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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
People who are pro fighting should just admit it's because they like it. The it keeps the rats away stuff is false. There has been rats in hockey forever... Before the instigator rule, after the instigator rule... There's always been rats.
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Speaking of rats, what about Kenny "The Rat" Linesman?
He was a dirty, chirping little son of a bitch (and did you notice his nickname is "The Rat"?) and over 860 games, got 1700 penalty minutes, and only fought 23 times.
23 fights! That's about twice a season, in the wild 80's. That's
before the instigator rule, btw, so if you want to blame it on that, you can't!
I remember Linseman and I know he did something dirty more than twice a season. Probably twice a game. But he never had to pay for it. He wasn't scared.
Seems to me that The Rats will do rat things whether they have to fight or not. It certainly didn't deter him.
Now of course HockeyDB doesn't tell me how many times Dave Brown, Dave Semenko, Kevin Mclelland, Lyndon Byers... or the many other tough guys he played with had to fight for him, but it no doubt happened often.
Hey, you could say that the fighters and fighting actually allowed him to play dirty, because he knew there'd be someone there to fight his battles. Could be you know. Could be that fighting increases dirty play!