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Originally Posted by dammage79
Disagree, could another moment have arrived before the team bonded and bought in the way they did immediately after? Possibly, but the Brawl was undoubtedly the catalyst to this teams mentality. I would not say it's confirmation bias either. Because no other event had the effect on the team as that moment had. They were listless before it and hardened steel after it.
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It is the precise definition of a confirmation bias. It's impossible to know the long term effect of something like that, it's impossible to measure, and all we have to go on are our own intuitions. That is precisely what a confirmation bias is—an intuitive cause and effect connection between events that validate one's pre-existing beliefs.
Nevertheless, I am more interested in your conviction here: are you really prepared to say that there is no other possible explanation for the Flames' success today? If so, how so? I'm afraid I am just not convinced, even by your use of a word like "undoubtedly."
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Originally Posted by dammage79
Ultimately it's completely irrelevant what we as fans believe will bring a team together. It's everything to the players in the room though. Fighting isn't that one thing that can have that effect and a big goal or an insane save could do the same.
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I've never denied that. (Only I would add that fighting is the only such event that has no
direct impact on the flow or outcome of a game. Unlike a big goal or a save, if the fight doesn't happen, there is no change in the score). But yes, fighting induces an emotional response from players. What I have been arguing is that it is unnecessary. Fighting is dangerous. It's effect is not indispensable. It's absence will have no impact on the game. Fans will miss it (for a time), but in my opinion that is a small price to pay for the potential gains provided to players' overall well being.
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Originally Posted by dammage79
But to disregard fighting as one piece to a puzzle in this sport is a bias towards your personal preferences.
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You're right. I don't like fighting. And I have not once "disregarded" its potential to seemingly impact a game. What I have consistently argued is that it is unnecessary.
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Originally Posted by dammage79
To me a situation like the brawl was the quenching of the steel when making a sword, all the materials are there, combined but not complete, that quenching makes it tougher and harder and ready to use in battle. Actually, I think that's a completely relevant analogy.
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I have no idea what this means.