Davis Drewiske was on the ice this morning, looking surprisingly well. Drewiske had to leave practice yesterday after taking a deflected puck to the face and apparently losing a lot of blood and requiring stitches. Drewiske wasn’t scheduled to play tonight anyway, but he practiced, and his only concession to the injury was his wearing of a visor. I believe — although I haven’t officially confirmed this — that Drewiske stopped wearing a visor this season after wearing one in the past.
MURRAY: “When I see the play that happened (in practice), it was just such an easy flip of the puck, to get it in, and it does damage. He’s got some swelling, and stitches to close that thing up. … You wonder, sometimes, why we don’t all wear that visor. When you go to an opthamologist or a plastic surgeon, that’s something they can’t comprehend, playing this sport.”
I reminded Murray, though, that many players of his generation, and younger, resisted the wearing of helmets for a long time, also…
MURRAY: “I wore one my last year of junior, because it was mandatory, and that was only for three months. But, you know, the whole thing with helmets is, I coached players who never wore helmets. Rod Langway, he never got hit in the head. Then you go to the other side of the ice, where his partner was wearing a helmet, and you could hear the clicking of the stick off his helmet. So it’s a skill that’s lost now, managing your stick.”
Will the Kings give up a third period goal again to lose by one at home..it is getting predictable and sickening!
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Scaught Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 2:16 pm
@LucsoundslikeLuke, yup. They lose tonight, the season’s over. Simple as that.
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Dominick Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
@Scaught, The seasons not over till they lose Saturday also. Tonight the Sky is falling.
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Drewiske is cool. In years past he would be our 3/4 defenseman.
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Glad to hear Whiskey is ok. Now that you got the look…play/work hard and throw some checks around next time you get in the game. We all know you got it in you!
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visors suck the block vision and fog up I hated wearing it in juniors.
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Blake Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 6:18 pm
@kevin,
shoulda worn a cage
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2 words come to mind “face sheild”.
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I wonder if, because guys didn’t used to wear helmets, they actively tried to stay away from each others heads. Whereas now, they don’t think about it anymore because they have protection. If they took their helmets off now, I think someone would probably die pretty soon.
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As soon as i played one game without a visor or a cage i was hooked. it only took a broken nose and a chipped tooth to convince me of putting my cage back on. I was lucky though…a guy on my team took a puck to the mouth and lost a bunch of teeth. no thanks.
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Dominick Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
@Sebastian, When I played pick up I never wore a facesheild. When I played more organized hockey I had to wear one, but I hated it. I never got payed to play though. No excuse to not get used to a visor. I know this is an outdated subject, but It should be mandatory in the NHL.
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holly Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
@Dominick, The thing I find somewhat humorous is that the majority of these guys should be used to a visor by now. Yes, there are players who have never played with a visor at any point in their career, but many (though not all) young players coming in have likely played with a visor at one point or another be it in juniors, the ahl or in international play (where I believe visors are mandatory for any player born after some point in the late seventies). Heck, there’s a renewed push for NCAA to switch to mandatory visors instead of full cages.
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Dominick Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
@holly, Pee Wee’s cages were mandetory. Can’t see why they can’t get used to visors. Most players have spent more time wearing some kind of protection than not.
I don’t understand Murry. First he says the kings will be better when poni and Willie get back. Now they loose because of poni or is it the lines. Pride before destruction before the fall, perhaps
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fsd1 Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 2:59 pm
@viciar to the king, Murray doesn’t skate on game nights, it is 100% up to the players to do the job.
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BrokeKingsFan Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 3:32 pm
@fsd1, from all your comments its obvious you are a TM fan, which is alright and i agree with you that’s its the players job to get it done on the ice. I will say though that alot of what TM does makes no sense, at least to me, and seemingly to alot of other fans as well. It is beyond me why a coach would scratch Richardson and then Poni in lieu of Westgarth! that has got to be the most bone headed thing ever and i hope the Kings and us fans dont have to lose to many games till TM figures out Westgarth should not be in our lineup regardless of how everyone is playing! the never ending revolving door on line changes is rediculous as well. IMO TM has as much to do with our recent slide as any player he puts on the ice. The guy cant motivate squat!!!
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fsd1 Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
@BrokeKingsFan, I would bet money that you and I and everyone else doesn’t know and really has no right to know why Richardson was benched. And I disagree about Westgarth or (enforcer), the game still needs one and that is his role. Poni had a horrible game and again I reiterate, no one knows why Richie was sat, but I do know that you will notice him on the ice tonight, I’m positive. You can’t as a coach treat every player the same way, they all have different personalities and respond to stimulis in different ways. I do like TM. I don’t like players who don’t bring 100% everynight. Again, the players are totally responsible for this slide, if the system worked last year and it worked at the beginning of the year than is it really the “system” or the “players”?
My team played a team once who had a guy who could not keep his stick on the ice. He would swing around with the blade in the air and nail anyone within proximity either in the helmet or the cage. Caught me twice in the face; thank goodness my helmet has a cage.
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Dominick Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 5:09 pm
@alma, I played in a beer league where an opposing player did the same thing. When no one was watching I speared him in the nutts. He’s lucky he was wearing a cup.
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hockey junkie Reply:
January 13th, 2011 at 5:05 pm
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Rod Langway, he never got hit in the head. How would anyone know with the mullet he had. The puck would go into his hair in the second period and not come out until the third.
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