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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
...Simply put, if you don’t want to fight then don’t. But, I think it’s still a good part of hockey but has to be used in the right way. The number of fights have decreased substantially over the years, so it appears that many hockey players are choosing the first option.
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There are 36 posts in this thread and I have yet to see a compelling argument as to what part of the game fighting contributes. There is the same old canard about "respect" and "policing" and how the threat of a fight supposedly curtails dirty stick work and dangerous hits. But that's just noise. There is not a single point of data in a hundred years of hockey to suggest that fighting serves any purpose at all but to senselessly provide an outlet for angry men to vent their on-ice frustrations, or to satisfy the blood-lust of the onlookers. On the first point, grow up. We should all have learned by middle school that the solution to any problem is not to punch it out through clenched teeth of anger. On the second point, if we are still as a society so enthralled by violence, then that is to our collective shame.
It needs to stop already.