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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
^You are preaching to the choir because I've also argued that hitting needs to evolve to be about puck retrieval and nothing more.
I don't really care though how fans react (people are savage) or what a player like Iginla says. I think the players are terrible at guarding their own safety.
But it's about removing something (fighting) that I think is unnecessary to the game but does present long-term risks to players.
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No disrespect but it seems to me you're the one preaching in this thread, I think everyone will agree in 20-30 years we'll look back and say hockey in 2020 was a brutal barbaric game with dangerous violence, but it wasn't that long ago we had 20 fights on the ice with bench brawls which was extremely dangerous with only 3 officials, it also wasn't that long ago people were ending peoples careers Scott Stevens style and it was within the rules.
Change takes time, let the evolution of the game eliminate fighting and if you look you'll see it's already happening.