Fighting in Hockey
Hockey is the most brutal sport of them all, the sport when if you are mad at the other team you don’t have to just show it in the game with your athletic ability you can literally drop the gloves and go at it. A man once said “When someone gets between you and your goals, the best thing to do is pull their shirt over their head and punch them in the face a few times.” Author unknown. Fighting in hockey has been around in the sport ever since it got popular in Canada in the 19th century. Fighting became such a big part of the game teams started recruiting players that all they did was fight these players were called “Goons” who were only on the ice to drop the gloves and protect the skilled players. Now a days with our …show more content…
The coach throws out the fourth line and tells the enforcer of the team the “Goon” to set the tone out there and he goes out drops the gloves and wins a fight or checks a player into the wall completely swinging momentum to his teams side and just like that he gets his teammates up and going. Then the first line hits the ice and scores a goal tying the game up putting even more momentum on their teams shoulders. This would not have happened if there wasn’t an enforcer on this team to turn this game around. No matter what people think the enforcer has a big role on the team, they are very important players just as important as a killed goal scoring forward is. Also the enforcer is a widely likeable player from his teams fan base and if it’s a guy that wins the fights he is in or just a hard player that makes things happen on the ice he makes the team better and draws in more fans. Fighting is very high profile in hockey people sometimes care more about the fights more than the goals which makes an enforcer of the team a very popular guy. Owners of teams love when a guy will get out there and drop the gloves creating lots of publicity for their which means more money for them. People that don’t know a lot about hockey might just go to a game just to see a fight. Rodney Dangerfield once said “I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out.”. This was …show more content…
Hockey is the most brutal sport that we have here in the states which makes it so different than anything else we have. Hockey is meant to brutal the fights need to stay it would be different if it wasn’t the most brutal sport. There is football but there is a very good argument between which sport is more brutal but I think most people would say it would be hockey. What keeps most of the lawyers off of hockey un like football is that there aren’t a lot of junior hockey teams in every state most southern states don’t have but a few junior hockey rinks in them it is mostly a northern state game which means it has far fewer concussions that happen to kids than football. If the lawyers got into hockey fighting like they have on the hits in football hockey would be gone. The fights and bruatlness are what makes hockey somewhat popluar here. When people go to a hockey game the best things to see in a game to the average person are probably a fight, hard check into the boards, or a shootout. No one wants to see a game with no fighting and no intensity in it that would be boring. People want to see guys going fast hitting eachother into the boards right in front and maybe break the glass right in front of them now that is the hockey game experience. You cant change the way a game has been played ever since the beginning that’s insane to anyone who calls themselves fans. There’s a reason that
Hockey is the most brutal sport of them all, the sport when if you are mad at the other team you don’t have to just show it in the game with your athletic ability you can literally drop the gloves and go at it. A man once said “When someone gets between you and your goals, the best thing to do is pull their shirt over their head and punch them in the face a few times.” Author unknown. Fighting in hockey has been around in the sport ever since it got popular in Canada in the 19th century. Fighting became such a big part of the game teams started recruiting players that all they did was fight these players were called “Goons” who were only on the ice to drop the gloves and protect the skilled players. Now a days with our …show more content…
The coach throws out the fourth line and tells the enforcer of the team the “Goon” to set the tone out there and he goes out drops the gloves and wins a fight or checks a player into the wall completely swinging momentum to his teams side and just like that he gets his teammates up and going. Then the first line hits the ice and scores a goal tying the game up putting even more momentum on their teams shoulders. This would not have happened if there wasn’t an enforcer on this team to turn this game around. No matter what people think the enforcer has a big role on the team, they are very important players just as important as a killed goal scoring forward is. Also the enforcer is a widely likeable player from his teams fan base and if it’s a guy that wins the fights he is in or just a hard player that makes things happen on the ice he makes the team better and draws in more fans. Fighting is very high profile in hockey people sometimes care more about the fights more than the goals which makes an enforcer of the team a very popular guy. Owners of teams love when a guy will get out there and drop the gloves creating lots of publicity for their which means more money for them. People that don’t know a lot about hockey might just go to a game just to see a fight. Rodney Dangerfield once said “I went to a fight the other day and a hockey game broke out.”. This was …show more content…
Hockey is the most brutal sport that we have here in the states which makes it so different than anything else we have. Hockey is meant to brutal the fights need to stay it would be different if it wasn’t the most brutal sport. There is football but there is a very good argument between which sport is more brutal but I think most people would say it would be hockey. What keeps most of the lawyers off of hockey un like football is that there aren’t a lot of junior hockey teams in every state most southern states don’t have but a few junior hockey rinks in them it is mostly a northern state game which means it has far fewer concussions that happen to kids than football. If the lawyers got into hockey fighting like they have on the hits in football hockey would be gone. The fights and bruatlness are what makes hockey somewhat popluar here. When people go to a hockey game the best things to see in a game to the average person are probably a fight, hard check into the boards, or a shootout. No one wants to see a game with no fighting and no intensity in it that would be boring. People want to see guys going fast hitting eachother into the boards right in front and maybe break the glass right in front of them now that is the hockey game experience. You cant change the way a game has been played ever since the beginning that’s insane to anyone who calls themselves fans. There’s a reason that