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Originally Posted by GioforPM
It's not what I said, though, you are just taking the two exampless I used and stretching them to the entirety of the premise I stated. They happened to be good examples of players who could fight.
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They happened to be very bad examples of players who could fight, because they could not fight without giving a huge advantage to the other team.
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Let's be clear then - fighters don't have to be the best player, but they have to be a player who can take a regular shift. Don't like those examples? OK, try pre-concussion Ferland, Gudbrandson, Engelland, or even Nurse.
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That I agree with – mostly. However, players like that are few and far between. The other reason why teams used to employ goons is that the ability to fight on skates is not often coupled with the ability to play NHL-quality hockey. So you get teams using mooks like Gazdic or Peluso.