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Originally Posted by transplant99
Its what happens when you essentially remove fighting from the game and keep the instigator as a penalty.
Stick work on star players will occur with far more frequency because there is little chance of retribution, and if there is someone willing to do something about it, they will just leave their team short handed.
Its the pussification of the game as it has been heading for the last decade now...maybe even longer.
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There has always been stick work and cheap shots. It is revisionist history to think that there wasn't. If anything else this has been the cleanest that the game has ever been. The good ol' days with fighting featured some of the most brutal cheap shots you could ever witness. Watch highlights from the 70s and 80s, the number of slashes, hacks and hooks is unbelievable - hell just look at the number of players who got into sword fights with their sticks in an attempt to bludgeon and club their opponents!