Sentence examples for mandatory visor use from inspiring English sources

N.H.L. officials have urged mandatory visor use for years, said Bill Daly, the deputy commissioner.

For a true advocate of mandatory visor use in the N.H.L., talk to a hockey player who lost an eye playing the game.

"The mandatory visor rule and the rule prohibiting the removal of helmets during fights were two such rules that were implemented just this past summer.

"We intend to monitor closely the experience with the A.H.L.'s mandatory policy this year," he said in an e-mail message, "and we remain hopeful that we will have our own mandatory visor rule in the not-too-distant future".

Bill Daly, the N.H.L. deputy commissioner, reiterated Wednesday morning the N.H.L.'s position that visor use ought to be made mandatory for the league's players.

The steady rise in visor use has been spurred periodically by gruesome injuries.

Is it worth it?" Visor use moved front and center as an issue when Rangers defenseman Marc Staal, who was not wearing a visor, was struck just above the right eye by a shot on March 5.

"The players support visor use being a matter of individual choice," Mathieu Schneider, special assistant to the executive director of the players union, said Wednesday in a statement.

"As you know, it has been the consistent position of the Players Associationn that they are opposed to mandating visor use, that it should be a matter of 'player choice,' and that increased visor use by players should be achieved through continued education and sensitization to the dangers associated with non-use.

Schneider, who played his entire 22-year career without a visor, said he is in favor of mandatory visors.

The last vote held on that subject took place in 2009 and, according to reports, as little as 30 percent of the players were in favor of mandatory visors.