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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
...This is an emotional argument, and unprovable, frankly. You can no more say that the existence of fighting does not curb such plays than I can say that the absence of fighting would double such incidents.
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This is NOT an emotional argument. But you are correct, which is all the more reason to expect to see some evidence about the efficacy of fighting in hockey once and for all. The traditionalists might be right, but I'm not willing to simply extend them the benefit of the doubt simply because we don't know one way or the other.