11-23-2004, 03:40 AM
Chaerophon,Nov 22 2004, 09:20 PM Wrote:I would agree with that to a point in the NHL. However, if you go come up here to watch a junior hockey game, I guarantee that you'll get your money's worth in that department!
I'll never forget my first rookie camp. Four fights in four nights, a black eye, jersey-burned face and, most important of all, a sore hand :) I didn't make the final cut that year, but they damn sure remembered who I was come next camp!
However, I do have to admit that, even 7 or 8 years ago things were a bit different. Nowadays there is a lot less of that in camp. I was a moderately to well-skilled player, but if I wanted to make it, I had to show some grit too. It's not so much 'required' now as it is 'admired' :). Having assistant coached for two years after I was done playing, I would agree with you that the biggest part of the problem is increased parent 'involvement'.
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If people cut down on fights in other places, I don't see what sticking it all over in sports will do. If someone likes fighting, they have to deal with that plain and simple, not just try and move it around somewhere else.
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The gloves come off, I'm playing hardball. It's fourth and 15 and you're looking at a full-court press. (Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun)
Some people in forums do the next best thing to listening to themselves talk, writing and reading what they write (source, my brother)