How is the Simmonds example dumb? Your telling me Simmonds is someone people in the league should fear? That's a joke. The whole point of it is, that having someone that will 100% retaliate with no questions asked will lower the chances of teams targeting Hughes or our young guys (as happened today) will you be satisfied when Hughes gets destroyed one day & misses half a year or more to injury? As of this very moment our team is completely spineless. The fact it's completely acceptable to just let your stars get laid out is a recipe for disaster. Teams will pick up on this & do it even more knowing we won't do anything. I'm not even saying to goon up the team. I would never do what the rangers did. But having 1 player who can do the dirty work if need be will not hurt the team by any means. Its 1 roster spot. By the fact of us having someone who can lay people out it sends message to the other coach by saying if you target our stars then we'll target yours. Trust me the coaches know this. They don't want their stars being targeted either so it becomes a mutual respect thing. You think it was a coincidence Hughes got laid out 5 times today? They knew we weren't gonna do anything so why not stop until they do damage (which they eventually did). You think this would work in the playoffs? We might be skilled, and we might be big, but we're soft as pillows.