The problem with "the sacrifice play"
With hockey comes a lot of sacrifice playing. Actually with ALL sports comes sacrifice playing. & tumblr has finally begun some quality discourse on it. The thought process bellow started with this post: i know we all worship players who continue to play through injuries but there are so many players who, for example, have played through mild concussions and then ended up making them a lot worse there’s a line between toughness and stupidity and i don’t think enough sports fans realize that It’s liteweight & it only dances on the surface of the issue, but it got a lot of face time. & it used the term “worship” which was the perfect word to describe what happens irl & on the interwebs. Next came the POV of a sportstrainer & a person that I personally follow on tumblr This take focuses a lot more of the medical sides of things & gives detailed examples of known cases of playing through injuries. She give...