tacogeoff
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It is when it very rarely happens and you have an undying hatred for Courtland Finnegan.
Lol this is true forgot you were a Houston fan
It is when it very rarely happens and you have an undying hatred for Courtland Finnegan.
Whether on not hockey is a "pansy" sport has nothing to do with fighting in it.
Neither football, nor rugby would be considered pansy sports.
Fighting in hockey has had its day and it's time for it to be removed. Especially BS staged fights between team goons.
Players removing their helmets prior to fighting adds to the possibility of a major head injury. Hands heal.
and thats why in football you have players chirping, wining, and complaining all the time
if something goes on, players can resolve it with fists, and get back to the game
and football has fights, the players just slap each others helmets and push each other(fist fight makes way more sense)
Most of the players known for chirping, whining, and complaining very rarely fight.
As for thing "engraved" into hockey.
I never thought I would see the day that the two line pass rule was removed since it was engraved in how hockey was played.
I didnt see a time when helmets became mandatory.
I didn't see a time when visor became mandatory but it is going to happen.
I didnt see a time when wooden sticks were no longer used.
I'll admit that I am entertained when a fight breaks out but I just think it's day has come and gone.
Putting a rule into effect where five fighting majors gave a player a automatic 10 game suspension and a hefty fine to the team would go a long way to eliminating staged fights.
Emotional, spur of the moment fights, between actual hockey players could still happen.
tonights fight and the outcome of the game.....
Well, our gifted fourth liner Anthony Peluso is still absent since sustaining a broken bone in his right hand after it landed squarely on Aaron Volpatti's head on March 2nd. We should specify that the incident occurred as he and Volpatti were involved in an on-ice fistfight, which basically consists of two guys on skates, flailing their arms randomly through the air, trying to connect with something vaguely resembling flesh. Of course, seeing as the two fighters are also attempting to pull their opponent's jersey over their head, and given that, as previously mentioned, they are both on skates, the odds of landing a punch on anything resembling flesh are somewhat slim. The odds of striking something hard and unforgiving, however, are significantly higher. A few of these objects come to mind easily - the boards, the ice, a helmet, bone... and I'm sure there are many more of them out there if were to put our collective heads together and think about it a bit more...
The game of hockey consists mostly of the act of using your hands to guide a stick, which in turn ushers a small rubber disc into tiny openings leading into a net. If other sports are games of inches, hockey is a game of millimetres. The dexterity which is necessary to score a goal is impressive, sometimes astonishing. One would think that hockey players value, above anything else... their fingers! And yet, guys like Peluso flail their arms randomly through the air on a daily basis, attempting to strike that elusive flesh, and jeopardizing the very things that makes them good at this game: their hands. The Jets captain also fought this month, as did other goal scorers in the Jets line up - fighting, you see, is not an exclusive domain of the dumb brutes on the ice, but "part of the game", as we are often reminded.
This of course leads to many questions, but I won't bore you with all of them. Could someone just simply explain to me who is more clueless: the hockey player who willingly smashes the one thing that makes him good at his craft squarely into inanimate objects that are built with the exact goal of being as unyielding as possible, or the scores of fans in the stands cheering for this spectacle?
I won't compare apples to oranges other than to ask another very simple question: why do you think NFL receivers do not randomly and willingly crush their hands into the helmets of defensive backs when they get a little irate? Could it be that these gifted athletes from across the border know something that boys growing up in the Canadian Prairies do not??
I just wish that proponents of the sanctity of Canada's favourite sport also understood the idiocy behind some of its most sacrosanct traditions.
and thats why in football you have players chirping, wining, and complaining all the time
if something goes on, players can resolve it with fists, and get back to the game
and football has fights, the players just slap each others helmets and push each other(fist fight makes way more sense)
tonights fight and the outcome of the game.....
Yeah, there is no doubt that a fight between two AHL scrubs changed the outcome of the game for the Jets
Yeah, there is no doubt that a fight between two AHL scrubs changed the outcome of the game for the Jets
well the score reflects my point
well the score reflects my point
If people want (haven't found it yet, maybe someone else can)...
There has been long term research that was done on NHL games looking at shots and goals within a timeframe after a fight. (I think it was Gabriel Desjardins or mc79hockey but not sure)
I can summarize even though I haven't found it yet:
*shots and goals did increase somewhat afterwards
*it was completely random in which team gained the boost and had no correlation to winning the fight or the score before hand
*there has been no correlation to a team's number of fights and wins (another study showed the same to hits)
*there is a (weak) correlation to number of team's fighting majors and injuries, in that team's that fight more tend to experience more man-games lost to injuries
I've said it before, but I view it like pulling the goalie. There's a risk and a reward.
When you pull the goalie, you risk an easy goal for having another forward to help create offensive opportunities.
When you fight for energy, you risk energizing the other team or injury to your player to create the chance for team energy.