Who was picking? I don't even set the channel on the TV in front of me at my gym. I'd say it's odds-on that there will be an NHL fight highlight tomorrow while I'm riding my bike for a half hour. As for the comparison with the NBA, I don't really want to be defending the NBA (which I consider to be a joke) but it is a little more difficult for hockey players to get to where the fans are than it is for the basketball players. Anyway, you know the issue isn't fights between fans and players. It's between the players themselves.
ML/NJ
League average right now is down to just a little under two fighting majors per game, since it takes two to tango two fighting majors in a game means there was one fight. And the reality probably a third of games have no fights at all, that slack gets taken up by what we call the “chippy” games the ones with three or four fights. So will there be a fight in the highlight reals tomorrow, probably, does that mean there’s a lot of fighting in the game, no.