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Old 10-31-2013, 02:44 PM   #33
Rocky Raccoon
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Originally Posted by JiriHrdina View Post
I fundamentally disagree with this:

Reduced to its simplest truth, fighting is one of the mechanisms that regulates the level of violence in our game. Players who break the rules are held accountable by other players. The instigator rule has reduced accountability. Eliminating fighting would render it extinct.

First – the league is the party that regulates the game. No other sport puts this in the hands of the players, except for baseball with its equally foolish practice of guys throwing pitches at each other.
Second – If this was an effective deterrent – where is the evidence? There are dirty players in virtually every game. If this is the purpose of fighting – it is doing a piss poor job of achieving it

In short the same tired arguments that have no real basis.
Not to be abrasive, but there will never be evidence either way and using other sports and other leagues as evidence to support your opinion are folly because they are not the NHL and they do not have the same culture. I respect your opinion, but to state it as fact because the other side of the debate has no evidence either puts both sides in the same position; neither one is right or wrong.
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