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Any wonder their league is gone?

12 posted on 11/23/2004 5:10:27 AM PST by Time is now (We'll live to see it......or something like it....)
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There's a world of difference between two enforcers fighting on the ice and a player running into the stands and fighting fans.


19 posted on 11/23/2004 5:13:15 AM PST by NittanyLion
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Are there no hockey leagues anymore?


64 posted on 11/23/2004 5:47:38 AM PST by shattered
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The league is not "gone".

There is a major difference between Bob Probert -or any hockey player- fighting another player on the ice and a hockey player running up into the stands beating the holy hell out of a fan. Hockey fights are a controlled chaos usually lasting less then a 2 minutes. Fighting is no where near as prevalent as it was in the past.

There are massive penalties for the third person into a hockey fight and even larger penalties for someone leaving the bench to join a fight. There hasn't been a bench clearing brawl in hockey since probably 1980- nearly 25 years.
147 posted on 11/23/2004 7:53:27 AM PST by retrokitten (Hell yeah!)
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