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Originally Posted by theoforever
And the cooke's of hockey will multiply.
My point is that if you remove fighting there will be more cheap shots in the game.
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Yawn. Any stats to back this up?
Edit: Not trying to be dismissive - can you actually provide stats that show a correlation between the amount of fighting and the amount of "cheap" penalties. Is kneeing, butt ending, charging, hitting form behind, etc. on the rise over the last few years? I didn't watch hockey in the 80's, were those plays completely non existent when players were free to self police?
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Originally Posted by Fire
Hitting has go as well (like it or not). It causes more injuries than fighting and it's also not necessary.
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Maybe you're right, (although it certainly doesn't cause more injuries per instance than fighting) maybe it is time for the NHL to remove fighting. The NFL is trying to remove hitting form football...
Maybe it is time we question how we view professional sports and athletes. Is it actually humane to kill others for entertainment? Every year more and more statistics come out showing the harm of head injuries on the future quality of life of our athletes. Society doesn't view Gladiators as an acceptable form of entertainment any more - maybe it's time to question contact sports?
Before someone over reacts I'm not actually suggesting we remove hitting form hockey....
Just because it was done in the past doesn't mean we have to continue to do it. Fighting in hockey is outdated and has no real place in the game. If you want to watch people fight there is a UFC every Saturday. I'd rather watch hockey for, I don't know, hockey?
And just for fun. How much fighting is the right amount of fighting? Fighting is down from the 80's but still way up from the 60's. So for the sake of doing things how things were done in the past shouldn't we strive to continue to reduce fighting until it's in line with how hockey used to be played?
