Brutal stick swinging donnybrook at mens rec game in TO

[mrdonkey]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Pretty sad reactions here that say a lot about the state of society. Now, I know this isn’t popular, but I’m more than a little tired of listening to people who want to take violent stick swinging out of the sport. Personally, the wusification of our sport is making it worse. If we take out stick swinging, there is just going to be more fighting, more verbal disagreements, more just letting things go like adults. Is that what you people really want?

Maybe it’s just me, but I grew up with stick swinging and I still like it. My favourite memories involve stick swinging heroics from guys like Probert and McSorley. I would stop watching clips of beer league hockey online if they took stick swinging out of the game.

Why, when I was your age, my pappy would hit me upside the head with a stick and beat me until I saw red, and I turned out just fine. Buncha sissies, I tell ya hwhat.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Originally Posted by PepsiFree

Pretty sad reactions here that say a lot about the state of society. Now, I know this isn’t popular, but I’m more than a little tired of listening to people who want to take violent stick swinging out of the sport. Personally, the wusification of our sport is making it worse. If we take out stick swinging, there is just going to be more fighting, more verbal disagreements, more just letting things go like adults. Is that what you people really want?

Maybe it’s just me, but I grew up with stick swinging and I still like it. My favourite memories involve stick swinging heroics from guys like Probert and McSorley. I would stop watching clips of beer league hockey online if they took stick swinging out of the game.

What's a head contusion or two between friends?

Also" "Donnybrook" is a great word.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Reggie Dunlop

What's a head contusion or two between friends?

Also" "Donnybrook" is a great word.

When a kerfuffle gets out of hand.

[GreenLantern2814]

People in Toronto are insane.

[Reggie Dunlop]

Leafs fans.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by calgarygeologist

This is why I don't play rec/beer league hockey despite really wanting to be on the ice. I have a passion to play but I don't want to deal with this type of garbage or other cheap shots because getting hurt at this point in life is not worth it and recovery is not fun.

I'll stick to some pick-up shinny with the old guys.

Yeah, I just do a weekly game of pickup with friends and friends of friends. Guys who get intense and chippy are quickly asked to leave. Nobody wants to get hurt... incidentally I found a slippery spot on the ice, fell down and separated my shoulder!

[MoneyGuy]

Guys who attack with sticks in a stupid rec game should be criminally charged. I can’t believe they’re not.

[2ArmBands]

Most of these guys look like they can barely skate. I used to ref mens leagues many years ago and it was always the guys that took the game up later in life doing the dumbest stuff

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by D as in David

When a kerfuffle gets out of hand.

What starts as shenanigans can often develop into a kerfuffle.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Titan2

What starts as shenanigans can often develop into a kerfuffle.

Which can then escalate into full on ballyhoo leading to an outright Donnybrook!

[Saqe]

Bunch of dumb rednecks looking to whale on someone. I guess it's better to do it on the ice than at home.

[Jay Random]

Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina

Which can then escalate into full on ballyhoo leading to an outright Donnybrook!

Apparently charges are only laid if the donnybrook breaks out into pandemonium.

One has to draw the line somewhere.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Apparently charges are only laid if the donnybrook breaks out into pandemonium.

One has to draw the line somewhere.

I mean if a scrap turns into a ruckus and then escalates into a rumble then one must mediate the dispute, but use of a hockey stick as an engine of destruction shant be tolerated!

[TheIronMaiden]

Hitting people with your stick in a fight is not the cure to male loneliness.

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by TheIronMaiden

Hitting people with your stick in a fight is not the cure to male loneliness.

Who are we to judge if some like it rough.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Jay Random

Apparently charges are only laid if the donnybrook breaks out into pandemonium.

One has to draw the line somewhere.

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

Who are we to judge if some like it rough.

"Pandemonium" would be their safe word?

[Eric Vail]

Who was in the most danger in the video? The guy getting hit with the stick by the guy on the bench, or the gut being fed fists against the boards?

[topfiverecords]

Originally Posted by D as in David

"Pandemonium" would be their safe word?

I think it's donnybrook.

[Reggie Dunlop]

"Malfunction at the Junction" -- DEFCON 1 Donnybrook.

[fotze2]

I saw parents fight at family shinny at Westside rec. They had to close it down because of it. Coincidentally their kids are high level players in the Dub now. Fataing idiots.