Can "Fighting is bad for the sport" now be dispelled?

[Sasha Orlov]

Yeah with this thinking we might as well bring back the colosseum in Rome huh?

Unironically a good idea

 

[Milhouse40]

Hockey is pretty much the only sports with fights.
Happened very rarely in other teams sports....Soccer, Baseball, Football, Basketball.....not really happening.

I don't think hockey needs fights more than any other sports to be enterntaining.

Having said that, blows to the head are bad for the players themselves so it's pretty much up to them. They are the ones paying the prices of our enterntainment.

I like a good fight but I still think they are dumb as hell, especially when they are staged.

These guys are hitting the helmet 80% of the time, getting blows to the head, there's razor sharp skates involve, hard cold slippery ice.....I mean, it's like worst sports to actuallly pick up a fight.

 

[Miller Time]

Every single person is talking about the fights at the start of the game. There are some fans (who are entitled to their opinion) who believe fighting is from a bygone era, and they are wrong IMO. Fighting (and big hits) are the best marketing tool the NHL has.

If the NHL was smart, they would start including hits/fights in their game summary highlights again. Whoever made that call to remove them is wrong.

How many fights in
NFL
MLB
NBA
March Madness


Check their ratings vs NHL.

There's your answer.