Sports safety and the real hazards of youth hockey

An article in the Vital Signs section of The New York Times reports on a UB study on injuries among young hockey players that found most injuries are caused when players collide with the boards or, by accident, with one another, and not by body checks. The article quotes John Leddy, associate clinical professor of orthopaedics and associate director of UB's Sports Medicine Institute, who said "Some of them, they keep their heads down and they're looking at the puck. But then they can get hit. Or they run into other players. Or they run into the goal posts." Go to article.