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That’s largely because this incident gives critics a chance to demand that NHL players and everyone else be ordered to wear neck collars. You can have even more protective gear mandatory and also ban fighting, but that is not going to make the game any better or safer because it is now so much bigger and faster and stronger but so much more stupid and careless compared to the brand of hockey that even I grew up with in the 1970s and on into the 1980s (and there were complaints about how the game was evolving at that time even).

12 posted on 10/30/2023 6:40:05 PM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )

much more stupid and careless compared to the brand of hockey that even I grew up with in the 1970s and on into the 1980s (and there were complaints about how the game was evolving at that time even).
There was an old joke back then "I went to see a fight and a Rangers game broke out."