Iginla mentioned that it makes the game safer. To all of us that know hockey in and out, we can all trust that our former captain knows exactly what he is talking about. When bad and illegal things happen to people, they should face the inevitable response by the person that it was done too, or someone that cares for them a lot, through family, or as a teammate.
The comments that I saw on that article hurts me in so many ways that it's unbearable. Either those people don't truly understand the sport, don't watch it at all, or they're straight hippie liberal ###### bags.
Fighting in hockey, not only makes the people accountable for their idiotic actions, but in many ways, motivates the team to know that they won't be pushed around. Hockey, in my opinion, is the toughest sport in the world, especially with one that can have many consequences through injury. Fighting should always be part of the game. I've never seen someone in my time, be so devastated via injury because of a fight, unless the fight was never agreed upon from both players. (Like Bertuzzi, who should be jumped by any real human being for what he did to Moore.
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Like Iginla said, although fighting can be perceived as entertainment, it still has the symbolic, authentic, and rational action for what it truly should be displayed as.