Fighting, like most things in hockey can't be qualified in a set of data or statistics. The same way advanced stats can't accurately depict player growth or game outcome we can't quantify the effect of a fight. We can't quantify the effect of a hit, a giveaway or a shot block.
The thing about hockey is that it's less of a math equation and more of an organism. Any given hit, fight or block can have a huge effect on the outcome or growth of any given game.
Emotion and momentum have so much of an impact that can't be measured by statistics I would say it's impossible to argue the effects of fighting on wins or losses.
Taking fighting out of the game would just remove a piece of the puzzle that makes hockey games so exciting in my opinion.
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