Do you seriously think a player is going to think to themselves, while lining up a player, while deflecting a shot, at top game speed, to worry about the position of their wrists so that a follow-through doesn't hit their thumbs?
You are crackers, man. Absolutely crackers. Good thing that Lithuanian pro could take tips from you though. Gonna have to take those back to the motherland.
Wow, a guy breaks his thumb on a routine play, then offers a quick tip on how to prevent it, with a query on whether there is gear in existence that can offer some protection (just in case maybe this is too much to be thinking about), and you devolve into subhuman status and start slanging racial slurs? Yea, you're a real winner. I got a proposal pal, how about you and me never chime in on another's comment, ever? I invite the mods to hold us to it. If the mods agree, then I will even proudly change my signature to:
"Banned from future communication with DangleSnipe"
So, if you say "sure," and then I see it, I won't respond, and let's bury, yea? I mean really- you really wanna be a tough guy from behind the computer screen and call out a fellow member? C'mon man. What's that? Computer tough guy. Yea, ok.
Which level of hockey are you playing? Beer league/Rec/Drop in?
I would imagine this hasn't happened or hardly happens to a pro player as they don't look to play the puck when a forward crosses the blue line. Example A) Scott Stevens. Although his hits might not be deemed legal by today's rule book, you'd be damned to see him reaching for a puck when an opponent is coming across the line.
Bottom line: Shitty luck, and wrong place, wrong time.
Beer league tourney, essentially:
http://www.pointstre...&seasonid=15007
It was not even a high speed play, and the guy was hardly flying. I gave him a bit of space as he crossed the blue line, and then when I saw him wind up, I reached to my right with my left (top) hand (right hand off the stick at my side I think), and poked the puck as his stick blade made contact with the puck. Then his shaft jammed my exposed thumb, at the point of impact of his stick blade with the puck. So, I was just playing the puck, because I knew he was in the process of shooting.
So, I am not sure the relevance of the Scott Stevens thing. I mean, it could happen anywhere in the offensive zone, and any defensive player who is close enough to reach a stick to touch the puck as he knows that the offensive player is gonna strike it on a slapshot, will do this, right? Sure, maybe I could have pulled off some other defensive maneuver, but typically, when I see a guy wind up, and I am near enough to touch the puck with my stick as he shoots, I do so, and the puck is steered wide and/or high almost every time. I recall the only time that the guy ever got the puck through, it was this guy who was reportedly formerly in the Dynamo system (Roman Lebedev). I asked the goalie if he had ever seen anything like it previously, which he said he did not (a guy rifling a shot like that, through a defender's stick blade, as if the stick blade was not even there).
Had I known about these angles and this area of vulnerability, then yea, I could have easily have had it in my mind to not over rotate at the wrist, and then my backhand or fingers would have taken the brunt of the force, which I am sure has happened hundreds of times, without any repercussion. At higher speeds, will I remember this? Probably not- thus the query about whether anyone has seen, tried or modded gloves to throw some padding in there at the tip and inside of the thumb.
Bottom line: I agree 100%, just bad luck/ wrong place/wrong time, and I am not bent or anything that I am out for a few weeks. I just wanna ensure that this is the only time that this happens, and come back protected in this area (so that I do not have to think about the position of my wrist).
