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When Mark Messier was in the infancy of his Hall of Fame career, most of his peers and opponents didn't wear helmets.
"That changed in the early 70s," he recalled. "I remember going to an Oil King [Junior A] game and it was mandatory they all wear helmets. They were trying out their new helmets by lining up and hitting their heads against the boards to see if it would work."
What Messier has seen in the ensuing three decades of his hockey life isn't just a change in equipment; it's a change in philosophy among players and coaches when it comes to hitting and dangerous plays. He implicitly understands that hockey, at all levels, is a physical game; but Messier is an advocate for teaching young players proper body position, how to give and take clean hits, and respect for opponents -- bringing that education through the ranks.
At the core of his philosophy: Preventing what he believes is an epidemic in hockey when it comes to concussions.
"When helmets were first designed, they were designed to stop catastrophic injuries -- meaning death in our sport," he said. "As we've progressed in our sport through the years, we've come upon an epidemic we didn't see coming many years back, which is the concussion problem. Our [current] helmets aren't designed to stop concussions."
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Mark Messier is one of the most decorated hockey players of all-time and was lauded for his bombastic leadership during his tenures with the Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers. As it turns out, Messier had a transcendent experience when he was a teenager that helped shape his career in a way that some may have never anticipated.
Messier went on the That’s Hockey Talk podcast with Michael Rupp recently and detailed how he drank mushroom tea — which contained psilocybin, the active component in "magic mushrooms" — when he was 19 on vacation in Barbados.
“We filled our shirts up and brought [the mushrooms] home and made this big pot of tea,” Messier said. “Mashed it all up and it got really thick and dark, and we all poured ourselves a cup of coffee — basically, it was a tea, a thousand times more than we needed.
“I did have that experience of psychedelic effects after mushrooms. This was 1980. Now we know it has health benefits for addictions.”
Psilocybin has been used to treat addictions and post-traumatic stress disorder among other ailments and is no longer viewed as merely a recreational experience. This wasn’t a common view in 1980 when Messier was still emerging as a burgeoning star for the Oilers.
Messier has been a long-time advocate of psilocybin mu
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Rory Cormac. How to Notice a Coup: and Sticky stuff Other Lessons from interpretation World endlessly Secret Statecraft. London: Ocean Books, 2022. ISBN 978-1838955618; paper, 2023, 978-1838955649.
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