Posted on 03/06/2023 12:58:42 PM PST by DoodleBob
The NHL has a culture problem. It oversees the only professional sport that condones fighting during games among its players, so much so that extracurricular fights are part of the game’s identity, its DNA. Case in point: It has a designated major penalty for fighting because fighting has always been prevalent.
The time has arrived to stop such egregious endorsement and end fighting for good.
Skill, rather than fights, has served other professional sports well, with fights during games frowned upon. Other sports leagues have instituted policies that address and deter fighting, using combinations of suspensions, fines and buy-in from teams and players. The NFL and the NBA have zero tolerance policies when players engage in fights.
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“It oversees the only professional sport that condones fighting”
Boxing, MMA?
People go to races to see crashes, they go to hockey games to see fights.
BTW I’ve watched that movie a hundred times and still laugh my butt off.
In 1989-90, the last season before Jagr joined the NHL, there were 36 players with 200+ penalty minutes. Seven of them had 300+ PIM.
It’s a much different game today — and European players are a big reason for that.
I wonder what Don Cherry would say about him now.
We could all land in the clinker for this.
Oh, "big deal" Joe.
You can't put a bounty on a man's head!
I just did...(click)
“I think there are a lot of shysters in Florida.”
1970’s Broad Street Bullies.
... and their nemesis, the Boston Bruins
I remember when the Goldie Howe hat trick was popular. Dave Williams was fun...the NHL is not what it was in the 90s. In 1980s, in Philadelphia, a Flyers fan used to start a fire behind the goalie to distract the visiting goalie...
Goldie Howe did that for the late Hartford Whalers. I was a die hard hockey fan and I loved the Whalers. I’m still a hockey fan, but not as die hard as I was. Go Bolts...(My team now and the team the Whalers defeated in their last game.)
I loved when the ref wouldn’t stop warning the Hansen’s during the national anthem and one of them shouted at the ref “Shut up and listen to the f’n song”
Perhaps the best part of the video clip is around the 5:02 mark when a fan leans over the glass and gives Robinson a drink. LOL.
Old Time Hockey....Like Eddie Shore!
The statue of Orr is now in front of TD Garden.
Gary Bettman.
That all he ever gave us was the dive. On the other hand, isn’t Don dead? He might choose to say nothing! :-)
What really bothers me is the “Knights of the Round Table” culture the helmets and visors and oversized shoulder and elbow pads created in the game, starting in about the mid 1980s. High sticks and elbows and cheap shots from behind really increased at that time compared to even just ten years prior to that.
And nowadays you are getting these people like the author who want fighting banned and full cages mandatory in the NHL. If that were to take place, the NHL will be just as nasty and brutal with the cheap shot artists as US NCAA is.
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