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Originally Posted by undercoverbrother
I think the refs should be mic'd up. It doesn't have to be broadcast (but at times that would be awesome).
The effort by the league to get it out of the game, IMO, has been piss poor. While they have rules against it, they are soft. If the league wanted it out, they could try to bring in rules like: fight and you are gone for the game, second fight and it is the game and next game, etc.
To put it a better way the NHL has a tacit acceptance of fighting.
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I completely agree that the rules are not enough to deter, and laid out what I think should happen. This still allows for the fights between players bursting out of tensions, but maybe give each a 10 min regardless. I honestly don't really care either way, I enjoy hockey without fighting just as much, so if they decided to all-out ban it completely, black and white, I would be OK with that. But, as I said, The NHL has been trying to get fighting out for years, and the higher ups have said as much. Its the players/teams, fans and media (largely ex-players) that really pump it up, and the NHL needs the players/teams on board in order to make changes to the rules. This is why the point bothers me, the NHL, as an entity, does not allow or want fighting, but their employees do, so it's been a difficult change and they have adapted different rules to try and deter it in other ways (speeding up the game to make fighters obsolete).
I really think the biggest (and best) change the NHL could make to try and deter fights and dirty play in general is to not allow replacement of roster spots for suspended players. Combine that with suspensions for 2nd fights and forward, and fighting and cheap players will be all but gone.
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Originally Posted by kunkstyle
Nothing is that black and white though. Doing 5-10 over on the highway is technically against the rules too, but I don't think anyone who drives would say it's not allowed.
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It's not allowed, you (and most) are just willing to take the risk that a cop won't pull you over because there are bigger fish to fry. It doesn't mean you would have any room to complain if you pulled over for speeding.
