re: Your STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS: Vegas Golden Knights

There was a scrap in the Rangers/Devils series the other night. But fighting has been down for years.

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This is my first year really watching hockey, are you not allowed/frowned upon to actually fight in the playoffs?

I haven’t seen anyone throw off gloves yet?

Is that a playoff thing?

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Did you watch the games earlier on in the series? There were certainly a few fights. You can fight all you want, but you do take yourself out of the game for 5 minutes and risk hurting your hands.

Now that we are in game 6's and next game 7's you it's more unlikely to happen. Especially in tight games.

Fighting isn't as common anymore because they have to wear the visors now (except for some older guys who were grandfathered in). Those visors can cut the shite out of your hand. Plus you get an extra 2 minute penalty if you take off your own helmet before the fight. Gary Bettman is an awful commissioner.

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When Ken Campbell was still with The Hockey News, he wanted to ban fighting altogether.

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Can you think of a dumber way to market the NHL?

Take someone who knows basically nothing to even a very minor league hockey game and there's a good chance a fight will get them excited.

The big hits and fights are what draw in people who have never watched hockey, the casual fans and turn them into bigger fans. Then they start to appreciate the rest of the game once they start to learn the rules and such.

Bandit should watch some highlights from the Wings/Avs rivalry back in the late 90s/early 00s. Those games were AWESOME.

Bet you he would love the goalie fights with Osgood/Vernon and Roy.

That goal

Goalie tried to get aggressive with that pass on the PP. Oops.

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Bandit should watch some highlights from the Wings/Avs rivalry back in the late 90s/early 00s. Those games were AWESOME. Bet you he would love the goalie fights with Osgood/Vernon and Roy.

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I was watching that exact thing when you posted this

shite was incredible

Heck, the start of the rivalry (Draper hit and the first all-out brawl) is what really got me into hockey as a young Wings fan (at like age 6) and eventually convincing my Dad to let me try the sport out myself. He started like it more and more too. Soon enough I was in learn to skate. Expensive arse sport

I would just change my name to Mike or Doug.

Bump for TWO game 7’s tonight…..

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There was a scrap in the Rangers/Devils series the other night. But fighting has been down for years.

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Steven Stamkos and Austin Matthews fought each other in one of the Lightning-Maple Leafs playoff games.