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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
Well to be fair concussions are going to happen one way or another it’s a high speed sport played by men on blades on a cold surface as hard as concrete. Remove fighting and it’s still going to happen. Rather then remove entertainment from the game why not ramp up the way they treat and recognize concussions.
There is a reason why the overwhelming majority of NHL players want fighting in the game. What you ask for is essentially to remove the competitive essence of the game. In order to make the game at low risk ( and honestly still not at zero) you would have to make it a no contact sport. I think you’d have a dead sport at that point. We have to understand that there’s risks and do our best to work around them but you can’t just change the DNA of the game.
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I believe you can and I believe it will happen
Fighting will go away
Checking will evolve to be primarily stick checking and removing player from puck and anything more than that won't be allowed.
The game will become about speed and skill. There was still be injuries of course due to that speed. But you can't say that you are taking concussions seriously when you allow players to literally bash either others faces in with their fists.