How is a staged fight going to change this?
Orr is going out in every game he plays to try and take runs at people and stir **** up.
After he has a pointless fight with Sestito, is he going to be like 'Hmm, I guess I'm going to stop doing my job and stop playing physical?' Is he scared of another fight with Sestito?
There's no logic to the whole enforcer narrative.
Orr is going to play exactly the same way whether we have a goon dressed or not. The only thing dressing a goon does is justify his existence.
Boston has more goons than anyone in the league. Did it stop John Scott from flattening Ericsson? Or Jesse Winchester from decking Chris Kelly with an elbow a couple nights ago?
I'm not going to try and guess what goes through a goon's mind when another goon is playing, but the results are evident on the ice. Your examples of John Scott and Jesse Winchester are a little ridiculous; obviously a goon isn't going to 100% stop the other team from making any dirty hits or starting things entirely. However, once it does start, a goon helps things settle down.
In a perfect, theoretical world there is no need for an enforcer. Every dirty hit gets called, the Canucks punish the opposing team on the power play which forces the opposing coach to tell his goon to settle down or plant him on the bench, and all is well. In an actual game this doesn't happen, and having a goon to counter the other goon really does settle things down.
But even if you disagree with all of this, on a purely practical level we need a player like Sestito for the simple reason that - whether this should be done or not - Kassian was having to fight the other team's plugs in response to what was happening on the ice. Sestito saves Kassian from having to do this, which I strongly support since I want Kassian to focus on becoming a strong player and on scoring, not fighting.
I agree with the idea that Sestito more or less neutralizes the opposing forwards enforcers. Despite Orr winning that fight, Sestito held his own and managed a few shots on Orr which I think hurt him. If it was any other Canuck player, they may have been demolished and potentially injured taking on Orr. I appreciated Setito's presence in that game.
The same thing happened when they played against Calgary. McGrattan was throwing his weight around and then when Sestito fought, McGrattan settled down and stopped throwing his weight around
This is exactly what I've noticed during games since we've picked up Sestito as well - it settles the other goon down.