NHL Player Toughness Compared With NBA & MLB
Boomer & Gio
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🗓️ 23 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | the Jack Hughes Overtime Gold, the gold winning gold. |
| 0:04.5 | What it would a... |
| 0:05.1 | Golden goal. |
| 0:05.7 | Golden goal that, yeah, that Kenny Albert described. |
| 0:09.4 | And it was an amazing moment for all of us who were watching. |
| 0:12.1 | I think we were all collectively together as one for at least for about what? |
| 0:18.8 | Three or four hours. |
| 0:19.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:20.3 | And then everybody started yelling at each other again yes um you |
| 0:23.1 | know i i'm not in any way defending the NBA player but one thing that needs to be discussed in this |
| 0:29.1 | so anytime that someone in the NHL does what jack hughes does we take a stick to the mouth and |
| 0:34.1 | they're spitting after half of their teeth and then they go and finish a game and score a game winning goal. |
| 0:38.4 | You know, people will compare that and it's generally compared to NBA players. |
| 0:42.7 | They'll be like, ah, the flopping, the flopping of this or the that or the injury. like, I mean, you see some of these guys who, like, you know, whether it's, it's Anthony Davis or whomever, the, you know, injuries and they're out all the time and, you know, how are they not fighting through these injuries and the load management? |
| 0:58.7 | And which is true, but the baseball players need to be brought into this discussion as well. |
| 1:04.7 | They really do. They never get criticized the way that the NBA players do when it comes to toughness. |
| 1:10.7 | I mean, how many times we see this every single year? What do you think would happen if Kodi-Singer got two teeth knocked out of his face? He'd retire! Well, they bring in a therapist. I mean, my God. I mean, you think about the freaking soft tissue injuries, and this guy's got this, and this guy's got that and and steyans got two elbows and i mean |
| 1:29.3 | jesus christ and by the way all the nchl players that did participate in the Olympics i guarantee you |
| 1:34.4 | all have something yeah i mean blocking shots you know taking you know hits i mean tom |
| 1:40.1 | wilson almost uh you know took uh dylan larkin's head off. Yeah, yeah. |
| 1:44.4 | I think Dylan saw him right at the end and just kind of got out of the way a little bit. And so Wilson fell, but he got hit pretty hard, Dylan Larkin. Yeah, so that's just nobody is, I mean, the NFL players are very, very tough. We know that. The NHL players are tough. But I mean, I feel like the baseball players need to be |
| 2:01.0 | in this conversation more when it comes to the softness because I've never seen anything like it. I mean, the game of hockey, you got to skate, you got to stick in your hand, you got somebody coming down your throat, you got to be able to pass a puck, chip a puck, you know, make a shot, make a block, you know, I mean, there's so many different things that you have to do in the game of hockey. |
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