of contact is the head - you are going to get suspended.
MOST of these hits... are perfectly legal in hockey. Recently the rules changed to get away from hits where you hit the opponents head before any other impact cause those are where most of the concussions in hockey come from. HOWEVER most of these hits are just clean legal no penalty big boom hits.
You sit in the front rows at your own risk. Baseball is the same way. If you get hit in the head with a baseball, it's YOUR fault for not paying attention. It's just the way it is. Also the glass, like you car windows are designed to shatter into a million (mostly harmless) pellets instead of dangerous shards. And those fans buy those seats just for this reason. They HOPE somebody gets blasted through the glass.
That's why they added nets for both sports to prevent the foul ball in baseball on the right/left sides, and especially behind the glass and to the corners and more with hockey.
You have to understand.... You are moving at like 30-35 kms an hour on skates... and an opposing force of another 25-30km speed in the opposite direction hits you body on body... It's a LOT of impact. Connor McDavid has reached speeds of 40km/h in games before. And then you meet a wall of a body going the other direction. It's why hockey is crazy for their hits. That hit onto Brad Marchand was absolutely monstrous when I first saw it in the game. Subban, (a fast skater), managed to pull off a body check by maintaining momentum and basically just hitting him with speed and it's a devastating thing to watch.
Legal hits,, Chris Pronger IS A LEGEND
I still can’t get the image of some of the gnarliest injuries I ever saw on my life playing hockey as a kid. These are hands down the toughest men on the planet. My favorite memory was losing my cool in a tournament against a team from BC, taking a major penalty and game misconduct sticking my leg out for a brutal knee on knee trip at the blue line. After the game the Canadian kid came charging up to me with a shit eating grin on his face grabbed my hand to shake it, and said, “Holy hell man, when you took me out at the knee I almost lost it on ya eh!” I try thought he was gonna slug me but then he invited me to some after party thing they were doing at their hotel 🤣 Canadians are the craziest, scariest people on the ice and the most genuinely friendly people as soon as the final horn sounds!
It's actually plexiglass. It's not just glass.
Hahaha thank you! I love hockey but I think I loved your reactions more!
they gotta bring back rock em sock em hits. hockey highlights with bad techno over them. glorious.
10:35 mark has got to be one of my all time faves. I remember I was in grade 7 at the time and the Leafs were just incredible that year. Best Maple Leafs team to date in my honest opinion. I actually met Darcy Tucker about a month ago, he's a super nice guy. Always smiling.
Those panes of glass are suppose to flex because it helps absorb impact of hits… imagine if you had bullet proof glass or something more stiff .. you would absolutely fucking kill someone. The average skate speeds are like 25-35 km an hour. Some have reached 40km an hour speed … imagine someone 200-280 pounds skating that fast and hitting you .. these guys suffer so many concussions it’s crazy ..another crazy injury these guys gets is the puck to the face .. imagine hard rubber coming at you at 100mph!!!!
In the 30s,40s, 50s and the 1960s they used chainlink fences, but they were hurting places and cutting them, they switched to plexiglass in the 1960s and 70s, and the as time went on they became less and less prone to shattering, but they will shatter if you put enough force on it, Slaps shots over 95 mph can shatter them as can a full hit by the largest players break the glass, but for the most part each rink only has to replace 4 or 5 panes a year from play(they end up replacing them every five or six years from wear and tear.
Fans used to get hit in the face with pucks from really hard shots. They remedied that but putting up safety netting behind the end boards.
The hit where the guy did a front flip is called a hip check, and they are legal as long as it's hip to hip (waist against waist) if you go low and contact the knee it's illegal and a kneeing penalty and if it's deemed intentional can result in a multiple game suspension, and hockey rinks use plexiglass, it's very flexible and strong, but they don't get replaced all the time and wear and tear can make the edges weak and cause them to shatter or Crack
It's called "safety" glass, and it's actually designed to shatter into harmless little chunks, rather than to split into large shards which can kill you.
Also, the "low" checks are called hip checks, which are completely legal, as long as you hit them above the knees.
Hockey has penalties. Some of these hits resulted in penalty minutes. Minors are 2 minutes where the player goes to the penalty box and their teem plays those minutes with one less player. There are also Double Minors which is 4 minutes and Majors which is 5 minutes. Players can also get game misconduct and be removed from the game and they can be fined by the league.
The glass is actually designed to shatter like that. The older glass would break in sheets and was actually more dangerous because it could slice right through someone. You also mentioned using a cage. Before glass, they used to use chain link fencing. There was a rink I played at as a kid back in the 90s that still had the fencing.
Hockey players are crazy period.These are big boys making the hits.They lose teeth get stitches and continue to play.
That glass breaker hit was back in 1994 during the playoffs, when the glass breaks it "cubes", its safety glass, and no you can't sue when you go to a hockey game and get hit by a puck or have the glass break on you, you accept the risk implicitly when you purchase your ticket
In my province, kids can’t use body contact until they’re 14. They go through training on how to give and take hits. Rule #1, keep your head up. They also have head to toe protective equipment on under their jerseys and pants!! Crazy how hard they get hit and don’t get hurt usually!
Scott Stevens was the best hitter ever.
If there wasn't a penalty called, then it was judged clean. I'm amazed that people are still crying about Stevens hits 30 years after the fact, but then again, that's the excuse they use for their teams losing championships.
LGD!
Just a tip--take it or leave it--over here we call it "Hockey" not ice hockey-- here that is like saying "ice figure skating" or "water Olympic Diving", or "pointy Darts"-- yes, girls here play "field hockey" and we call it that because it has not relation to real Hockey. the ice is not necessary.
Hockey teaches you the most important thing in life. "KEEP YOUR HEAD UP"!
Two men colliding at a combined 60 miles per hour or more? Yeah, it hurts.
RE: the broken glass: it's safety glass, designed to shatter into millions of pellets rather than into sharp shards. People rarely get cut by it.
Every HNL ticket has a disclaimer on it that states that fans are warned that they can be hit or injured by pucks, sticks, glass, etc and that they assume that risk, themselves.
It's a reason why I always sit in the upper deck (besides the better overall view of the game).
"Going low" is a hip check. So long as your hip makes contact with an opponent's hip or upper thigh, it's a legal check, even if the guy does cartwheel through the air. Hitting someone at the knees like that is right out.
The low hit you were questioning around 12:20 is called a hip check, the player uses their hip to hit the player instead of their sholder. It's legal in the game and has different outcomes depending on where it is. Open ice hip checks can cause a player to fly over the hitter, while hip checks on the boards normally just push the guy and cause them to lose their balence. It's hard to line up a guy like that clip because of how the hitter has to position themselves with the other player, thats why it doesn't happen all the time.
5:40 the glass is extremely strong, the problem is that 475lbs of man flying at 30 kph into it
The Scott Stevens hit was legal at the time (1995) Eric Lindros had his head looking down at the puck because it started to slide off his stick when Stevens began to step up. Even today, you don't look at the puck...KEEP YOUR HEAD UP.
True, the standards are a bit different in the last decade or two with the knowledge that professional leagues like the NHL (and NFL) have about concussions and as such are stricter with what they allow in terms of hits. They also have concussion spotters hired by the league to watch for those type of hits and they have the power to request a player leave the game to undergo concussion protocols. And yes, always keep your head up 😂
Scott Steven's hit was legal at the time. After we learned how bad concussions are long term it became not ok to target the head. It would be a penalty and possible suspension today.
What I like most about hockey as I played it for 25 years is it's five times faster than any other team sport, fighting is legal. You get a five minute penalty and usually two minutes for roughing and the game is much more physical and violent than any other sport with the exception to lacrosse. It is by far the greatest sport in the world. Don't forget to check your ego at the door when you get on the ice.
With the broken glass. Odds are they cheered, I'm not gonna lie. We love that mess lol
Glass Shattering like that is VERY rare...it is fairly shatter proof and about an inch thick. Also, spectators cannot sue for the broken glass, pucks into the crowd or other such events because the ticket reads that by continuing to sit where your ticket is, you assume all risks and responsibilities and that if you feel unsafe, let staff know and they will try and move you to a more secure seating location.
The Safety glass is made not to break and into chards (Chards are sharp), but rather in bits, which do not cut.
Those are lovely hits worth the price of admission !
Metal cage (chicken wire) instead of plexiglass is very old school. Back in my days (early 2000s) of playing junior ice hockey in Finland, only the smallest cities with the cheapest rinks would have that. It was really annoying as it makes the puck bounce completely randomly in whichever direction
They used to play with steel cages back in the really old days. They've switched the tempered glass for plexiglass now, so it doesn't shatter anymore.
''The code'' was done a few years back , NHL players are not allowed anymore to take off their own helmet before a fight.
From Montreal, the hardest cup to win is the Stanley Cup, imagine you must win 4 best of 7 games to reach the cup, so you play the same team 4 to 7 times, there is a lot of anymosety between the teams and often they get revenge the next game for a bad hit, and at the end of each series they shake hands. (when the player flips over another player, it's called a hip check)