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Horses %%!# that people have been pedaling for a long time.Originally Posted by DoubleJs07
Originally Posted by Osh Kosh Bosh
You are right, there isn't a single good reason, it's a relic of another time that shouldn't exist, it's good for nothing besides melting the brains of your work force and incurring lawsuits.Originally Posted by DeadsetAce
attracting fans isn't the reason fighting is needed or why it's a good to have in the NHL...
Yea, OK....
It's a GREAT way for players to police themselves and others on the ice. Take out the fighting and you get more stick infractions, which are 10x worse than taking a knuckle to the jaw. Fighting keeps the game honest. I knew there would be an overreaction from many people as soon as Asham KO'd Beagle.....
1. Most of the really egregious stick infractions and dirty play get committed by these "enforcers" anyways and most of them wouldn't be on the ice if fighting was abolished because they have no actual hockey skill.
2. Football is the a sport that involves more consistent physical contact than Hockey, yet I don't see this clamoring need for fighting, has football just degraded into this haven for dirty play that destroys the fabric of the game? If football a sport where 300 pound line men crash into each other on every play can survive without fighting hockey can too. The inssitenace on keeping it is nothing more than a nod to tradition because it would be unreasonable to argue that player X is going to start taking a lot more team harming penalties because he doesn't have a fighter.
Look at this if what your saying actually was reality and players were more likely to commit stick infractions without the threat of fighting so by that logic teams that rarely fight and don't really have goons should have drawn more penalties against them.
These are the top 5 penalty drawing teams this year, it has no correlation to the teams that fight the most.
It degrades the quality of the game by having teams carry completely unskilled hockey players on there rosters
Penalties are the only deterrents to dirty play, it's that simple, not the threat for the other teams goon going and fighting your goon, and if unlike a fighting major they actually hurt your team.
Originally Posted by bjm5295
if its that simple, then we might as well abolish boxing as a sport.
aka its not that simple.
Two trained fighters agreeing to fight each other under set of predetermined and detailed rules, with safety equipment like gloves is in no way like two untrained fighters bare knuckle boxing on a sheet of ice, with skates on, with no holds barred.
The fact that you would even compare the two is baffling.
Also to the proponents of hockey fighting, as players become bigger, and stronger we are approaching the day when a fighter dies on the ice will you be in support of it then? Once somebody dies on the ice can we get rid of it? How many fighters have to die off the ice before we can get rid of? What exactly has to give, because the reasons that keep getting thrown at me simply aren't true and we anecdotal and statistical evidence that shows that.