Who hasn't stood up and screamed when attending an NHL game and watching two grown men drop their gloves, circle each other with menace and then start throwing punches?
It is reminiscent of what used to go on in elementary school playgrounds a generation or two ago. Kids would put up their dukes and fight to settle a dispute. It was a passage into junior high school or perhaps high school. But at some point it would come to an end.
Might may have made right back in the day when two prepubescents went at it, but it has nothing to do with adulthood in any walk of life—except the National Hockey League.
It's often exciting to watch a one-on-one fight when both men are evenly matched and they fight fairly. But that doesn't make it right.
There's a lot more hitting in football and you don't see guys squaring off regularly in the NFL or college football. There are a lot of nasty elbows thrown in the NBA, but it doesn't usually lead to a fight.
There's no fighting in international hockey or college hockey, but it still goes on in the NHL and it's not helping the game.
In fact, it's holding the game back. In the eyes o ...
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