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Originally Posted by Ped
My point was, what the players want shouldn't be a barometer for what is best. Or we wouldn't have visors or helmets.
Wouldn't it have been better to make visors mandatory before players started losing eyes?
The players have proven that they care more for comfort than for safety. Therefore we shouldn't be looking to them for what to do.
Like with any other rule change, they'll adapt.
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I don't necessarily disagree with your opinion, but we don't live in a world where the players have no say. Whether or not you feel they
should have a say in this, the reality is that they
do. Consequently, their opinion matters.
As an aside, they talked about this on the panel during the Leafs game, and I was really quite surprised to hear Bob McKenzie state that he believes fighting is here to stay. Especially since he is an anti-fighting guy overall, I believe. Among his arguments, he noted that in minor leagues that ban fighting, the automatic game misconduct actually encourages tough guys to go out and fight late in games, if only to get out of the game and to the dressing room sooner. And, in the few junior B games I've seen that ban fighting, the auto game misconduct certainly has not curtailed it. (Two obvious caveats though: small sample size, and the fact that the plural of anecdote is not data.)