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Quote by Emmett Quinn
It was disgraceful. If that kind of thing is allowed to continue, it means that a player simply takes his life in his hands when he goes on the ice.
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The speaker calls the situation disgraceful and warns that allowing it to continue would make going onto the ice dangerously unsafe. “Takes his life in his hands” is a forceful way of saying that a player could face serious danger simply by playing. The quote does not specify what “that kind of thing” refers to.
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- Winchester District Memorial Hospital Foundation / Dundas County Archives, “This Montreal-Ottawa hatred is nothing new”
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