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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
This is what I don't understand about fighting.
The purpose is to hit the other guy in the head. That's what they are trying to do.
Then when someone suffers a head injury it's treated as a shocking and unacceptable outcome of that. Even though that's the specific activity that was being engaged in.
I don't get it. Just get rid of it already.
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To get rid of it, the refs need to be held to a higher standard. They need to call the actual rule book, and players need to learn to play within it. It’ll make for a faster breed of hockey in the end as well.
This stupid place that we’re at where refs “manage” games rather than call the rule book keeps the conversation of fighting being “needed” because otherwise you get hits like that Khaira hit that go uncalled, and the counter point would be that they’d happen more often. Khaira ultimately took the damage he had previously dealt by playing recklessly, but that’s not justice in the law of the league - the law of the league states 5 minute major and a game misconduct, which would have prevented the second injury.
Just call the damn rule book, and make fighting an instant five game suspension.