>>677888010
Do you watch hockey you pussclot?

>>677888010
True hockey fans understand.
The amount of adrenalin pumping through those guys in unbelievable.
Fighting is a 100% necessary part of the sport.

Op is a retard, hockey is pretty brutal so people who play it tend to get pissed quickly, they let fights happen to relieve all the stress and tension they feel during a game, plus its not like they beat the tar out of each other , refs stop them once they fall to the ice, and its not like they aren't penalized after for having snapped and reacted in a violent manner

>>677888128
Not my cup of tea, but the fact that there's a fucking website for Hockey Fights is pretty crazy imo

>>677888772
There's websites for hobo fights and skateboarder fights too I bet.

Not that crazy imo

>>677888010
It's one of those it's how the league/culture is.
> no real punishment for fighting outside of penalties
> if you don't like someone one just either slam his ass into the wall or throw down
> fighting isn't frowned upon but encouraged by crowds

>>677888888

>>677888010
nah. people fight in every sport. but it's the they that sport handles it is what separate it from regular sports

>>677888680
That's such a bullshit reason, athletes participating in an organized sport shouldn't start wailing on the other nearest them because "they feel stressed"

The biggest penalty in major league hockey right now is 5 minutes for fighting, that's nothing and obviously isn't discouraging enough to stop future fights

>>677888010
Op is not only a pussy, but the obligatory faggot as well. Get your skates, I'll get you to throw a punch in 30 seconds. Then I will question your mother's lineage.

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>>677888010
You're a fucking retard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fER1AOL49Ss

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>>677888010
It doesn't happen enough anymore.

>>677889594
The league fines them too.

>>677889594
Slap a puck around for and hour getting smashed into skating around on ice and not get stressed out to the point where where hitting the next guy that checks you sounds like a really good idea

>>677889093
I'm sure culture plays a part into it, but any rational hockey league manager, ref and committee would see that only trouble comes out of it (players getting disabled from playing, etc.) and would try and do something about the current rule-set

But you're right, the crowd loves it, and sometimes will come expecting to see a fight, hence bringing the sport money and attention, hence the conspiracy.

Fights aren't even that prevalent anymore. There were way more fights in the NHL 10 years ago. Its the rules. Same reason no one gts hurt on icing calls now BC of the pussy no-touch icing.

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OP is one giant faggot.

As a matter of fact, fighting has declined over the years.

You're down a quick two goals in the first period and you need the crowd back in it? You send out a Bob Probert, Joey Kocur, or Tie Domi. They beat the shit out of someone and everyone is back in the game.

I miss Old Time Hockey!

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>>677888010
Maybe you're just talking about something that you know nothing about.

Unless you've played OHL (or equivalent) level hockey (or higher level) than you wouldn't understand.

It's not a conspiracy.

One of the best series to ever take place in hockey was back in the 70's. NHL vs USSR Series. Two different philosophies battling each other. Brute force vs Finesse.

lol big hits are penalized and fined now. there's not that much fighting. you're dumb as fuck.

>>677889594
They dont just fight who ever is closest with them stupid tard its with who they have the issue with ..go watch some curling faggot

>>677891634
I miss Marty!!! He fucked up whoever he wanted!

>>677890921
Mostly mentioned conspiracy as hyperbole, but sure, maybe I just don't understand hockey was well as I should.

Only stepped on the ice a few times in my life.

enforcers are used to protect the star players, a player will think twice about giving a dirty hit on an elite player if they think some goon will try to knock him out his next shift.

>>677890167
>The league fines them too.
not often

>>677888680
You're as retarded as OP. The fights are not because players "snap" in the heat of the moment. The fights are rigidly coded behaviour. "Don't body check our star forward" "Get the fuck away from the goalie" shit like that. If the players really were worked up, they'd use their motherfucking sticks and/or skates to fuck shit up. Instead, they drop the gloves and have fisticuffs like Victorian gentlemen. You sir, are a stupid cunt not to see it, and an insult to hockey fandom.

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>>677891761
Dude was mean as fuck

>>677891761
I beg to differ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4Bfs0mUTc

>>677891946
Wouldn't players think twice about giving a dirty hit if they ran the risk of being completely ejected from the game?

If the "risk of getting knocked out" approach worked, there wouldn't be any more fighting by now

>>677892546
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4Bfs0mUTc
it was only a matter of time

>>677891964
I saw 2 fines from the lightning - rangers game tonight. Just admit you'd rather be fucked in the ass by >9000 dicks than play a man's sport.

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>>677891936
Take Duncan Keith's recent suspension for example;

>star player
>swings his stick at another player's face
>not the first time he's done it
>very obviously did it on purpose
>only 6 games left in the season
>gets 7 game suspension
>only misses 1 playoff game

So is that really fair? He could have ended that guy's career by blinding him for no good reason. If I'm a player on Minessota you can bet that the next time we play Chicago I'm going to try to beat the shit out of him.

The league doesn't protect its players for fear of revenue loss so the players have to take it into their own hands sometime. The end goal (in this example) is to maybe throw Keith off his game or take him out of the game for at least 5 minutes.

Now, each example differs, but this is just one example.

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>>677888010
>Does anybody else here think >conspiracy designed

Nope, because critical thinking is fun.

>>677888010
all sports rivalries are rigged to some extent. people love conflict.

>>677892546
Fuck yeah! Probert was a monster!

>>677888010
OP is such a dumb person

Fighting is just part of the game. Most times (unless a player actually done some fucked up shit) they aren't actually that mad at each other. They stop fighting voluntarily after they can tell it's over, and are often seen telling each other good fight.

>>677888010
Well, they aren't working, clearly. Have you ever seen a televised NHL game that was sold out? Or even one that wasn't in a half-full arena?

>>677892598
I would rather get ejected from the game then get my ass kicked by a goon or maybe even start a line brawl

If i get ejected no biggie i did my job the coach is happy the team is happy i get to take a nap

If i dont then i get into fight, get target for big hits maybe even get hurt

So yea fighting is a big deal in hockey also some players do fight cuz they get all pissy its a mixture of the code and "fuck u, u keep hitting me faggit"0

>>677888010
OP you clearly have never played a single hockey game in your pathetic life.

Am I wrong?

>>677892777
Nice trips

>>677892876
>no good reason
Coyle pulled his legs out from under him with his stick. pretty much slewfooted him. that didn't justify the stick to the face, but whatever, well deserved 6 games off for Keith.

>>677893515
pussy

>>677888680
You're pretty fucking retarded there yourself, fella. Hockey fighting goes back to the beginning of the sport when the players policed themselves on the ice. In the early nineties the instigator rule was introduced and destroyed the chemistry of everything by trying to make it more palatable to the average sports fan. While still constructive, hockey fighting is nothing like it used to be.

>>677893777
Fuck ur trips

No im just saying y fighting is needed in the sport retard

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Thank you /b/ for understanding the game. Too many people don't.

>I never expected this reaction to OP. Thank you my fellow neck beards.

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>>677893653
>slewfooted him
yeah i think permanently blinding him is the appropriate response.

>>677892598
>>677893515
see>>677892876
what happens when it's a star player that commits and ejectable offence? you think the NHLPA is going to stand for that?

>>677891634
>>677891761
>I wanted to fight him
>FUCKING TWO-HAND SLASHES DONALD BRASHEAR IN THE HEAD, KNOCKING HIM OUT COLD

Damn, late 90's-early 2000's was fucking brutal

Also:

Guess who this is:

>muh I don't like this pussy-ass, since I have probably 100 pounds on him I'll do one of the dirtiest moves in the history of the league
>Imma grab his shirt by behind and give him the hardest right hook to the temple then slam his goddamn fave into the ice with all of my weight as he is knocked out
>WHAT A GREAT IDEA

>>677893777
You know that my opinion on it is to just keep raising the penalty until there is no more fighting.

If a player kicks another player's ass, wouldn't the team of the player who got ass-kicked want to fuck up the guy who gave it to him? Cyclical violence tbh, if there's harsher penalties they can't punch the rules

>>677894106
Todd "Go to Sleep" Bertuzzi

>>677888010
Why are people so afraid of fighting now a days. You millennial cunts are so weak.

>>677888010
I don't know if this has been stated or not, and I'm not entirely sure how genuine your question is....BUT

There is a role within hockey titled "bruiser/goon/enforcer/etc" that essentially bullies opposing teams and also protects their own teams stars.

The point is to rattle the cage of the other team by delivering a lot of hits (scott stevens is a prime example)

Also, typically teams have one of these types of players on a certain line to either go head to head with the opposing teams brute or to bully around a high skilled player.

Most fights are often agreed upon between the two players at a face off or in the chat of the "mob" like jams when a bunch of players group together.

This can achieve a crowd or moral swing for a team. or to go back to the protection aspect.. if you are a bruiser, and your star player gets wrecked, you're the player to go fight whoever did the damage.

It's a vital role in hockey, and yes is decently contrived, but it is typically for a purpose.

That's not to say some fights aren't just bad blood or a frustration from the course of the game.. because certainly this happens.

However, i think it's a dying role within the NHL and needs to be reinstated with more relevance. I miss the Scott Stevens, Adam Foote, Zdeno Chara, Rob Blake, Chris Nilan, Tie Domi, Donald Brashear, etc..

Sorry it's long.. Blame the booze. Hope this makes sense to you and it gives some clarity.

Protip:

For awesome hockey discussion, game threads and the best fucking memes of all 4chan, visit /hoc/ generals and gamethreads on /sp/

True hockey fans will someday thank the random /hasb/ fan who watches the games by himself at the corner bar in Montreal and gets drunk on goos local beer and high on DANK MEMES

>>677894037
not even a hockey fan.

I miss dough "the thug" glatt

>>677894357
Nothing wrong with fighting, but I expect that in boxing or any other contact-focused sport. A major league sport based on hitting a puck into a net while on ice should have a more legit system of rules and regulations.

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>>677894106

>bought these last year. tag inside bares the name.

>>677894100
>didnt justify the stick to the face.
I didn't say it was the appropriate response. did he go blind? no. it's all good.

>>677890226
It's like dunks at an NBA game. Crowd loves it but it's troublesome on player body's. Rose tearing ACL, another dude snapping his leg.
In hockey rarely does anyone get seriously hurt from fights or lose a player for more than a game or so.

>>677894324
Allright, you got it.

Now a harder one:

>this guy pissed me off
>he's laying down on the ice and he DARES to slash me?
>Better give him a two handed slash across the head and knock him out so he's convulsing on the ice!
>forgive english and drunken rage, I am russia

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>>677894595

Try me.

>snipe twine pound gine

>>677894357
I don't necessarily believe it's a fear. I think it's more due to the development of the game. Goalie pads are bigger than ever, and also goaltenders themselves are more and more technical and athletic...making a skilled offense more and more important. IE.. less enforcing, and more dangles. The speed and style of the NHL has become so much faster and precise, that goons are becoming less of a commodity.. Granted, I don't think this is a good thing, but it is more of a "evolution" of the game than a fear. IMO anyway.

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>>677894289
It's not cyclical because 97% of the players know exactly who started what and who deserves what. The Bruins would literally not be able to finish a game if they fought every time someone gave Marchand shit for being a pest. They know he can handle himself.

>>677894404
This guys is on the money.

"Fighters" are a dying breed of hockey players. Now power forwards have to do all of the fighting. Your 4th line is no longer a goon line. It's the penalty kill/puck suppression line.

>>677894740
k.

>>677894446
Goos local beer. I like the sound of that

>>677893456
I don't think I've ever seen a game outside the sun belt that had less than 3/4 seats filled. Maybe it's because I watch the Canadiens and the Hawks, but I rarely see empty arenas

>>677894289
not if they were fighting. it's not like players just start hitting unwilling participants. if two players fight, it usually ends there, unless they want to go again. if you do some dirty shit, you bet your ass the other team is going to be looking for you on the ice, and they're usually always willing to pay the price. it's all consensual sex out there.

>>677894851
Sasha Perezogon or whatever. Calder cup incident,

>>677895260


Thank you, haha.
Miss me some goon lines.

>>677895401
Fuck mate, I must have had too much beer (the habs were playing tonight)

I meant GOOD local beer.

(Coup de Grisou = Jesus entering your mouth)

>>677888010
>This shit happens way too often to be legit.

I don't think you watch hockey that much. Fight barely happen now. Unless you talk about roughhousing or scuffles, it never happens. The league's brought the hammer down hard on fighting since 2005

>>677895756
Breddy gud bud

>>677888010
I think it's just part of the fun like going to watch Nascar to see the crashes.

>>677889594
>The biggest penalty in major league hockey right now is 5 minutes for fighting

Nope.
Any headshots/boardings (or stepping out of the penalty box before the penalty is over, stepping on the ice for a fight or trying to break a fight) are 10 minutes game misconduct with an ejection and automatic suspension before the hearing with the player's safety department.

I don't think you know anything about hockey outside of movies.

>>677889594
Wrong. 10 minute game misconduct is.

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This is now a hockey trivia thread;

Q#1
>one of the highest scoring Swedes of all time
>fuck Scott Neidermayer
>imma shoot the puck at him with 1s left on the clock

Q#2
>erotic sounding name
>supposed to be playing hockey
>playing Donkey Kong Jungle Beat instead

>>677890000
Nice quads

>>677898066
Forseberg

>>677898066
Q1 = Donald Alfredsson

Q2 = no fucking clue mate

>>677898066
but why scottie pippen

>>677888772
you clearly know nothing about hockey, fighting is integral to the game
its literally part of the strategy of intimidating your opponents so they dont play as well

>>677898066
Pierre turgeon

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>>677898864 no
>>677899317 no
>>677899021 yes
Q#2 hint: lazy russian

>>677899034
first pic I clicked

Q#3
>punch a guy so hard he becomes retarded
>Sportsnet hires him out of pity
>indirectly make Sportsnet worse with my punch

>>677900046
I'm stumped. Federov

>>677900972
Q#2 is Alexander Semin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDRCpN4OMpM

>>677894701
>>677895022

Hot would shove face into cock :3

>>677888538
/thread

>>677888010
Hockey fights are real, it's the game that's staged. It's like WWE women wrestling. Guys want to see hot chicks roll around on a mat so they invented a sport to do it. Guys like to see guys bare knuckle fight, so they invented hockey.

OP
Have you ever been in a hockey fight. sometimes people do stupid shit on the ice especially with there fucking stick.

>>677901579
It all make sense now. Thats was hard motherfucking question. So is #3

>>677902436
I don't think hockey was invented with the idea it'd be a fighting game...

If somebody likes to see people fight, what's wrong with watching UFC fighting instead?

HEY

OP here, thanks for the thread guys, gave me plenty insight into the how and why people fight in hockey.

Still pretty retarded system, but it's entertaining, so whatever.

Goodnight fags

>>677902772
Q#3 hint: Every time you hear Nick Kypreos say something dumb it was my fault.

>>677902179
Pls kill yourself you fucking scum cockpuffer faggot cunt bitch you don't deserve to breath the air you lifeless abomination of a human sack of shit

>>677902806
MMA is boring brazilian crotch grabbing. Hockey fights are better. 1 vs 1, no gloves, guys only, final destination.
And it's on skates too, which is impressive for guys to keep standing while throwing punches.

>>677903400
Doug Gilmour