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Pretty much. Although I will say that the term "hockey voodoo" is itself a bit of an extreme, although not at all unwarranted. What is the difference between a belief in the power of prayer to effect the impact in one's life and the power of a hockey fight to change "momentum"?
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Yes it is extreme, almost to the point of losing credibility in your argument. I'm not even going to compare real in-game events to hopeful prayers. I'm assuming you've not played a competitive team sport before if you can't fathom the difference.
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Yes. But "being big" is not the same thing as "fighting."
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Our goalies didn't grow and they stopped getting run over somehow.
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How could you tell?
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I watched the games. It's not hard to see a self-defeated look on a goalies face. Not from being scored on, but from getting run over and not even seeing a scrum around the net afterwards. It was pathetic and a time where the flames had no identity.
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So, here is a great illustration of the term "hockey voodoo": "A" happened and then "B," ergo, "A" was the cause of "B."
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Science must scare the crap out of you. Just because you can't prove something doesn't mean you should deny it's existence when you see consistent results.
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The question of the relationship of hockey fights to the on ice outcome of games is something I am absolutely interested in. But I'm not simply content to take one's word for it. This is something that should be measurable, and until someone figures out how to do so, I will remain sceptical. Give me a convincing argument from evidence, and I will believe.
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See above (any post really).