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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
Here's what I don't get about the fighting arguments. Burke and his ilk will contend that without fighting, the rats will run rampant. The stick work will be out of control.
How much stick work has the threat of fighting prevented in the last 18 years. I would argue, not a single slash. Yet someone gets blown up with a clean hit and all of a sudden, we've got a full on donnybrook.
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So last year, when our star player had over 20 slashes to his hand/wrist area in a single game and was out for multiple weeks, you don't think a real intimidating threat on the ice might have prevented that?
If Eric Staal gets an elbow to the chops the first time he slashes Gaudreau, I promise you he thinks twice before doing it again. It isn't the fighter that is the biggest deterrent, it is the guy who others think might cross the line.