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Goons No Longer Needed
by Paul on 12/27/07 at 08:54 AM ET
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from the National Post,
Enforcers have become about as essential to hockey as spittoons are to hotel lobbies.
The National Hockey League long ago removed from the players the ability to police themselves. And, despite the vastly overrated debate, the instigator rule has less to do with that than the blanket monitoring of every game that makes it impossible to goon with impunity.
The instigator penalty is two minutes. The suspension for someone like Boogaard, say, speed-bagging Naslund would be several games. Players don’t have to fight. And they wouldn’t have to if the instigator rule was rescinded.
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