It seems impossible to me. Players are diving in front of 30-40+ pucks on net for 82 + games a year. How do they avoid getting hit in the face/jaw like Crosby/Mark Fraser were hit recently? Do the visors help at all? Is there a method they have?
I’m amazed that they don’t suffer roughly 40-50 broken jaws per career.
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Visors are a big help, and some players wear visors big enough that they cover the majority of their face (See, P.K. Subban). In addition hockey is a fast paced game, so you’re always supposed to keep your head up. Players in front of the net know they have to watch the puck at all times, and if it comes near them either try to deflect it or get out of the way. Sometimes they get out just by pure luck. You can also look at players like Sidney Crosby now, who now wears a partial cage on his face to cover his jaw, since his recent injury.
The chance you actually get hit in the face with the puck is not that high. I mean you always know of the freak chance of deflection like Crosby’s case, but even that you don’t count on. It just doesn’t happen as often as people think.
they just don’t dive with the head into the shooting lane but with the hip or the legs. crosby’s hit was bad luck as the puck was deflected. i didn’t watch fraser’s hit by puck yet.
It’s easy to avoid those situations, but if a puck is deflected and hits you in the face, you cant really do anything