Lawsuits & Legal Matters

pitt personnel are in high demand. looking at the backside for concussion symptoms.

 

The NHL and NHL Players' Association have amended the spotter program in the NHL Concussion Evaluation and Management Protocol to guarantee the inclusion of concussion spotters employed and trained by the League at every game in an attempt to further strengthen the program.

"The spotter program is not new, it has been in existence as part of our Concussion Protocol for some time now; the thing that is changing is how we are allowing clubs to deal with the responsibility," NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said. "By introducing League-employed-and-trained spotters, we are simply providing our clubs with another alternative to adequately and properly execute the spotter responsibility."

As has been the case under the protocol, each team maintains the right to designate its own concussion spotter for each game. In such cases, the team's concussion spotter will be considered the on-duty spotter for that game. However, the NHL has designated a network of people, two at each arena, to serve as League-designated spotters.

A team can elect to have the League-designated spotter serve as the on-duty spotter for any game. To do so, the supervisor of the NHL off-ice officials in the arena must be notified at least one hour prior to the game.

Otherwise, the League-designated spotter at that game will log incidents of players exhibiting one or more visible signs of a concussion, regardless of whether the player receives medical attention of any kind. The information logged by the League's concussion spotters, regardless of whether they are on team duty for a game, must be sent back to the NHL by the first of each month.

The spotters in the League-designated network, who receive training from the League in how to identify signs of a concussion, were chosen from a list of NHL off-ice officials at each arena.

There will be one League-designated spotter at each game, and that spotter will not serve as an official in any other capacity for that game.

"Most clubs so far have indicated a preference to continue with a club-spotter approach, but certainly there will be situations where a club will opt to utilize the League spotter," Daly said. "All of the designations must be made before each game so there is no confusion as to who will be performing the active-spotter duties in a particular game."

Daly said the role of the spotter is to identify and flag incidents that have led to players on the ice demonstrating visible signs of a concussion.

The spotter, who is expected to sit in the press box, has a two-way radio in order to communicate what he or she has seen with the training staff on the bench to properly notify a team of a player demonstrating possible signs of a concussion.

Daly said the responsibilities of diagnosing concussions or medically determining if a player can return to play belong to the medical professionals employed by the team in question.

"Depending on the nature of what is reported to him, the trainer has the next call on whether the player needs to be removed for evaluation," Daly said.

The process of logging visible signs of concussions and relaying that information back to the NHL has been put into place for this season to help the League understand what is being observed in a game and what is being flagged, Daly said.

"From that information, determinations can be made as to how the spotter program is functioning and whether it is doing what we designed it to do," Daly said.

(NHL.com)

 

Not quit sure what the medical staff that could be on the bench are doing. It seems their eyes would be better trained than a man in the press box.

 

I think Jack Edwards should start an Official NHL Concussion Spotter Training Center.

 

GET UP!!!!!

 

Defenceman Slava Voynov says he will return home to Russia, leaving the Los Angeles Kings in the wake of his legal troubles on domestic violence charges.

Voynov announced his intention to self-deport Wednesday in a statement through his agent, Rolland Hedges.

Voynov pleaded no contest in July to a misdemeanour charge of domestic violence against his wife, Marta Varlamova.

The two-time Stanley Cup champion spent two months in jail before his release Sept. 3, when he was taken into custody by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In a statement, Voynov apologized to "those in and around the game of hockey who have been affected by my situation."

He has been suspended by the NHL since his arrest in late October 2014. The Kings also suspended him this summer.

? The Canadian Press, 2015

 

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/front...-nfl-players-test-positive-for-brain-disease/

It's funny Gary and the lawyers have chosen the head-in-the-sand approach.

 

Every time I go to the brain bank... they seem to be closed.

 

ya, suicide seemed likely when they said cause of death was being kept private for now.

repeatedly punching people in the head is apparently a harmful thing. what a surprise.

 

That's why I'm so surprised the league has taken "uh-uh-no way" approach to the lawsuit after acting like it was a problem with public comments and rule changes a few years ago.

 

Bunch of dinosaur dipshits. I was a big Wilson fan, the last 18 to 30 months are starting to change my opinion completely.

They have no idea if Silverberg was seriously injured or not. The top people in the field don't even know if more effects/symptoms will or will not be felt later. How many years of this stuff before gms, coaches, and the league figures this part out? Say you're glad he's cleared to play or something you big dummy.

Maybe Gary is just sticking with the recently rediscovered shoulder-shrug approach. Raffi said the same thing, more or less, in his statement. The PA isn't going to court though, on this topic anyway.

 

here's an idea, fucktard. this is what u should have said:

on behalf of the san jose sharks organization, i'd like to apologize to jakob silfverberg, the entire league, and hockey fans everywhere. it was an inexcusable act by this organization to sign this lowlife scumbag to a contract, knowing his long history of cheap shots to opposing players' heads.

there is no place in this or any other league for assholes like raffi torres, and we deserve all of your contempt for enabling him to continue to do the shit he does.

 

Maybe its possible they do know it has serious possible long term effects and want that part to remain hidden from general view. Could be a way to hedge off any attempts of players and their union filing for contempt against the NHL for all the known risk involved in the rougher side of the game. The rough stuff being a real bread winner in the sport.

I think any open door or just a crack in the door is going to be all thats needed to possibly open the flood gates to a stream of never ending law-suits.

I dont know, but everyone should really know the effects of punishing the brain with trauma, but if that area is examined... would we still have a game?
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I wanted to add... I know personally from just watching sport, let alone playing it, that this is a violent thing and heavily involves risk.

 

I like what Lulz wrote better. If i had known he was posting that i may not have just wasted 5 minutes of precious lifetime.

 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/hockey-helmet-concussions-1.3375030

Better 4 or 5 years late than never.
As late as last year you still had HS level officials saying that helmets protected against concussions even though the medical community could not validate the claim.

I wonder how many millions of helmets were sold over the last few years of them knowingly pushing a claim that doctors would never stake their professional reputation on.

Baby steps

 

http://www.thestar.com/sports/hocke...n_what_really_killed_nhls_bill_masterton.html

 

They all had me fooled into thinking helmets prevented concussions. That all change when I became educated in the science of concussion, which is a subject i think a lot are still ignorant of.

Sooner or later, its going to have to be deemed as part of the game unless the game is completely changed.

 

Football yes, hockey no, in my opinion.

Hitting isn't a vital part of hockey and most of it can be eliminated with minor rule changes and larger ice surfaces without changing the game all that much. Hitting, like fighting, has only been prominent for a few decades and it has been going away to an extent anyway.

All they have to do is get rid of the players that don't play much hockey and most of the problem fixes itself...but hockey people have are pretty much morons because they have a hugely introverted perspective of their sport.

 

I dont know, Bob. I've seen a lot of old hockey footage and the hitting and fighting, the Donniebrooks, have been there all along.

If fighting were eliminated and the illegal checking, i see concussions declining but still remaining a factor.

If you have a NHL full of the worlds elite and skilled, fast players and make the ice surface larger, dont you just increase the velocity of collisions and increase the impact aspect ratio which would only sustain concussions.

There just might come a day where players in the NHL and other leagues have to sign off on concussions and not consider the league liable.

Caught between a rock and a hard place , i guess.