Whatchu guys think....lmk if u are a hockey guy too.....so they show a fight that happened last night....it's fairly entertaining....right up until the point where you see the little girl behind the glass right where the fight is going on seems to be terrified.

While I could respect that one's ability to maintain ones balance while holding the other guys jersey with one hand and attempting to pound the other guy with the free hand while avoiding the other guy trying to do the same thing....hockey fights are really, really silly. I thought hockey fights were a thing of the past?

Primitive crap, IMO. For a game of extraordinary skill, speed, and reflex, the acceptance of two players punching each other is unfathomable to me.

I am not a hockey guy.

azgreg

My top 2 movies...Caddyshack and Slapshot.

Im a hockey player.

Love watching the old hockey fights on youtube. Search Stan Jonathan, John Wensink, Terry Oreilly, Chris Nilan....

    There are definitely less fights, but they still have their place in the game.

    I would add Bob Probert to that list. Darren Banks also, who I had the honor of playing against during a Red Wing Alumni game.

    Staged fights are about done.
    However, fighting still has a part in the game.
    When the players lose the ability to police themselves, then the game is in big trouble.

    Don't care that the little kid was terrified.
    That's a parenting issue, imo.

    Lifetime hockey guy here ( Rep hockey and Junior C)

    I live and grew up in Minnesota (The State of Hockey). I have never played hockey as hockey was, until recent years, not played in my part (SW) of the state. I do love to watch hockey though and have done so since I was quite young. I'm also not a fighter but it seems to be a long standing part of hockey and at times a necessary part of hockey. It becomes necessary (mostly) when the officials don't keep control of the game (IMO). If they don't adequately call penalties when one team (or player) goes beyond the rules to intimidate the other team or one of it's players, someone needs to stand up to them and sometimes it means that a fight has to take place. My current favorite team (Minnesota Wild) isn't a particularly large in stature team and relies on speed rather than brawn for the most part. Other teams know that and if they can't skate (keep up) with the Wild players they often resort to intimidation tactics to slow them down. Occasionally, this leads to one of the larger Wild players, often Chris Stewart, laying some heavy hits (sometimes by fighting) one of the main aggressors on the other team. In many cases it ends up at least somewhat correcting the situation. I'd rather not see the fighting be part of the game but sometimes it's either that or letting the other team do what ever they want and win the game in the process. The Wild recently traded for two players who also can stand up for their team, Martin Hanzal and Ryan White who may also help with keeping the other team from trying to intimidate and push around their new teammates. I don't expect that the Wild will now turn into the team who instigates intimidation tactics though.

    http://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/nhl-fighting-1.3523172

    Fighting continues to decline, stats in the article from last year show 1/2 the fights from 8 years prior. The increased pressure on the NHL to abolish it after several suicides in former enforcers will eventually lead to its extinction.

    I recall enjoying some of the great dust ups from the 70's , flyers games and Nordiques/Habs but that's an era long gone.

    Hockey guy for the last 4 years. I finally got smart and gave up on the NBA. Fights are part of the game and they should stay that way. They make a guy think twice before taking a cheap shot at someone.

    I enjoy watching old time hockey fights, but really it's ridiculous it's allowed . You'd be charged with assault for what's allowed in a game. But as a Detroiter, nothing was more exciting then watching Darren McCarty pummel Claude Lemieux.

    Nothing better than Boston Bruins John Wesink standing in front of the Minnesota Northstars bench calling them all out.

    I'm not sure how fights, help police the game? Enlighten me please.....refs missing cheap shots by the opposing team? I don't get it and what happens when the enforcer of the offended team gets his ass beat? Next man up until they win one? Or does the cheap shot team magically start to behave after the fight, no matter the winner?

    Seems to me it's simply an excuse to drop the gloves for the guys to scratch the itch.

      ode

      Not really many prototypical "enforcers" left anymore, mostly 4th line guys that are tough guys but can play a little.So in essence, they are the next man up guys.
      Intimidation was a big part of the game and should be, as that is part of the roots of the game itself.

      As for policing, players take cheap shots all the time ( slashes, cross checks and hits from behind) and when those guys aren't tossed in the box or out of the games, they are served notice. It usually ends it there, but sometimes it takes a good dust up or two to resolve it, in an honourable way.
      Sadly, too many star players have to fight their own battles (Sid Crosby as an example) which leaves them vulnerable to injury and the potential for missed games, so the fans ultimately lose out in the long run.
      In the days before visors, instigator rule (dumbest new rule ever, imo) anybody abusing the other teams' star player usually got a warning to quit it, or got punched in the mouth.
      Think Dave Semenko and Wayne Gretzky as one example.

        Sometimes I think I'm watching the WWE on ice with weapons! LOL