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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Then it will just snowball due to the major amount of concussions come from body checks. If fighting leaves the NHL you can bet body checking will follow shortly after. Any type of hard hit will be illegal. Body checks, not fighting is the biggest liability risk in hockey.
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Removing a player from the puck via a clean check is a hockey play and requires skill to execute within the flow of the action.
Stopping the game altogether, removing your equipment, and landing haymakers on an opponent is very different. Its actually a hinderance to the flow of the game. Fighting and hitting are not even remotely the same thing. Risk of injury in something that is part of the game is very different than risk of injury from something that is by and large pretty useless.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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