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The league has long wanted to make visors mandatory but it's a collectively bargained issue so it needs the union's blessing.

LOS ANGELES (CP) -- Players on the Los Angeles Kings are opposed to the mandatory wearing of visors.

The NHL Players' Association is currently holding an online survey of its players regarding the use of visors but the Kings wasted no time in making their feelings known, taking an informal survey in their dressing room even though the union is actually not asking players to formally vote on it.

The Kings unanimously voted against mandatory visors.

"I think it should be an option, but not mandatory," star winger Pavol Demitra, who started wearing a visor after a potentially career-ending eye injury in 2000, told the Los Angeles Daily News. "A lot of guys hate them. I used to hate them. I almost lost my eye so I started wearing one, but I would still feel more comfortable without it."

The league has long wanted to make visors mandatory but it's a collectively bargained issue so it needs the union's blessing. The NHLPA has repeatedly asked its players how it felt about the issue, and the overwhelmingly response has always been that they want the right to make their own individual choice.

"If I was a GM and I was paying a guy a lot of money, I'd definitely want to make it mandatory," said Kings centre Craig Conroy, who does not wear one. "But as a player, I don't think anyone should be forced to wear one."

Even before the online survey, the NHLPA asked all 30 player reps during training camp to talk to their teammates about visors. The union will continue gather feedback from its players on the issue.

from: http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/artic...13_171926_5860

thot to share this with everyone

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nhldave

I'm just wondering, is there any difference between hockey players against visors and those folks who, despite the overwhelming evidence of catastrophic disease associated with it, still smoke?

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dunno :baghead:

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TimmyTabasco

Why not sit back, and have a cup of tea. While drinking the tea, think of something insightful to add.

Then finish the tea, and answer dave's question with that insightful answer

:coffee: :0pouce:

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i do not know,but the visor will cut down on the eye injuries but it is there choice,whut can we do

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nhldave

Other than express an opinion, not much, but the owners and players should hear it from the fans anyway. We pay the freight so that gives us a say.

BTW did you get the Google tool bar yet?

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no :haha: :haha:

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