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Originally Posted by transplant99
You say this...yet you want it drastically altered.
Hitting is, has been , and hopefully always will be, a core part of what makes the sport so great.
You take it out and you literally have changed the entire sport itself.
IMO it would be a death knell to the game. it's all about being entertained and a big hit/fight has always made fans erupt out of their seats.
Look at the crowd in NJ last night when Benn and Wood hooked up for a big boy/throw back scrap....they went crazy.
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the deathknell of hockey will be the same one afflicting football right now:
Parents not enrolling their kids because the sport is too dangerous.