Should fighting be allowed in IIHF hockey games?

[WayTooCold]

Fighting is allowed in the NHL. Why not to allow in IIHF as well? Well you can fight in IIHF but your'e tossed out of the game. heck, even allow women and juniors to drop the mitts.
We would have a few rough if not goons in the Canadian team to protect our high skill players. No more slashing or dirty plays. There would be more fans as well, see how popular mma is atm.

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[Mr. Met]

IIHF is protecting the soft euros

 

[Mathieukferland]

Yes, fighting is an integral part of the game

 

[Prntscrn]

Hockeyallsvenskan (Swedish second tier) wants to implement a bunch of NHL rules for next season, among those allow fighting is one.

 

[JackSlater]

Yes it would make the product better. I'd still expect fighting to be very limited though.

 

[Eye of Ra]

Yes

 

[Statsy]

I’m a definitive no on that. They say it gets rid of the cheap stick fouls but it doesn’t. NHL has more of that bullshit than International. As for the entertainment value, people in the building do tend to like it, but it turns off a lot of the fans you are trying to recruit to the game. People think it’s bush league. In the NHL these days they even jump a guy after he does a clean hit. WTF?

 

[Pavel Buchnevich]

Without a doubt

 

[Strummer53]

In IIHF hockey, what's the point of fighting?
I don't even think it has a place in NA hockey anymore.

 

[ORRFForever]

No.

 

[TheBeastCoast]

Yeah sure. I think womens hockey should be full contact too.

 

[Hanji]

U18 and U20? No
Worlds? Why not.
Womens? No

 

[Leafshater67]

I don’t know why it’s not. It’s our game, we invented it and it should be played by our rules

 

[Hanji]

see how popular mma is atm.

I doubt allowing fighting in IIHF events will attract many MMA fans.

Hockey fighting is awful. No talent whatsoever. It's a joke compared to actual combat sports.

 

[Crosby2010]

Yes.
The thing that really put the WJC on the map was the Piestany Punch-Up in 1987. We still talk about it. Allow the fights, it doesn't mean you'll see a bench clearer, but just do what the NHL does and give a 5 minute major. By the way, no one allows fighting. There is a penalty for it even in the NHL. You just don't get banned over it. I am more for the players policing themselves than suits.