| You're off on hockey. Injuries are up not a result of fighting, but the lack of it. Throw out the instigator rule, contract the league (Bye Florida, Phoneix, Nashvile, Carolina), fire Bettman and get the NHL a tv deal with a real channel.
The head injuries you're talking about are mostly from players getting hit high on dirty checks not fighting. The instigator rule prevents what alot of teams used to do to prevent cheap shots. You have a guy on your team getting league minimum that can barely skate but could punch while standing on them. Someone took a cheap shot at a player? When that guy got out of the box he knew you were sending your resident thug out to punch him in the face a few times and remind him why not to to do that.
Also I don't remember another incident that charges were filed execpt Bertuzzi in '04 and McSorely '00 |