Originally Posted by
wabbit
lol trust me, everyone knows i don't play hockey...at least hockey players don't get road rash as they're mostly covered up...they get bloody face injuries...like one poor shmuck on the Habs these days...puck in the face and he looks like frankenstein! ugh! but they at least tend to keep most of their skin and don't have to walk around all skinned like a rabbit...ew.
Field hockey players can get grass burn from the synthetic surfaces they use these days and if they aren't watered enough.
Way back in the day when I played field hockey (well before synthetic turf was an option), I was transferred in my job to the West Coast of Tasmania where the rainfall was so high that growing and maintaining grass pitches for sports was very difficult -- they usually ended up as one big bog, a cesspool of infection.
This was mining country, so the people at Queenstown got over the problem for both Australian football and hockey by building pitches out of gravel, a fine granite-based gravel. The footballers were tough, and gravel rash after a match was not unusual in the pubs around the town.
The more genteel sport of hockey didn't result in nearly so much gravel rash, although there were regular cases throughout each season. On the other hand, the wooden sticks we used ground down rapidly...