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Looking At The Way The NHL Fights
by Paul on 02/04/09 at 05:15 PM ET
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from the CP via TSN,
The head of the NHL Players’ Association believes it’s time to consider a rule mandating helmet use during fights, and to examine the role of one-dimensional enforcers in the game.
While a “clear majority” of players want fighting to remain a part of hockey, Paul Kelly feels his constituency is open to new restrictions on how the gloves are dropped.
“A couple that we’ve talked about that ought to be looked at anyway is, do you consider a rule whereby players need to keep a helmet on during the course of a fight, and perhaps require officials to step in if a helmet comes off during a fight,” Kelly told reporters ahead of Wednesday’s Conn Smythe Celebrities Dinner and Auction….
Kelly, however, didn’t stop there.
Acknowledging the role fighting has in policing the tenor of play on the ice, he added that so-called “staged fights” between two players with skill sets limited to chucking knuckles may no longer have a place on the ice.
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With regard to the staged fights, just levy an ejection and one-game suspension for those players who drop the gloves right off a faceoff (e.g., Laraque vs. Ivanans). That way they’d at least have to skate a little bit.
Posted by PRC. on 02/04/09 at 05:35 PM ET