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    Default Re: The hypocrisy of hockey

    Quote Originally Posted by tmacattack33
    In hockey you're on skates. No one can get leverage on a punch if they're on skates. They also have pads.

    So it's usually not even that bad.
    Not really. People want it gone because the damage it's doing to players brains, similar to protecting the QB in football. Yeah alot of the times it's nothing seriously but you can get some real crazy one's going. Earlier in the year I believe Parros had a nasty fall. I guess your not aloud to remove your helmet anymore, fights nowadays are nowhere near as bad they use to be.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKWBupArhpE

    Those are some bombs tho. Much more than what you see with basketball players flicking there wrists

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    To clarify it's deff the history and how long it's been around. You got kicked out for fighting when I was a kid but you still did it. You seen guys like Tie Domi sticking up for teammates so you wanted to do the same. As you advance the fighting continues regardless of punishment. So for NHL players they've seen it on every level just like they see goals and assists, same with fans.

    For the record last nights activities will be on the hot seat among NHL fans. Esp Torts going after Hartley during the intermission, the coaches. Check out an NHL forum, some do consider what Hartley did a major offense. He started his 4th line looking for a fight and Torts was forced to match thus creating the mayhem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Go Getter
    You mean like beating someone over the head with a stick?
    nah

    like bynum hitting barea at the end of the LA series.. artest and pretty much all his incidents.. if you put Ben Wallace and Ron Artest on ice and let them duke it out Artest never goes into the stands. All the animosity is gone after the fight.. nothing builds up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chosen_one6


    You weren't specific.

    The ignorance about the sport and fighting just comes from a lack of understanding of the sport. A few posters have already eloquently stated why fighting is around in hockey and the impact it can have. Some people say hockey is an irrelevant sport or that it's boring to watch but I say those people don't know what they're talking about.

    I see what you're saying but I don't agree. Hockey players get a pass for thuggish behavior. They staged a fight and no one in here called them classless or selfish but Sherman said snide comments after the game and he is a goon, a thug, someone who needs to be shut up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tpols
    nah

    like bynum hitting barea at the end of the LA series.. artest and pretty much all his incidents.. if you put Ben Wallace and Ron Artest on ice and let them duke it out Artest never goes into the stands. All the animosity is gone after the fight.. nothing builds up.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcgivAeVlI4

    Hockey players fight fans too.

    Artest didn't initiate the fight he got a beer thrown on him. Domi squirted the fans with water and started the confrontation. Still, Artest is the def. of sports bad boy...

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    Hockey has fighting because:

    1-protect the smaller skill players who could easily be taken out within the rules of this full contact game(important to remember). Wayne Gretzky's records are so amazing because he played so many years with an unskilled bodyguard (Dave Smenko) on his line. The reason why is a guy like him dancing around the ice is equivalent to a quarterback running wild out of the pocket...he could get drilled, so if someone takes umbrage, there is someone there to make sure they pay for it.

    Fighting is an added deterrent to hard hits on the less physical players.

    Not everyone fights, players know this, there are guys who are there to score, and muckers. The muckers tend to mingle with each other, when they go at a star or a goalie, their counterpart muckers will sort them out.

    You would never see a goon go after a top shelf, non-physical star, and the reason why is it goes again the unwritten rules of the game which are policed through fighting.

    2-keep the stick work to a minimal. you hit someone with your stick, you can guarantee you will get a fist in your mouth before the end of the game. if you follow every nasty piece of stick work, there is almost 100% of the time a fight involving the guilty party shortly there after.

    3-there is a method to fighting, rare are there cheapshots in a fight and rarely does a fight end where there is not a 'good job' or some exchange at the end. it is an intricate and necessary part of the game, without there would be more injuries and more stoppages in play because everything would need to go through the officiating and the dirty players would have a field day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JtotheIzzo
    Hockey has fighting because:

    1-protect the smaller skill players who could easily be taken out within the rules of this full contact game(important to remember). Wayne Gretzky's records are so amazing because he played so many years with an unskilled bodyguard (Dave Smenko) on his line. The reason why is a guy like him dancing around the ice is equivalent to a quarterback running wild out of the pocket...he could get drilled, so if someone takes umbrage, there is someone there to make sure they pay for it.

    Fighting is an added deterrent to hard hits on the less physical players.

    Not everyone fights, players know this, there are guys who are there to score, and muckers. The muckers tend to mingle with each other, when they go at a star or a goalie, their counterpart muckers will sort them out.

    You would never see a goon go after a top shelf, non-physical star, and the reason why is it goes again the unwritten rules of the game which are policed through fighting.

    2-keep the stick work to a minimal. you hit someone with your stick, you can guarantee you will get a fist in your mouth before the end of the game. if you follow every nasty piece of stick work, there is almost 100% of the time a fight involving the guilty party shortly there after.

    3-there is a method to fighting, rare are there cheapshots in a fight and rarely does a fight end where there is not a 'good job' or some exchange at the end. it is an intricate and necessary part of the game, without there would be more injuries and more stoppages in play because everything would need to go through the officiating and the dirty players would have a field day.

    Why are the rules policed by fighting and not the FO? Regulations from the commissioner, in theory, could stop all that drama.

    If hockey players like to make millions playing a children's game they will comply, no?
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    Default Re: The hypocrisy of hockey

    Quote Originally Posted by Go Getter
    Why are the rules policed by fighting and not the FO?

    If hockey players like to make millions playing a children's game they will comply, mo?
    You do realize fighting in hockey goes beyond the NHL right? and like I said history of the game. They made fighting a major back in the 20's. That's a whole lot of seasons where fighting is a 5 minute major. Nobody cares because that's the way it's always been, thats hockey

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    Default Re: The hypocrisy of hockey

    Quote Originally Posted by Go Getter
    Why are the rules policed by fighting and not the FO? Regulations from the commissioner, in theory could stop all that drama.

    If hockey players like to make millions playing a children's game they will comply, no?
    Because fighting has worked since it's inception, so why change it?

    and fighting is not that "classless" in the NHL as you're making it out to be. There is a gentlemanly agreement with combatants and monitored closely by the refs. Rarely is there a major injury.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NuggetsFan
    You do realize fighting in hockey goes beyond the NHL right? and like I said history of the game. They made fighting a major back in the 20's. That's a whole lot of seasons where fighting is a 5 minute major. Nobody cares because that's the way it's always been, thats hockey

    I like the fighting in hockey. I would not like it to change.

    My thing is:

    Hockey player fights=it's a part of the game; it's how it's always been
    Football player fight=he's a thug/goon/poor role model

    Which is crazy because the whole game is a shoving match.

    Sherman talked trash after a game and he is a thug but hockey players stage a fight and it's shrugged off -- it seems like a double standard to me.

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    Default Re: The hypocrisy of hockey

    because football sucks thats why

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    Default Re: The hypocrisy of hockey

    Quote Originally Posted by hateraid
    Because fighting has worked since it's inception, so why change it?

    and fighting is not that "classless" in the NHL as you're making it out to be. There is a gentlemanly agreement with combatants and monitored closely by the refs. Rarely is there a major injury.
    I never tried to make it out as a classless act [only the extreme instances where a person was beat with a stick]...I'm wondering why fighting in hockey is seen as tough but in other sports it's seen as classless.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Go Getter
    I never tried to make it out as a classless act [only the extreme instances where a person was beat with a stick]...I'm wondering why fighting in hockey is seen as tough but in other sports it's seen as classless.
    BECAUSE FIGHTING IS NOT PART OF OTHER GAMES what do you not understand? it's expected in hockey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hateraid
    Because fighting has worked since it's inception,.
    See, inception can be done!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Styles p
    BECAUSE FIGHTING IS NOT PART OF OTHER GAMES what do you not understand? it's expected in hockey.

    I don't understand why it is EXPECTED in hockey.

    I don't understand why hockey players are allowed to regulate themselves and the NHL doesn't do it.

    I don't understand why hockey fights are seen as an act of toughness but in other sports it is seen as an act of classlessness.

    *The only sports that fighting should be a part of is boxing, wrestling, martial arts, and MMA.

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