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Originally Posted by AzNightmare
What's with this new rule?
Additional 2 minutes if players remove their helmets prior to a fight?
I always praised players who had the class act of removing helmets while squaring off. |
It's an effort to protect players heads from hitting the ice in a fight (because it happens so often :rollseyes
I see it more as a sneaky effort by the pussy, anti-violence, nanny crowd to gradually remove fighting from hockey. If enforcers are injuring their hands punching opponents helmets, you take them out of the game, at least for a while. More valuable players aren't going to want to risk injury by fighting. This could reduce the number of fights in hockey to the point that people will claim the game is starting to progress beyond the need for fighting.