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Originally Posted by Alberta_Beef
We all know players used to cross check, spear, slash their opponents more (it was more than 10 years ago), but the fact of the matter is it did used to happen, how you can ignore that and and pretend it did not happen? With the decrease in fighting it seems like there are more cheap shot like this because players have no fear of being held accountable. I say it seems because I don't have numbers and it may just seem that way, but they certainly have no decreased. I know I would rather see Nyquist cross check Spurgeon back and try to pummel him rather than what happened.
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There's no way to prove it one way or otherwise. No website or person in the world tracks non-penalized infractions. If the ref misses them or doesn't call them, there's no way to know.
The pro-fight crowd is just as a subjective as the anti crowd. Nobody knows what works and what doesn't.