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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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Or the DNA of the people playing the game. These guys grew up playing a contact sport at a level where there wasn't money involved. They rose to the highest level of the game because they loved it. Fighting, hitting and all. Before you start changing the game fundamentally by removing all contact, you should make sure that the guys playing the game want it gone first.