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Originally Posted by memphusk
Agreed. You break my guys finger, I break your guys hand. In this game you have to fight back in any means.
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Yep it's one thing to advocate for violence for the sake of it, but the reality of it is the league is still that way and you need to be able to answer back. Staal and Komarov didn't even get 2 minutes for really hurting the whole Flames team by taking Johnny out of the game. As long as guys can still whack, slash and run around, you need to be able to send a message to minimize it.
And I think the instigator is there, but the reality is that's a non factor. It is not called that much, and even if it is, the Flames PK is like 81%. How many times in a year are you going to jump a guy for running around... maybe it costs the Flames a goal a year.
Having Johnny in the lineup for the time he lost with his broken hand/finger alone would be worth a goal against let alone all the other liberties.
I hate to say anything good about the Oilers, I despise them and all the handouts they've been given, but they added Maroon, Kassian and Lucic for nothing basically while Treliving sat on his hands. All those guys can play a regular shift. To me that is the biggest black mark on our GM's record, failing to address toughness with a very young and a bit undersized team while there were guys out there available.