If we're going to use the argument that it's always been in the game so it should remain in the game, then we shouldn't worry about head shots and let players be allowed to aim there as they've done throughout the whole history of the game.
Things changes over time due to circumstances. Now the head protection is a very big deal - for good reason - we need to evaluate what should remain in the game. I love hockey fights. I loved it every time Iggy dropped the mitts, but now knowing how serious blows to the head can affect someone's life after hockey, and the possibility of something going disastrously wrong in a fight takedown, the entertainment (which in whole it really is in the end) of the event doesn't outweigh the unnecessary danger of it. It has no effect into the result of the game (statiscally), so there's no need for it to remain.
Contact sports are changing their rules to adopt the new mentally of protecting the head. It seems pretty obvious that fighting has to go if we're going to protect it properly.
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