>>938242 (last bread)
RIP to those Junior players.
Hockey is the only sport I follow. Why? Because traditionally, the players police themselves. You want to take a cheap shot? You deal with an enforcer. Actions are met with consequence. A Man's game. With few exceptions, you don't have players who think they're above other players or their teammates like in almost all other professional sports. Players who get uppity usually get stomped out… sometimes by their own teammates. Fighting in hockey isn't about goonery. It's about the players policing themselves.
I feel like the push to take fighting out of hockey in recent years has been perpetrated by the same people who are pushing for the pussification of America's men. Evildoers hate the thought that American men might think that's it OK to stand up for themselves and others physically. Just like they hate the thought of us standing up for ourselves with firearms.