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Old 02-28-2013, 12:42 PM   #193
JayP
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Originally Posted by Parallex View Post
Boo. In the season after Burke made his infamous "truculance" remark some Leafs bloggers did a study to see if team scoring rates increased in the immediate aftermath of a fight... what they found was that it had zero impact, the team scoring rate remained static.
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The idea of fighting building momentum for a team is a textbook example of confirmation bias.
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