David Backes and the Boston Bruins should be ashamed of themselves Globe_Sports
There is a disgraceful situation unfolding with the Boston Bruins in which the entire management group, from owner Jeremy Jacobs to president Cam Neely to general manager Don Sweeney to head coach Bruce Cassidy, should be ashamed of themselves.
“We really appreciate that as a staff, and the players do, too,” Cassidy said. “That he’s putting himself in harm’s way for the good of the team, and that’s leadership.” By the time Bettman was named commissioner in 1993, the bench-clearing brawls that marked the NHL in the 1970s through the 1980s were scarce, although fights were still common. Each team had a couple of enforcers, who by this time were taking boxing and martial-arts lessons and bulking up, which made the fights a lot more dangerous.
Backes acknowledged his concussion history this week but had something astonishing to add: “You look at the stats, and you’re not as prone to concussions actually fighting as you are from whiplash, side hits, shoulders to the face or elbows to the face.”
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