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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
SuperMatt18 - There's really no other way to put this: Your proposal is asinine.
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Why? We have this built in idea that we need "goons" and "enforcers" to keep hockey players honest but fail to acknowledge that the best hockey of the season (playoffs) features no goons or enforcers and rarely has fights.
The goal should be to have fighting at the same frequency as the playoffs, when the fights actually have meaning. If fighting is so important to the game of hockey why does it disappear when the games matter the most.
The exact punishment would need to be tweaked of course, I don't think numbers I threw out in 5 minutes would be perfect but why not be increased penalties for guys who fight frequently.
I agree that we want to keep stuff like the Lupul-Schenn fight from last night in the game and the rules that I put above would not impact those guys since they are lucky to have another fight this year.
The fights we should try to get rid of are the Orr vs Parros fights of the world that take place between two guys who play 5 shifts per game.