Technically, you're not supposed to fight and will get penalized at professional levels (or thrown out of the game and suspended at amateur levels), but that doesn't mean people are going to stop. It's too valuable as a tool to police the game when refs are doing a bad job, or fire up your teammates when not doing well. Fighting has reduced a LOT, like, it does not happen anywhere close to as much as it used to, but it's probably never going to go away completely.
I'm obviously ignorant of this kinda thing... But I thought that they were cracking down on hockey fights due to long-term brain damage.
Technically, you're not supposed to fight and will get penalized at professional levels (or thrown out of the game and suspended at amateur levels), but that doesn't mean people are going to stop. It's too valuable as a tool to police the game when refs are doing a bad job, or fire up your teammates when not doing well. Fighting has reduced a LOT, like, it does not happen anywhere close to as much as it used to, but it's probably never going to go away completely.
cops inherently cannot suffer brain damage
It’s true, more and more people are saying this
NHL fights are not as violent as this anymore, usually it’s just a few light punches and holding.
The tagline for 50 More Shades of Grey just dropped.