The Toronto Star has an interesting Tale of Two Concussions, telling a story most hockey moms and many hockey dads worry about.
I suppose in retort, Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons, a longtime minor hockey volunteer, offers a retort. (Scroll to the end of Simmons' column.)
We got off easy with head injuries, but not so several of my son's teammates over the years, including one who was drilled into the boards by a boy of much larger body size during their first year of bodychecking and another, in midget, the pinnacle of minor hockey, who not once, not twice, but three times came back too early only to see his entire city and high school seasons fizzle.
I suppose in retort, Toronto Sun columnist Steve Simmons, a longtime minor hockey volunteer, offers a retort. (Scroll to the end of Simmons' column.)
We got off easy with head injuries, but not so several of my son's teammates over the years, including one who was drilled into the boards by a boy of much larger body size during their first year of bodychecking and another, in midget, the pinnacle of minor hockey, who not once, not twice, but three times came back too early only to see his entire city and high school seasons fizzle.
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