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Originally Posted by 2702
While I suppose it is better than nothing, hockey helmets and bike helmets fulfill two completely different roles. A hockey helmet is mostly protection against fast flying rubber pucks, errant sticks, and falling down at low speeds, and is built to do so over the course of years. It is essentially no different than a glorified hard hat. A bike helmet dissipates the energy of a head impact at high speed one time, and is then junked.
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