[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by Oil Stain

Did it really? Or is this just something that people say?

I don't recall any Canadian players having their ankle broken with a slash during the Summit Series.

Of all the famous stick swinging incidents I can think of, all of them were Canadian culprits. Simon, McSorely, Clarke, Brown, Messier had one too?

The list of dirtiest players all time is pretty much all Canadian.

I like fighting. I want fighting to stay in the game. But the only good arguement for keeping fighting is that we like it.

I haven't ever seen a convincing "Fighting prevents X" arguement.

I'd argue they were out of frustration after being hacked and whacked continually.

Here's this,

During the interview McSorley makes it very clear, purely from a nuts-and-bolts point of view, that the instigator rule did make it impossible for him to do his job by dealing with transgressors directly. He also acknowledges that this led to more gladiator-style fighting.


However, McSorely also says that, while the inability to deal with the game's weasels was frustrating, the gladiator stuff never really bothered him.

http://pacificgazette.blogspot.ca/20...ator-rule.html