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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
...Fans love it and the players want it. It is not a defeatist attitude to say that it is a popular aspect of the sport and should be retained.
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It is a defeatist position to make this claim as a justification for avoiding due diligence and seeking the evidence to support it. Again, I have no problem with fighting in the game (outside of the fact that it is boring) IF it is deemed useful and important enough to retain, and IF it is not unnecessarily risking the lives and long-term health of the players. The popular opinion is not always the right one, and in the wake of recent scientific research, I think it is important for the NHL and the NHLPA to study the issue, and ground their position in some actual evidence.