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Hockey Fighting!

mr-nipples
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Okay so i'm from the UK and I've never seen hockey, I was watching the trailer to the new NHL game and I didn't realise fighting was a critical part of the game!

I love the 'I've just punched you in the face but we're still mates' approach! What do you folks think about it?

I think I might start watching hockey!

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I have to see a whoopin, Hockey is not Hockey without a couple of teeth missing :D

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It kinda makes up for not being able to see the puck on TV, I do like hockey, not enough of it on TV (non sky) in the UK.

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Shouldn't this be in the new "Off-topic" section?

 

OT: I have never seen hockey and I probably never will :)

I dunno, I know linus likes hockey and this is his forum ;)

Could you imagine moving to another team and fighting your previous team mates? Ruthless!

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I'm also from the uk and from the little ice hockey ive seen it looks like you can hit anyone with anything apart from a hockey stick.

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Fighting is very valuable in hockey to regulate the atmosphere. Hockey is a very physical game and tensions build quickly. Fighting is a way to control the atmosphere. After a fight, players have one focus: play hard and win. Personal vendettas are dropped and it truly becomes an intense hockey game.

 

Now I should mention that this goes through all levels of hockey, not just professional levels.

 

Now that is why fighting has been left in hockey since pre-helmet days. Now it seems to be for crowd morale more than anything in professional hockey.

I did a research paper on this awhile back. I learnt a lot from interviews of older and current players, spectators, and officials.

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I don't play hockey, but love watching it. I'm a red wings fan and you should have seen how brutal their rivalry with the Avalanche was in the 90's and early 2000's. Fighting used to be a huge part of the game, but now it is starting to go down a bit because of all the rules and referee involvement put in place to "protect players".

 

This is where the rivalry started. Skip to 1:13

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9fPTIeUmx4

 

 

This is where the red wings got their payback in one of the most brutal games. Skip to 35:10

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp5HzFHaar4

 

 

These are the top 10 moments.

 

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYCT-nJH894

 

 

This is the interview of Lemieux and Mccarty 13 years after the height of the rivalry.

 

Part one:

 

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

 

Part two:

 

 

Part three:

 

 

Part four:

 

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