Because they are on skates. Their feet aren’t planted. It would be uncommon to tear ligaments in your knee when your foot will just slide when contacted.

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Posted by ZenFNmaster

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Posted on 3/18/26 at 6:22 am to SulphursFinest

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Because they are on skates. Their feet aren’t planted. It would be uncommon to tear ligaments in your knee when your foot will just slide when contacted.

While certainly not as prevalent as in the NBA, knee injuries are probably the around the third most common injuries in the NHL behind concussions and tooth loss.
Sloppy ice in warm weather locations cause cause ruts that catch a skate, particularly when transitioning from skating forwards to backwards.
The skate stays pointing one way while the body keeps moving resulting in nuking of the knee, or ankle as well as Tib/Fib breaks and spiral fractures.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 3/18/26 at 6:43 am to ZenFNmaster

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Right there in the title it asks why the phenomenon of load management doesn’t exist in the NHL.
Typical of a post by SFP, when unable to successfully argue the topic at hand, he resorts to juvenile debate tactics like moving the goalposts and name calling.

Did you reply to the wrong post?

This is the meat of my post

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Nobody is saying hockey players aren't tough or aren't athletic in their own way. It's just not the type of athleticism that's common referred to, at least in American sports, which is explosive movements. That explosiveness, especially at those heights, answer the question in OP specifically. Having to reference completely irrelevant stuff to prop up hockey players does nothing to advance the discussion.

If we had a combine of sprints, vertical leaps, long jumps, and other tests of explosiveness and COD, the NBA would be freak of freaks doing what they do at their height.

I corrected you from moving the goalposts and then gave a detailed argument and even gave tactile examples for people who aren't abstract thinkers.

Do you think if we set up a combine of sorts that tested the general concept of athleticism that hockey players would beat NBA players?

Look at these vertical leap records

The highest ever is a nudge under 29"

Or there is the infamous Kris Letang workout with Terrell Owens (who was 44 and 12 years older)

Hockey just doesn't have the same sort of explosive movements that create the same injury concerns compared to sports that rely on explosive movements. Then you add in the skating part, the substitutions, etc. and the answer to the OP is pretty crystal clear.