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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
So let me get this straight.
You think that Steve Yzerman, who retired from playing seven years ago, is so out of touch with NHL hockey today that he just doesn't get it?
His opinions aren't as valid as those of Zack Kassian, Taylor Hall, or Dustin Byfuglien? Is that it?
He doesn't understand hockey as well as those guys?
As for that fossil Scotty Bowman, you are spot on. When he was standing behind the bench while the Habs were winning all those Stanley Cups, and mowing down the Broadstreet Bullies and the Big Bad Bruins, the concepts intimidation, retribution, and even fighting itself had yet to be invented. He just wouldn't understand hockey today.
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It's not simply a matter of having experience, it's a matter of how connected to the matter you are.
If you work with a company at the base level, and then you move into an executive role, away from the day to day grind, you lose your point of reference. It's not a profound theory, it's just kind of what happens.
I'm not saying that these guys don't know about fighting, that they don't know about the role it played when they were players, but it simply doesn't matter to them now. When you're a player, fighting has a role, it has value. When you're an executive, fighting becomes meaningless. It's no longer protecting you, it's no longer a deterrent, it's just something that happens, and you lose your point of reference for what makes it important, because it really IS only important if you're a player.
That's all, would never suggest guys never knew the value of fighting, but when it only affects an aspect of your life that you aren't a part of anymore, you lose your relevant point of reference.