(1) "You neglected to mention the artistry and surgical skill European hockey players demonstrate by removing an opponents spleen with their hockey sticks."
(2) "As compared to the neanderthalic tendencies of North American players clubbing each others vacuous craniums."
"I was watching a street fight one time when a hockey game broke out."
Hockey should just merge with MMA and be done with it.
Shouldn’t this be posted on a Sports Illustrated site?
We need to bring back old time hockey. Toe Blake, Eddie Shore.
First of all the amount of fighting in US hockey has decreased. Second its fun to watch a fight now and then.
I think its great and it sure beats teaching our boys to be pansies.
“What kind of legitimate sport has “enforcers” — whose mission is to engage other “enforcers” in the sort of activity that would get regular people arrested if they did it outside of a bar?”
I agree about the enforcers. It’s too bad they have to have them. The fact remains however that watching Zetterberg and Datsyuk work together is like watching poetry in motion and I believe you are missing a good game if you cannot stomach a few rumbles. What I hate is when the enforcers target the skill players and try to take them out.
The Wings had to sign guys who could protect them.
Yup
maybe we should reexamine the century-old boys-will-be-boys idea that hockey games should be periodically stopped so that certain designated players can engage in medieval combat for the benefit of drunken fans?
Why stop there, just drag two drunken fans to middle ice give them sticks and let the dogs of hockey free.
“What kind of legitimate sport has “enforcers” — whose mission is to engage other “enforcers”
It’s a dimension used for psy ops . But you knew that . If you want to make some negative observations on or about the game we can start with the goaltending rules .
Well, they must show up drunk, if they really are. At $8.00 apiece, nobody's getting ripped on Arena beer.
I speak from experience.
Politics comes to mind.
“No touch” icing is for pansies.
But the real problem isn’t idiots like Roy. It is that the hockey world has created a bizarre culture in which the idea of taking off your gauntlets and getting into fistfights with your opponent is considered a “normal” part of the game.
Capitalism bootcamp has taught me that the market was ready to be tapped into . In other words if the fans want to celebrate this sort of thing , the better question to ask is “ What kind of social order do we have when the public accepts it “ ?
Voyerism is as old as gladiator school and Canada as a whole did not market the product well enough to keep it as a product of Canada .
The end zones on N.A. rinks are deeper than European rinks and thus negate the width difference.
While on-ice fighting has been severely curtailed with appropriate penalties handed out, it is still a necessary part of the game.
Anyone who cringes at the thought of the dropping of the gloves should switch their attention to figure skating.........
The sport has already been ruined by the ridiculous interference rules. There is no real defense played anymore. It’s like watching an NBA game. And don’t get me started on shootouts...
I just luv Center Ice in HD on DTV; money well spent. I also have a brother-in-law who has never been to a game, yet hates hockey over something he doesn’t even get or understand.
I'd prefer to watch an Olympic gold medal round game than a Stanley Cup finals any day.
Ok, you write that you are a pansy (I was thinking of another word beginning with P).
Note that I have just dropped my gloves and given you the look. You are undoubtly turtling as I write.
;-)