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Originally Posted by driveway
I hate friggin' fighting in hockey. It's idiotic. Clarkson will get his deserved 10, 3 preseason and 7 regular season. Kessel will get no more than 3 and not miss any regular season games.
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This is all the more idiotic when factoring in that Scott will get nothing beyond time served. 5 mins for fighting, a 10 min misconduct, and an additional + 2 for instigating. Two impact players will miss significant, meaningful game-time for responding to verbal and physical threats from a roster-member whose ONLY purpose is to promote physical and psychological intimidation.
Buffalo should be laughing all the way to the bank with this result, and it only serves to emphasise how lopsided and backwards the NHL is with regards to the place and purpose of violence in sports.