from Ron Kantowski of the Las Vegas Review-Journal,

According to the sports arrest database Arrest Nation, the NHL went the entire 2016-17 season without having one of its players, coaches or Zamboni drivers running afoul of the law. This might seem amazing, considering that by its nature hockey is a violent game, and you would think guys would have trouble drawing the line after the last high-sticking penalty is served....

Hockey players simply don’t get into trouble as often as their contemporaries in other sports.

Those with goatees and furrowed brows who smoke pipes and charge $125 for an hour of psychoanalysis probably could explain it a lot better than I could. I’m sure there are socioeconomic and myriad other factors that weigh into it.

Additional observation: While NFL players have a reputation for breaking the law more frequently than Jesse James and Motley Crue combined, a 2015 study revealed the arrest rates for men of the same general age group in society was nearly twice as high as those of NFL players from 2000 to 2013.

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