Concussed

For all of the talk about concussions in sports, there seems to have been an alarming number of them lately in both football and hockey.  Being that this blog is generally about hockey, the one thing that sticks out about the concussion epidemic that has hit of late is that it's the big name players that have dominated the headlines.  It's not just Sidney Crosby, either; it's Chris Pronger and Claude Giroux (both are pictured here), it's Jeff Skinner, it's Kris Letang, and until recently, it was Ryan Miller.  Concussions aren't limited to the stars, either, as New York Islander and ex-Portland Winterhawk Nino Niederreiter has been sidelined with a concussion.  Now, the NHL has done what they can to limit the number of these concussions with stricter enforcement of the rules on hits to the head, but one has to wonder if there has to be something that has to be done that could end up compromising the overall ga