Fans like fighting. It's part of the entertainment. Professional sports are about entertainment. The game is filled with sideshow elements like the dufus shootout. Where a team sport is suddenly down to a handful of playes and a goalie who don't play hockey but just do a circus act. Too much of a circus apparently as they are now clamping down on how much of a sideshow it can be.
It's about butts in the seats. Very few teams wins championships. The league is all about entertaining fans. Those that don't like fights using some sort of hockey argument to rail against it are missing the point entirely. It's professional sports!
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