How about respect? Motivation? Displaying a never back down attitude? It came up in the Vancouver is No Good thread. Would we look at Henrik (whichever Sedin it was) differently if he had stood up for himself when Marchand was speed bagging his head? Would his team have responded differently in the series? I think so.
I am not a huge fan of fighting especially the staged ones but I do think there is a time and place for it. It's an emotional game played with high intensity and is very physical. Sometimes there are only so many slashes and crosschecks a man can take before he does something about.
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