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Originally Posted by Vulcan
That's your opinion but it isn't the way it works. It works the way Ference handled it. Hockey is a game of intimidation as well as the other skills.
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Well I could argue that's your opinion as well. Not every big hit results in a fight and it doesn't need to. There's plenty of ways to respond and includes responding with a big hit right back, goading the other team into a penalty and putting it in the back of the net. Look at teams like Detroit, . They rarely respond by jumping a player and have been very successful with their style of play. If every big hit deserved a response, I am pretty sure Lance Bouma would have had more than 3 fights last year and I don't recall him getting jumped once.
The example of Ferland and Vancouver is a bad one. Bieksa actually did jump Ferland in the series and it got them nowhere. It's not that they didn't respond, it's that they couldn't respond with the same intensity and level of phsyical play.
The way Ference handled it isn't the norm. It's BS. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.