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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
You guys are looking at it too narrowly. Non-checking leagues exist at all levels, right up to adult rec. The women's game doesn't allow it at any level.
So how can you argue that fighting is unnecessary on the one hand, but argue that bodychecking is necessary on the other? Numerous organizations have demonstrated that bodychecking isn't necessary or "key" to hockey. The difference, as I see it, really comes down to the fact that you like bodychecking and dislike fighting.
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Resolute 14, I dislike that checking was taken out of the women's game. I believe it should be brought back in.
Bodychecking to me is a part of the game, while fighting isn't. It fundamentally comes down to that.
It is easy to say fighting is unnecessary, I think the argument is harder to make that it is necessary.
At the end of the day for me, it is a key component to the sport. It doesn't put the puck in the other teams net, nor does it keep the puck out of your own net.
Look I get it, you like fighting. That's fine, good for you. But I can't see how it is a necessary part of hockey.
I like physical, fast skilled hockey. There are enough way within the confines of the rules of hockey to demonstrate your displeasure with the opposition that you don't need fighting.
I am not anti-physical hockey.