Hi Readers,
First off, for all those who have been following, thank you. I had a quick glance at the stats and I'm sitting at 49 page views. About a handful came in with my last post on Colin Mochrie. Outside of home country, my blog traffic has reach to the United States, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, India, Netherlands, Russia and Singapore. I think the biggest contribution to all the traffic is the uniqueness of the title of each blog posting. However, if you have been regularly following out of interest, I greatly appreciate it.
As for this week, there's two major things on the agenda. First and foremost, Japan had recently been hit hard with two major natural disasters. My thoughts and prayers for all those affected. For those who want to help with the country get back on its feet, I suggest you to look at the Canadian Red Cross site Japan Earthquake/Asia-Pacific Tsunami- Canadian Red Cross to see how you can contribute financially through donations.
The second topic I wanted to talk about is the NHL"s concussion situation. Seeing that my favorite hockey team, the Montreal Canadiens were involved in a recent concussion situation, I have been following the news closely. Now I'm not to argue if the recent discipline decision was right or wrong on the Chara/Pacioretty incident. There's hundreds of blogs and columns about it and possibly millions of posts on discussion boards surround that issue. But as a long time hockey fan and a fantasy hockey team owner, I have noticed each player going down due to concussion in the past 10 years and I'm a wee bit concerned. Now, I've read the league's recent five step plan and agree, precautions need to be in place to protect all hockey players. I do however like the stance of the league wanting to have hockey players see medical personnel before being cleared to play again, I do find this a bit insulting to each team's medical staff. I see the rationale behind a non-bias medical doctor, as the league feared the possibility of teams medical staff not willing to report major concussions and bending to the pressure to give give clearance for the player to finish the game. However, as a former university student athletic trainer for both the track and field team and the men's hockey team, this is not the spirit of that profession. Each and every individual of the medical staff from the trainers to the physiotherapists to the massage therapist have one primary goal, to ensure the safety and the proper recovery of the athlete. This includes a detailed protocol for potential concussed athletes for their return to sport. Plus the education process of concussions does not end after one session, it's an ongoing educating process. As bold of a statement is, I trust that each team's medical staff is competent in determining if an athlete has the green light to return to sport. As much as I appreciate the leagues concern for their athletes, I feel they are being condescending for each team's medical staff. Anyhow, that's my personal opinion.
As for this week with a major assignment and do not have the time to search for one. Instead, breaking from tradition slightly, I wish to post a song by one of my favorite Canadian actors, Paul Gross. Gross along with David Keeley initially introduced this song in one of my favorite Canadian television series Due South. Enjoy.
Paul Gross and David Keeley - Ride Forever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTwoKd9vW30&feature=related
Greg
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