"It's something I've had to wear before and I wouldn't wear it again, if it's up to me," Walker said. "It's something I'm not comfortable with. It's a personal thing."
Walker believes the visor actually would do little to protect his eyes against a stick, citing teammate Matt Read - who does wear a visor and still was cut on his face as a result of a high-stick on Monday against Toronto.
"The stick can get underneath your visor," Walker explained. "It's coming straight up, it's not coming up horizontally. It's not hard to come up under the visor and get stuck and hit you two or three times coming out instead of just once."
If and when Pronger is ready to return, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren said he will do so with a visor - both because he was scared after Monday's incident and because the Flyers' eye doctor "wouldn't clear him to play without one."
Holmgren said he would not make it mandatory that the entire team wears one - and under the NHL's collective bargaining agreement, it's not a battle he would win with the NHLPA.
Pronger, 37, was the only player on the 2010 gold medal-winning Canadian Olympic team to not wear a visor. It was a tournament mandate, as it is in Europe, for players who are born after Dec. 31, 1974. The same mandate exists in Russia's KHL, the AHL and all major junior leagues in North America.
"Young players coming in all have them," coach Peter Laviolette said. "Certainly they save a lot of injuries and possibly a lot of eye injuries. [But] some guys have been playing in the league a long time and I don't think you're going to get a lot of them to change."
Laviolette was on the fence. He said he wouldn't wear one - and didn't wear one in his 12-game NHL career with the Rangers - if he still played. But he also added that he wouldn't let his own hockey-playing sons go without one.
