Increase in Hockey Violence – Is hockey becoming a blood-sport?

There has been and continues to be a steady increase in the violence in the game of hockey. Hockey is, of course a physical sport. However, increasingly it is becoming a blood-sport. The growing lack of respect that players have for each other and each other’s lives is alarming. When fans watch a hockey game they do not want to see a player’s head slammed so hard into the boards or glass that his skull is fractured. Fans don’t want to continue to witness the senseless inflicting of brain trauma that head shots cause. Fans don’t want to see what we saw happen just last night, Sunday January 17, 2010 in a game in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The hit on – the dirty, violent, and intentional elbow viciously delivered to the head of Mikael Tam of the Quebec Remparts who crashed to the ice convulsing and who actually did stop breathing for 30 seconds