This speaks volumes to me:
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“There’s an emotional level you have to get to to assist you in winning and we have to look into that,”
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When a hockey guy who is at the pinnacle of this sport says you
need emotion to help you win games, I feel vindicated. So many times you hear people say a fight can't/doesn't spark a team, or things like "why retaliate and take a penalty?".
In the long run, the extra 2 mins you get is negligible compared to how you make a teammate feel when you genuinely standup for him when an opponent is molesting him. Guys at every level feel a boost when they see a teammate to go battle for them. I know that doesn't show up on counting stats or the fancy stats, but it's a real thing. There are intangibles in hockey and I hope we don't remove all emotion from the game so it truly becomes a dump, chase, change library event.