Disturbing study on NHL enforcers emerges and will likely upset current players!
Wow. This is scary.
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If the National Hockey League persists on allowing fighting in the game, it can expect to see its enforcers die ten years younger than their teammates, according to a new study by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). This is worrying conclusion that was reached by researchers at Columbia University in New York, after analyzing data on more than 6,000 players who played in the NHL between the fall of 1969 and the spring of 2022.
On Wednesday, the result of the study emerges, proving that enforcers die on average ten years younger than comparable teammates who were drafted at the same rank, having the same height, the same weight and playing in the same position as them.
It also demonstrates that those players die more frequently from suicide, drug overdoses and neurodegenerative disease.
The study inadvertently also pointed to another disturbing detail, which is that while fighters die on average at the age of 47.5, it was compared to 57.7 years for their peers and the punished die on average at the age of 45.2 years, compared to 55.2 years for their comparisons. It is shocking to see that professional athletes died on average in their mid-50s
This could lead to another study on why athletes are dying at such a young age.
When it comes to the whole fighting debate, you have to wonder first and foremost if this study will be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
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