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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
The league does not care. they haven't cared for 25 years if they ever cared at all.
Players need to police themselves on the ice, simple as that. Better to ask forgiveness than permission in the eyes of the league.
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That'd be nice but the cost is too heavy for the whole police yourself action.
A few years ago fans wanted to get rid of players having the ability to police themselves. They wanted to remove the things like the Lemieux Draper stuff for example.
But what happened is we ended up with basically a cheap shot league where the pests became extremely sought after commodities, the Avery's and Cookes and Keslers etc became worth their weight in gold because Refs have been told to clamp down on retaliation and its ok to miss the initial act.
You can't have that nuclear option where you can tell a team that if they go after our star, we'll go after yours.
On the positive we got rid of the heavy weight staged fight, on the negative side, the league took out the ability to self police itself and it isn't going to return.