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[Set2Stun]

You know what? I bet there aren't as many soft tissue injuries, blown ACLs, torn Achilles, detached hamstrings, and the like playing on skates as opposed to cleats on the ground. You're kind of unanchored being on ice, right?

I think that's a keen observation. There are indeed ACL injuries here and there, hamstring tears, groin muscle pulls, but these are typically a result of hyperextension from flukey plays, usually involving falls and/or an impact with the boards. Not many soft tissue injuries, no. Shoulder injuries I'm sure are more common in hockey as that's how they throw and receive hits, rather than the face to face impacts like you see in gridiron.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I've never been to the west coast.

My niece who is traveling with me now is a travel nurse and she just completed a contract in Seattle but she loved it there so much she is going back.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I think that's a keen observation. There are indeed ACL injuries here and there, hamstring tears, groin muscle pulls, but these are typically a result of hyperextension from flukey plays, usually involving falls and/or an impact with the boards. Not many soft tissue injuries, no. Shoulder injuries I'm sure are more common in hockey as that's how they throw and receive hits, rather than the face to face impacts like you see in gridiron.

Yeah. So many of those injuries in the NFL are non-contact. Just running in a straight line and every ligament in your knee explodes. 300 lb dudes bench pressing a million pounds. Sneeze the wrong way, and snap! You get your bell rung in hockey, but there's very little surface area between skate blade and ice. Probably better to vacate your feet entirely than to be firmly anchored to the ground.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I am cautiously optomistic that we've seen our last frost until fall.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I am cautiously optomistic that we've seen our last frost until fall.

The summer solstice is like a week and a half away, if that's any comfort.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

The summer solstice is like a week and a half away, if that's any comfort.

In Wyoming, that's great for day length but iffy for temperature. I've seen it snow here every month except July, and I have even had occasion to wear a coat in July.

 

[Mikal672025]

Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor?

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Marilyn Monroe! She was a civil rights activist.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

This week is going so slow it feels like Thursday next week.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I had a chicken wrap from Tim Horton's yesterday here in Quebec and it was terrible.

I don't know what they did with the chicken (it was kind of ground-up) but at home we get lovely pieces of chicken tenders on it.

 

[Rigor Mortis]

You shoulda stuck to Wieners.

 

[Louanne Learning]

I did have a hot dog yesterday, too!

 

[Rigor Mortis]

I did have a hot dog yesterday, too!

Wieners!! Not hotdogs!!

(apparently, they're different)

 

[Louanne Learning]

We'll we've arrived to PEI. The Confederation Bridge is something else! 13 km (8 miles) long. As you are approaching, you can see the island from end to end.

 

[CatrionaGrace]

From sea to shining sea?

 

[Louanne Learning]

From sea to shining sea?

and Northumberland Strait

 

[Rigor Mortis]

We'll we've arrived to PEI. The Confederation Bridge is something else! 13 km (8 miles) long. As you are approaching, you can see the island from end to end.

Have a blast!

 

[CatrionaGrace]

BOOM.