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Originally Posted by WilderPegasus
And why did he fall over Orr while unable to protect himself with his hands?
I get that it was a freak occurrence but to think that something other than fighting was responsible for it is silly.
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Was it that freak of an occurence? From what has been said today: two years ago the same combatants. Orr also slipped but that time he was the one who hit the ice and was out for the rest of the season with a concussion.
The end result is the staged fights need to go. I don't want to see a the spur of the moment two guys really just feel the need to unload on each other fight. However, I don't mind increasing the penalty for even that type of fight. Add in a 10 minute misconduct or even a double misconduct. Make it so that players really need to make the assessment if it is worth it. Guys who get into the spur of the moment fights don't get into more than a few fights a year...get into 5 fights get a suspension (loss of salary to the players) for several games and escalate the suspension for each fight. Or something. Just get rid of the stupid fights.
But you need to couple this with strict enforcement of all the other dangerous play and as we all know the NHL doesn't really care to do that either.