Hockey normally only makes the news here in Australia once a year, whenever a new Stanley Cup champion is crowned. So this article, published on our largest online news site, caught my eye:
Disgusting fights have to stop ASAP
It's just a re-print of an opinion piece originally published in the NY Post, which some of you may have seen, about the recent fight in the AHL between ex-Bruin Colby Cave and an opposition player, calling for an end to all fights in the game.
But the fact it was deemed worthy of publication half-way around the world is suggestive of how out-of-step with the times ritualised hockey fights now are, and is the kind of bad press I'm guessing the NHL is keen to avoid. For better or worse I think the days of the fight are numbered, and I think the league is enforcing this more and more, even though they haven't yet made it official or public, by having the refs jump in to break skirmishes up any time anything even looks like getting serious.
Disgusting fights have to stop ASAP
It's just a re-print of an opinion piece originally published in the NY Post, which some of you may have seen, about the recent fight in the AHL between ex-Bruin Colby Cave and an opposition player, calling for an end to all fights in the game.
But the fact it was deemed worthy of publication half-way around the world is suggestive of how out-of-step with the times ritualised hockey fights now are, and is the kind of bad press I'm guessing the NHL is keen to avoid. For better or worse I think the days of the fight are numbered, and I think the league is enforcing this more and more, even though they haven't yet made it official or public, by having the refs jump in to break skirmishes up any time anything even looks like getting serious.
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