Wondering why fights are shorter and refs are breaking them all up?, read below.
Department Of Player Safety sent down an unannounced mandate to all officials and linesmen. They are to now break up and or stop a fight when a player loses his helmet. This is all more player safety concern crap over head injuries. Bottom line is fighting is down over 50% from 5 years ago and now there are so many rules in place to prevent or stop fighting that it's nearly fully banned. Let's glance to hits now, with more and more big hits stopping play and generating penalties regardless of rule violation. Nearly all big hits or violent looking ones now are instant ejections and game misconducts. If you are wondering why, ONCE AGAIN it's due to concern for Concussions and CTE. The NHL wants to eliminate ANY play that could lead to a concussion, because they cause CTE. And they think slowly removing fighting will increase player safety. Guess what?. Over 70% of all concussions in the NHL come from hits. Enforcement and " The Code " and fighting in hockey has been around for over 100 years and is a part of the game whether some softy new fans like it or not. The NHL has nearly lost all it's grit and tenacity and emotion. And now all of it's physical play is being sterilized as well. And they wonder why the stands are empty. Jesus Christ the NHL is play doe soft, and I bet within a decade it will be a stick checking only league. RIP Tough hockey.
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Ferland won, glad he got tripped up cause if he didin't he would still be feeding Boro
How did Ferland get the extra 2 when Boro tried to take his head off with a shove? lol what a joke
Wondering why fights are shorter and refs are breaking them all up?, read below.
Department Of Player Safety sent down an unannounced mandate to all officials and linesmen. They are to now break up and or stop a fight when a player loses his helmet. This is all more player safety concern crap over head injuries. Bottom line is fighting is down over 50% from 5 years ago and now there are so many rules in place to prevent or stop fighting that it's nearly fully banned. Let's glance to hits now, with more and more big hits stopping play and generating penalties regardless of rule violation. Nearly all big hits or violent looking ones now are instant ejections and game misconducts. If you are wondering why, ONCE AGAIN it's due to concern for Concussions and CTE. The NHL wants to eliminate ANY play that could lead to a concussion, because they cause CTE. And they think slowly removing fighting will increase player safety. Guess what?. Over 70% of all concussions in the NHL come from hits. Enforcement and " The Code " and fighting in hockey has been around for over 100 years and is a part of the game whether some softy new fans like it or not. The NHL has nearly lost all it's grit and tenacity and emotion. And now all of it's physical play is being sterilized as well. And they wonder why the stands are empty. Jesus Christ the NHL is play doe soft, and I bet within a decade it will be a stick checking only league. RIP Tough hockey.
A lot of emotion and every but not a lot of skill. Few punches landed and little balance.
Borowiecki looks tough, but he’s a wuss. He’s nothing. Next.
Still can’t post all fights in one video…
thumbs down….
Look at this amazing job
https://youtu.be/bikorUu2250
Borowiecki being the usual league punching. Nothing new here.
I must say Carolina has some nice jerseys.