High School Hockey - Dealing with injuries

talk to us a little bit about injuries how do you deal with them how do you deal with the the new focus on concussions and what do you do when when players are down and out for a number of games up until this year really hasn't been something that we had a big problem with uh... unfortunately for whatever reason this year it seems like every game somebody new has gone down or you know uh like you said the concussions we've had I believe four uh... and they're you know very uh... strict about what you can do and what you can't do when you have the concussion so basically yeah... it's you know follow the the rules of the MIAA follow what the doctors are telling uh... us about the kids uh you know and just hopefully try and get them back to health so that they can come back but I mean obviously the most important thing is is the student's health and you know they have a life after high school you know this is not the end of the world you know obviously we've we lost a great player this year for the whole season uh our captain eric legere you know i feel bad for the whole team but i feel mostly bad for him because he's a senior and and just knowing what it must be like for him to have to sit and watch and uh know knowing what a big part of our team he was you were playing in a tournament when he got hurt right right at the beginning as I recall right you immediately call a time out what do you say to the kids because whatever you said seemed to work well i believe in that game we were actually struggling a little bit as far as how we were playing in addition to the injury right uh... so you know i think we were basically telling the kids look you know uh... eric's eric's out of the game he's not going to help us tonight so we need people to step up and uh... you know show some leadership and uh... pick up the slack because you know that's why it's a team you know i mean we've got we've got several kids who you might at our level call stars but you know uh you need everybody to win and i think that's why we've been successful we've had some stars every year but we also have some great role players who know what their jobs are and and i think they know when they need to pick up their game and and of course when you lose somebody like uh... the caliber of eric um... you know it's not just going to be one guy that's going to do it you need every guy on the bench every kid who steps on the ice to uh... try and perform a little bit better this excerpt is brought to you by the massachusetts school of law