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NHL puts players in crosshairs with farcical injury policy

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Ryan McDonagh lies on the ice after a brutal headshot from Leo Komarov.

If the players of the NHL can’t get out of their own way for the sake of personal safety, then it’s unlikely that something like what’s about to be proposed would ever fly.

But it has become a farce trying to decipher injuries, the transparency of which varies from team to team depending on the ideology of the front office as handed down to the public relations staff. We have “upper-body” and “lower-body” injuries, and often, that’s it.