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I like the speed and playmaking focus much more than the overly physical, injury-inducing play of the past.
Much more enjoyable to see impressive player formations on all ends of the ice.
I miss the fights, I aint gonna lie. The days of Domi, Brashear, Laraque, Boogaard, etc, are long gone, but I still enjoy watching their highlights to this very day.
An occasional "drop the gloves and exchange a few blows" for 30 seconds doesn't bother me all that much. It's stuff like the line brawls, for example, when Emery went after Holtby and really, for all intents, assaulted him. There was no reason, it was vicious and unprovoked and the league did nothing about it.
There's still plenty of fighting in the NHL. I subscribe to the HockeyFights.com YouTube channel and it's updated with new videos daily. The arranged goon fights are on the death bed, if not already passed, but I don't see how anyone can think fighting is gone from the league.
If the expansion that is talked about in 2017 occurs, you will see more fighting as it will take those new teams a while to come up to the level of play.
So some of the fights are arranged? I really didn't know that, what is their reason?
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