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Originally Posted by GioforPM
If you want fighters today you need ones that are players first, fighters second. Iginla, Chara, Buf, etc.
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And then your opponent sends out a player who is a fighter first and a player never, and his goon and your superstar both end up in the penalty box.
This has always been why NHL teams employed enforcers. Not because the good players couldn't fight, but because nobody would miss the enforcer when he was gone for five minutes.
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