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Originally Posted by FireGilbert
No longer resembles the sport?
We are talking about preventing head injuries through cracking down on fighting and dangerous hits to the head, not replacing the puck with a tennis ball and the nets with basketball hoops. It seems like a minor change to me much like putting helmets on goalies or getting rid of touch icing.
Hockey can still be a fast, exciting, and dangerous sport without subjecting the players to long term brain damage.
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Juri suggested removing contact from hockey. And this wasent originally about banning enforcers, it was about banning fighting. So yea, fundemtenally changing the game so that it doesn't resemble the sport.