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Originally Posted by edslunch
I thought the same at first, but really, doesn't that just kill the "blow off steam" argument in favour of fighting? Choreographed right down to the love pats afterwards. Tell me getting rid of this would increase stick work and all the usual BS. Now I would have no problem on the other hand if Grats handed Ference his @ss after beating on Stempniak who clearly wanted no part of it and was already injured from crashing into the boards.
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I took a History of the Cmmon Law course a long time ago, the prof was excellent. One of the points that I remember from the course was the belief that contracts and legal documents were devised to be hard to understand and open to interpretation in order to 'keep it in the family' of lawyers and to insure that they would always have work. Essentially it is 100% self serving and lawyers have rightfully earned their reputation in life as a necessary evil.
IMO this fight proves that fighters are the same thing. Gazdic needed the fight, hence the 'good scrap' and 'thanks for the scrap' afterwards. Gratts fighting him helps Gazdic cement his position as an NHLer. These guys make each other relevant. If they were all gone they would not be needed or missed.
Is that right or wrong? I don't know. But it sure is different than Iggy fighting Beauchemin or Hatcher.
I don't like to see a guy lose his job, but I don't think hockey needs these sorts of fights. It certainly has nothing to do with policing or blowing off steam.
If that were true, Gratts would have killed Ott, Burrows or Eager years ago.