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One day, visors will be mandatory for all NHL players. Honestly, any player right now that still won't wear a visor is absolutely fucking retarded, and I mean that in the meanest sense of the phrase. This isn't to say that a visor would protect every player from every situation that could arises in the fast-paced, hard-hitting sport of ice hockey. But it would definitely cut down the severity of an injury like Marc Staal suffered tonight in a game vs. the Flyers. Excuses like, "I can't see as well with a visor" and "It cuts down on my vision" are just asinine. Every single professional hockey player in the league has played at least half of their career with either a full metal cage, or a full impact-resistant clear plastic cage. Every single professional hockey player in the NHL has also been forced to wear a visor as they worked their way up through the minor league system.
There simply is no excuse anymore to not have at least a quarter-shield attached to your helmet when playing at the top levels where sticks and elbows fly at brutal speeds, and worse, a frozen puck often travels in the 90mph+ range.
Ask Bryan Berard, Jeremy Roenick, and Chris Pronger about the need for a shield of some kind.
I played pick-up hockey at my local rink for about four months with just a quarter-shield before I finally realized how stupid I was and went to a full metal cage. It took me all of about 90 seconds to get used to it...sort of like looking through a chain-link fence or a screen door. Once you get your skates churning, your eyes completely ignore the cage.
After a couple of incidents of sticks and pucks and even a skate colliding with my full cage, there's no way I would ever go back to not having full face protection. I do not want to be blind or scarred.
I never want any player on any team, whether I hate him or his team or not (and trust me, I absolutely hate the Rangers), to ever suffer an injury like this again.
