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Dick Duff On Fighting Today
by Paul on 01/24/09 at 12:41 PM ET
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from Joe O’Connor of the National Post,
“I flip off the TV whenever there is a fight,” he says. “The guys that fight now, they are guys that can’t play. They are only there for that reason, and I am not interested in watching it. And I am not interested in some Sluggo, on television, telling me that this sort of stuff was always part of hockey. Yeah, right: it was always in hockey. But the Sluggos, they do not know the other part of it.”
By Sluggos, Duff is referring to the in-studio experts, like Mad Mike Milbury, who does not want to “see hockey ‘pansy-fied’ and given to the granola people.” There are other experts, who never even played the damn game. There are owners, whose only interest is selling tickets and watching a crowd get to its feet when the fists fly, and the blood begins to flow. And there are the general managers—who draft that kid who is 6-foot-5 and can barely skate—and coaches that, a few years later, have that same kid sitting on the end of their bench for one reason only.
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