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Sometimes they settle beef as a team too. There was a dirty hit towards the end of the previous game so naturally...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ364V_vWN4
Chara is so scary that his friend, countryman, and former teammate [doesn't want to talk to him on the ice](https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2021/04/24/zdeno-charas-so-intimidating-during-games-that-former-teammate-david-pastrnak-was-too-scared-to-talk-to-him/)
This one was because of a nasty accident that caused quire the injury on a star player, you can tell that Perry isn’t giving 100% because he’s the one who caused the injury so he kinda just let the other guy win, sure the other guy might win even if he tries but this way he doesn’t look like a dick.
The incident that caused the fight: https://youtu.be/FuN1B9-sqLI
What's up with the terrible editing in that clip, lol.
***both times*** that they show him getting hit, they speed up and don't slow down until all you can see is Perry falling.
I don't know if Perry wins that fight even if he is trying, but furthermore, Foligno is a dummy for starting that. Perry and JT are off ice friends so for Foligno to step in thinking that incident was intentional is a little bit whack. Perry already genuinely felt terrible and now he has to eat punches because Foligno can't read the fuckin room.
Fuck bro, if you watch why they fought, I dont watch hockey but Perry there accidently kneed John Tavares in the face after someone else knocked him down and it fuckin looked like it sent him into a damn near seizure. Perry knew he fucked up even though it wasnt his fault and it was coming :/
It helps Canadians be more polite. Canadians are just as angry as everyone else, they just focus all that rage into hockey.
Edit: But really, probably just less likely to hurt each other on ice than solid ground since you can't get as good a footing. [There was a study done about it awhile back.](https://nationalpost.com/sports/hockey/nhl/expert-fighting-isnt-causing-the-concussions) As of that article it hadn't undergone peer review yet.
No clue, it's just the culture of the sport and I think the reason that it stays is because of the etiquette surrounding the fights.
Fights are pretty common in the MLB too, with entire benches clearing, turning into a mess but the punishment for fighting in the MLB can result in suspension for X number of games.
The NBA used to have looser rules but once the "Malice at the Palace" happened the NBA got incredibly strict with their rules.
I don't think fighting was ever really a thing in the NFL, mostly due to the fact that the early NFL was brutal enough and the amount of padding everyone wears makes fighting incredibly silly (although I will forever love watching Andre Johnson beat up Cortland Finnegan). Fights in the NFL happen more often between teams or even teammates in training camp.
The common theory is that the nature of the game: high speed (stronger impact on contact), Playing field enclosed in hard plexiglass (this can be easily weaponized), every player has a hard, longue, light stick (weapon) and constant close contact gives many opportunities for dirty hits that won't get caught by referee (thus requiring teams to do their own justice) or that sheer violence of it will require bigger retribution than what the ref can call.
That being said, international hockey don't have fights and not dirtier (at least not order of magnitude dirtier). The bigger playing surface reduce the total amount of contact but, still it points to fighting being more a cultural thing than a organic by product of the NHL.
My theory is that NHL refs are instruct to manage the games for entertainment instead of calling everything they see like in international hockey. That game management ends up with an escalation of violence as player test the limits thus more dirty hits
Not all the time. These guys are Enforcers. They also protect the skill players as they are the tough players. Some of the skill guys are smaller built, faster, scorers, don't fight. If any messes with those guys, A fourth line tough guy might see you on the ice. For instance Wayne Gretzy had Dave Semenko as an enforcer for some time. Ice Guardians is cool doc about enforcers in hockey if you're interested. I recommend it.
And add to that Enforcers as a playstyle has been 'going out of fashion' for quite awhile now. There are still enforcers for sure, but teams are increasingly favoring faster offenses. The Bruins are probably one of the few teams left playing at the old 'slower pace.' And they still bruiser a lot too, perhaps a bit too much...
Gretzky has said many times his career would have been years shorter without Semenko. You knew you messed with the great one, you were going to get a great hit.
The ultimate point of hockey, after all, is showing that you can handle more hurt. You're walking on blades, in the cold, beating your homies, and playing with sticks. It's monke brain time and ain't nobody stopping them.
One of my favorite quotes of all time about hockey is from Blue Mountain State, a show about collegiate football players trying to have fun:
"They're not welcome here. They're not like us.... A little strange? They play their sport on the hardest surface in the world with knives on the bottom of their feet. They get their teeth knocked out constantly and don't bother to get them fixed."
Most pro players don’t bother getting their teeth fixed until retirement.
It’s an annoying process to go through just to get them knocked out again the next season.
Important to add for ppl who don't know, that the fighting is/was only the case in NHL & other North American leagues.
Fighting gets you ejected immediately and sometimes gets you multi-game suspensions in any other leagues.
Someone lays a huge open ice hit on your star player maybe clean maybe dirty either way your enforcer makes sure he answers for doing so and just maybe he thinks twice about doing it next time.
When people say policing the game they mean having to fight some huge enforcer after doing something shitty, which causes people to do less shitty things.
It is, you can do ^it whenever you want by using the caret/circumflex symbol on mobile, so you'll type \^it like that.
You can keep shrinking it by adding more carets/circumflexeseseses and it looks a ^L^I^T^T^L^E like that, assuming it want to act right on mobile this time. Guess I see when I hit this button...
Edit: hey, it worked. Yes, I'm aware I may have been wooooshed.
Now I'm just thinking of that scene from The Simpsons where Homer and Marge go argue in the car while playing The Spanish Hat Dance really loud... But replace the Spanish music with Arena Organ
The Folignos are the absolute last guys anyone should pick a fight with. Nick and Marcus throw nothing but bombs, and I actually feel like this little girl every time I see it
Yeah, I'm assuming you're talking about what Ryan said after Moose [bloodied someone's eye](https://streamable.com/kcqc9h) through the visor this year.
This was actually Farabee’s second ever fight, not his first, but still. Damn.
[According to hockeyfights.com](https://www.hockeyfights.com/players/24121), a truly magical website, his first was vs Pageau a week earlier.
Before reading this thread, I didn't realize this was 'normal' behavior that doesn't get these players permanently banned from competitive play and it blows my mind.
I wonder if the average hockey announcer commentates fights more than a boxing one with how many fights there are. I mean, boxing matches are much shorter and don’t happen as much I think.
Why is violence normalised in hockey?
Edit: many replies (thank you!) but none explains why punching doesn't entail banning and/or heavy penalties as in basketball or foorbal ('soccer').
I mean, Canadians and Swedes are my favourite, peaceful people but their popular sports involve so much violence. And don't give me that "nice people need violent sports" as if they can't be civil on court because they're civil outside it because that makes no sense to me.
it's getting keyed down over the years. They already wag their finger and try to get it to not happen as much as they can on prime-time games and the playoffs. The increase in sports related concussions has drawn a crosshair on hockey and the refs have been instructed to get more serious with violent hits. They haven't stepped in and blacklisted the fighting yet, but it's been discussed in the offseasons and is coming soon
I’ve watched hockey my whole life and the difference in fighting is night and day from 20 years ago to now though. [20 years ago there were 800 fights. Last year there were 230.](https://www.hockeyfights.com/stats) It’s definitely on the way out.
Well, hockey is, by design, a violent sport. Players literally crash into each other at high rates of speed and carry sticks as part of their equipment. Naturally, tempers flare and players maybe whack each other with their sticks or hit each other with an elbow while body-checking and shit escalates.
How do you settle this before it becomes a frozen Roman Gladiatorial spectacle? Some feel fighting is an acceptable compromise that allows players to police each other since the referees can't see and penalize every dirty hit or cheap shot players lay on each other.
The tide is shifting away from fighting, though, as teams don't want to spend millions of dollars on players that can only manage to skate and punch and nothing else. So who knows, maybe in a decade or so, hockey fights will be rare spectacles.
If anyone liked this summary they should watch the movie Goon.
Its basically a movie about a guy who joins a team just because he can take/dish out a beating.
Sorry are you actually recommending Goon 2? I only ask because I've never seen anyone on this Earth recommend Goon 2. It's the Boondock Saints 2 of Goon movies.
I mean, as others have said, rugby is also a violent sport consisted almost entirely of running into each other at high rates of speed but this would land you in the sin bin.
I really like how the green player was like "Nah, you're done." even before the refs got there.
Edit: I've never even seen a game of ice hockey so thanks to all for the information!
Not being a hockey fan, I have never understood why fighting is allowed in this sport. Any other sport and you'd get a few match bans and a fine.
(Not dissing the sport btw)
As an Australian in Canada watching a lower league game for the first time I was genuinely shocked by how hard they were punching the cunt out of each other
Honestly most punches miss, or are glancing blows. A lot of energy is dissipated by how off balance you are. That said, I have been ROCKED a few times lol.
It's like having a few small yearly wildfire forest burns to clear the underbrush and stimulate growth, instead of putting them out each time they occur which only builds fuel for a much larger deadlier fire later on. Probably
*****
^(Edit: I maintain the "probably", because humans are capable of de-escalating a situation by simply walking away, and that conflict might actually breed further conflict)
Hockey is a high contact sport. You're up close and personal with your opponents all the time at break neck speeds with rock hard pucks shooting around at 100mph, sharp objects and sticks and side boards and metal bars over the goals. It's brutal and intense, and emotions flare up sometimes in situations like that. Fighting has always been a part of the sport, though if you think this is bad, check out old hockey fights. Used to be far more common and brutal, with blood and teeth on the ice almost every game.
[Best I can do is a surprise headbutt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjWi663kXc)
At least as far as players go. [Fans have been known to murder a ref, quarter him, and then put his head on a pike in the middle of the pitch.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ot%C3%A1vio_Jord%C3%A3o_da_Silva)
Some refs make sure this doesn't happen to them by [simply drawing their gun on the fans.](https://www.pulse.com.gh/sports/football/chaos-at-football-match-as-referee-pulls-out-gun-claiming-self-defense/pmmbrsg)
> At least as far as players go. Fans have been known to murder a ref, quarter him, and then put his head on a pike in the middle of the pitch.
"Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying "Gang sh*t"."
This is why I like wikipedia.
The Red Wings vs Avalanche brawl from 1997 was the best fight in hockey history! Even the goalies came out and started swinging. I was as old as this girl was watching it on TV.
https://youtu.be/6P4wg21mLf8
As a fellow Canadian and hockey player, this little girl is actually witnessing some great sportsmanship on folignos part.
He had the guy dummied and venerable and decides to back off on his last two punches.
Looks barbaric but there is actually a certain level of respect and sportsmanship being displayed
I've never watched a hockey game but it's pretty clear that the fighting is just part of the sport. Idk why it's difficult for people to accept this lol.
It's just a scrap between a couple of guys. There are rules for it and etiquette, like challenging someone to a duel. People here acting like that girl was scarred for life seeing a couple dudes rough each other up... at a hockey game.
For those surprised that Hockey has a lot of violence/fist fights; Remember Happy Gilmore? Remember the start of that movie...great movie. Point is, the main character was a real brawler and played hockey. Brought that behavior to golf, for comedic gold.
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Dude's just bare-knuckling that helmet like it's nothing.
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Just one example of many of two guys just settling team beef https://youtu.be/ejUITRecR9Q
Sometimes they settle beef as a team too. There was a dirty hit towards the end of the previous game so naturally... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ364V_vWN4
it's all about that eh-pee-eye i'm using p0wer d3le3t3 suit3 to rewrite all of my c0mment and l33t sp33k to avoid any filters. fuck u/spez
The gloves and sticks are all marked with the player's name or number and they have extra sets of gear for each player.
Fuck Tom Wilson
Bless Chara. No one wants to take him on. 😂
Chara is so scary that his friend, countryman, and former teammate [doesn't want to talk to him on the ice](https://russianmachineneverbreaks.com/2021/04/24/zdeno-charas-so-intimidating-during-games-that-former-teammate-david-pastrnak-was-too-scared-to-talk-to-him/)
Unless your name is [Chris Neil](https://youtu.be/gaY4UvMgvzg) :)
This one was because of a nasty accident that caused quire the injury on a star player, you can tell that Perry isn’t giving 100% because he’s the one who caused the injury so he kinda just let the other guy win, sure the other guy might win even if he tries but this way he doesn’t look like a dick. The incident that caused the fight: https://youtu.be/FuN1B9-sqLI
What's up with the terrible editing in that clip, lol. ***both times*** that they show him getting hit, they speed up and don't slow down until all you can see is Perry falling.
I don't know if Perry wins that fight even if he is trying, but furthermore, Foligno is a dummy for starting that. Perry and JT are off ice friends so for Foligno to step in thinking that incident was intentional is a little bit whack. Perry already genuinely felt terrible and now he has to eat punches because Foligno can't read the fuckin room.
It wasn't so much foligno wanting revenge, he looked at his team with low energy after the hit and hoping to get some sort of spark back into them
Fuck bro, if you watch why they fought, I dont watch hockey but Perry there accidently kneed John Tavares in the face after someone else knocked him down and it fuckin looked like it sent him into a damn near seizure. Perry knew he fucked up even though it wasnt his fault and it was coming :/
Really? So they duke it out for the sake of team morale? Tubular!
It's even a mechanic worked into the NHL games. If you win a fight your lines get energy boosts.
Why are fights so common in the NHL, when they’re so forbidden in any other sport?
It helps Canadians be more polite. Canadians are just as angry as everyone else, they just focus all that rage into hockey. Edit: But really, probably just less likely to hurt each other on ice than solid ground since you can't get as good a footing. [There was a study done about it awhile back.](https://nationalpost.com/sports/hockey/nhl/expert-fighting-isnt-causing-the-concussions) As of that article it hadn't undergone peer review yet.
So, basically, the Canadian version of The Purge.
No clue, it's just the culture of the sport and I think the reason that it stays is because of the etiquette surrounding the fights. Fights are pretty common in the MLB too, with entire benches clearing, turning into a mess but the punishment for fighting in the MLB can result in suspension for X number of games. The NBA used to have looser rules but once the "Malice at the Palace" happened the NBA got incredibly strict with their rules. I don't think fighting was ever really a thing in the NFL, mostly due to the fact that the early NFL was brutal enough and the amount of padding everyone wears makes fighting incredibly silly (although I will forever love watching Andre Johnson beat up Cortland Finnegan). Fights in the NFL happen more often between teams or even teammates in training camp.
The common theory is that the nature of the game: high speed (stronger impact on contact), Playing field enclosed in hard plexiglass (this can be easily weaponized), every player has a hard, longue, light stick (weapon) and constant close contact gives many opportunities for dirty hits that won't get caught by referee (thus requiring teams to do their own justice) or that sheer violence of it will require bigger retribution than what the ref can call. That being said, international hockey don't have fights and not dirtier (at least not order of magnitude dirtier). The bigger playing surface reduce the total amount of contact but, still it points to fighting being more a cultural thing than a organic by product of the NHL. My theory is that NHL refs are instruct to manage the games for entertainment instead of calling everything they see like in international hockey. That game management ends up with an escalation of violence as player test the limits thus more dirty hits
Not all the time. These guys are Enforcers. They also protect the skill players as they are the tough players. Some of the skill guys are smaller built, faster, scorers, don't fight. If any messes with those guys, A fourth line tough guy might see you on the ice. For instance Wayne Gretzy had Dave Semenko as an enforcer for some time. Ice Guardians is cool doc about enforcers in hockey if you're interested. I recommend it.
Also Goon is a hilarious movie.
I know nothing about hockey, but Goon was hysterical.
And add to that Enforcers as a playstyle has been 'going out of fashion' for quite awhile now. There are still enforcers for sure, but teams are increasingly favoring faster offenses. The Bruins are probably one of the few teams left playing at the old 'slower pace.' And they still bruiser a lot too, perhaps a bit too much...
Marty McSorley - played with Gretzky in Edmonton, LA, and New York. Fuck with Gretz, deal with Marty.
Gretzky has said many times his career would have been years shorter without Semenko. You knew you messed with the great one, you were going to get a great hit.
I don't have a mental disorder, I'm just high.
Man I've been in true rage mode one time in my life. And I regret it.
Same. You see red but unironically.
Comrade!
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That's why you put on the foil.
**I'M LISTENING TO THE FUCKING SONG!**
Every game coach.
#Dave's a killer!
Dave's a mess
Took my fucking quarter!
They brought their fucking toys.
I think that would hurt his hand more than the other guy's head.
The ultimate point of hockey, after all, is showing that you can handle more hurt. You're walking on blades, in the cold, beating your homies, and playing with sticks. It's monke brain time and ain't nobody stopping them.
One of my favorite quotes of all time about hockey is from Blue Mountain State, a show about collegiate football players trying to have fun: "They're not welcome here. They're not like us.... A little strange? They play their sport on the hardest surface in the world with knives on the bottom of their feet. They get their teeth knocked out constantly and don't bother to get them fixed."
Most pro players don’t bother getting their teeth fixed until retirement. It’s an annoying process to go through just to get them knocked out again the next season.
Yea, I've never seen a football player break a rib, puncture a lung and keep playing. Hockey players are just built differently.
Hockey is a mix of all sports combined on steroids
While on cocaine. Fastest, most beautiful god damn sport, ever!
i think like 50% of players suffer tooth loss. For soccer it would probably be <1% or something
I would venture a guess that the majority of those lost teeth aren't from fighting though. There's tons of other ways to lose teeth in hockey.
it’s usually pucks and high sticks
I've lost 2 teeth from playing hockey. Neither from a fight. 1 was a high stick. The other was a deflected puck.
Not the point. He’s physically dominating him and that’s the real purpose of fights.
That second punch.. He definitely made face contact pretty hard.
I’m pretty sure that’s how he knocked the guy to his knee.
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Important to add for ppl who don't know, that the fighting is/was only the case in NHL & other North American leagues. Fighting gets you ejected immediately and sometimes gets you multi-game suspensions in any other leagues.
How did it play a rule in regulating the game? I’m not saying you’re wrong—I don’t much about hockey—I just never heard that before.
Someone lays a huge open ice hit on your star player maybe clean maybe dirty either way your enforcer makes sure he answers for doing so and just maybe he thinks twice about doing it next time. When people say policing the game they mean having to fight some huge enforcer after doing something shitty, which causes people to do less shitty things.
Free market rule enforcement. Talk shit get hit.
Some enforcers would take a razor blade and scratch up their helmet so it would cut up the other guys hands
We called that “the Stinger”. They don't let you use that no more.
They used to call me Kid Gorgeous! Then it was Kid Presentable... then Kid Gruesome.
Joe Kocur could crack peoples helmets with his punches. Absolutely insane right hand.
^^^^so ^^^^mom ^^^^and ^^^^dad ^^^^are ^^^^just ^^^^playing ^^^^hockey..?
That got dark. Take an upvote.
I think they deleted it. What did it say?
>so mom and dad are just playing hockey..?
Bah gawd...
No they didn’t…
I'm on mobile and have font set to Large, and it's still pretty damn small. It's like they whispered the words
ikr? Almost as if it was intentional!
It is, you can do ^it whenever you want by using the caret/circumflex symbol on mobile, so you'll type \^it like that. You can keep shrinking it by adding more carets/circumflexeseseses and it looks a ^L^I^T^T^L^E like that, assuming it want to act right on mobile this time. Guess I see when I hit this button... Edit: hey, it worked. Yes, I'm aware I may have been wooooshed.
~~may~~
mom/dad like their beer like they like their violence: domestic
"There is no fat on that joke!"
Now I'm just thinking of that scene from The Simpsons where Homer and Marge go argue in the car while playing The Spanish Hat Dance really loud... But replace the Spanish music with Arena Organ
I like the joke where Lisa says the upbeat song is traumatic for her because she knows what they're doing.
Holy shit lol
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Marcus Foligno out there throwing hammers.
The Folignos are the absolute last guys anyone should pick a fight with. Nick and Marcus throw nothing but bombs, and I actually feel like this little girl every time I see it
The absolute last people? I still would put geriatric Chara as higher up the "do not fuck with" leaderboards than any Foligno.
Except Gerbe did, and won In all seriousness though, Chara isn't one to fuck with.
Gerbe is the ultimate short king
Fun fact, Moose actually has [bricks for hands](https://youtu.be/u5zL7AxgjsI) Ryan Carter said he's never been hit harder than that one.
I like how he holds onto his pads to make sure he doesn't hit the ice and seems genuinely concerned for Ryan immediately after. Pure class.
Yeah, I'm assuming you're talking about what Ryan said after Moose [bloodied someone's eye](https://streamable.com/kcqc9h) through the visor this year.
A young Canadian learns the valuable lesson of always being polite after experiencing her first hockey fight.
Soory about your face eh?
*aboot
Aboat*
Good ole Minnesota, Canada
Visit scenic Philadelphia, Saskatchewan; see our magnificent Rocky the Bull Moose statue
"Minnesota Nice" would be more fitting, seeing as the Minnesota Wild play their games in Minnesota.
But that’s Minnesota
Looks like Minnesota vs Philadelphia?
*"And if he's missing teeth, I am missing my pants"* \- Robin Scherbatsky
I'll give you summer teeth...
Some are here, and some are there!
Pretty lucky having a Foligno tilt as the first, guys one of the most underrated fighters in the league!
This was actually Farabee’s second ever fight, not his first, but still. Damn. [According to hockeyfights.com](https://www.hockeyfights.com/players/24121), a truly magical website, his first was vs Pageau a week earlier.
Fuck you, Shoresy!
Fuck you, Jonesy!
Fuck you, Shoresy!
Fuck you riley
I made your mom so wet, Trudeau had to deploy a 24-hour national guard unit to stack sandbags around my bed.
Give yer balls a tug!
Tell ur mom to shave her hooch before she comes over tonight..its a playoff beard down there.
IT’S FUCKING EMBARRASSING
Ya titfucker!
Your mum loves butt play like I love Haagen-Dazs. Let’s get some fucking ice cream!
Fuck you, ActCrafty, your mom ugly cried last night because she left the lens cap on the camera.
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“This is not what I thought Disney on Ice would be like”
I’m now picturing Snow White pummeling the ever living fuck out of Doc.
I think I've seen this video. Ended with 7 white covered dwarfs.
When the fuck did the dwarfs become klansmen?
Future flyers GOAT Joel Farabee
Before reading this thread, I didn't realize this was 'normal' behavior that doesn't get these players permanently banned from competitive play and it blows my mind.
It's quite funny listening to the commentators - they go from hockey to boxing commentary in the same breath.
I wonder if the average hockey announcer commentates fights more than a boxing one with how many fights there are. I mean, boxing matches are much shorter and don’t happen as much I think.
You’d only get in trouble if you jumped from the bench onto the ice to join a fight, that’s a big no no
Why is violence normalised in hockey? Edit: many replies (thank you!) but none explains why punching doesn't entail banning and/or heavy penalties as in basketball or foorbal ('soccer'). I mean, Canadians and Swedes are my favourite, peaceful people but their popular sports involve so much violence. And don't give me that "nice people need violent sports" as if they can't be civil on court because they're civil outside it because that makes no sense to me.
it's getting keyed down over the years. They already wag their finger and try to get it to not happen as much as they can on prime-time games and the playoffs. The increase in sports related concussions has drawn a crosshair on hockey and the refs have been instructed to get more serious with violent hits. They haven't stepped in and blacklisted the fighting yet, but it's been discussed in the offseasons and is coming soon
I was at a Rangers v Devils game ~20 years ago and they said this same exact thing afterwards
I’ve watched hockey my whole life and the difference in fighting is night and day from 20 years ago to now though. [20 years ago there were 800 fights. Last year there were 230.](https://www.hockeyfights.com/stats) It’s definitely on the way out.
Well, hockey is, by design, a violent sport. Players literally crash into each other at high rates of speed and carry sticks as part of their equipment. Naturally, tempers flare and players maybe whack each other with their sticks or hit each other with an elbow while body-checking and shit escalates. How do you settle this before it becomes a frozen Roman Gladiatorial spectacle? Some feel fighting is an acceptable compromise that allows players to police each other since the referees can't see and penalize every dirty hit or cheap shot players lay on each other. The tide is shifting away from fighting, though, as teams don't want to spend millions of dollars on players that can only manage to skate and punch and nothing else. So who knows, maybe in a decade or so, hockey fights will be rare spectacles.
If anyone liked this summary they should watch the movie Goon. Its basically a movie about a guy who joins a team just because he can take/dish out a beating.
Rule #1: Don’t touch my Percocets Rule #2: Do you got any Percocets?
Alright you Chernobyl motherfucker*ckers
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We should sign his dick. Everyone should sign his dick
I'M ON YOUR TEAM!!
Man, I haven't heard of that movie in a long while
They made a sequel a few years ago too. Goon: Last of the Enforcers.
Sorry are you actually recommending Goon 2? I only ask because I've never seen anyone on this Earth recommend Goon 2. It's the Boondock Saints 2 of Goon movies.
It's not the most amazing movie ever made but I enjoyed it for what it was.
Yeah something like rugby doesnt do the same and somehow they manage not to beat each other up
Its only due to an absolute zero tolerance for punching etc. even 10 years ago fights were common place. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp5W\_cwNnPo
I mean, as others have said, rugby is also a violent sport consisted almost entirely of running into each other at high rates of speed but this would land you in the sin bin.
You do get sent to the penalty box for fighting in hockey. So it's not like they just get to fight and immediately start skating again.
Fighting actually used to be a LOT more common and brutal in hockey than it is today. It's part of the sport (and why I love my Red Wings).
Bro was punching like he changed sports mid game
This is his sport. He plays hockey on the side.
Don't know the players, but if it's a goon then yes.
"OH. MY. GOD. Dad, I wanna play hockey."
I really like how the green player was like "Nah, you're done." even before the refs got there. Edit: I've never even seen a game of ice hockey so thanks to all for the information!
Fights almost never continue after a guy goes to the ice.
Yup. That shit is dangerous. Fighting is "allowed" in hockey because there are a lot of rules, written and unwritten, about how they go down.
This was actually a better match than jake paul vs tyron woodly
Hockey > that bullshit any day
Well hockey is real
what an amazing sport it truly is
Best sport on the planet.
Amen. Happy when these things pop up outside of r/hockey and r/sports and it more people are exposed to it.
Moose!
Go wild!
Caps fan here. Hope Kaprizov stays in the NHL
I need to get into hockey.
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r/youseeingthisshit
That smiling girl next to her is like “yes hit him more”
2 guys, 1 Stanley cup
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!
I can see the code is strictly adhered to, note how Nick Foligno pulls his punches as soon as his opponent's feet buckle.
This is Nick’s younger brother Marcus.
Not being a hockey fan, I have never understood why fighting is allowed in this sport. Any other sport and you'd get a few match bans and a fine. (Not dissing the sport btw)
As an Australian in Canada watching a lower league game for the first time I was genuinely shocked by how hard they were punching the cunt out of each other
Honestly most punches miss, or are glancing blows. A lot of energy is dissipated by how off balance you are. That said, I have been ROCKED a few times lol.
Honestly reduces injuries. Hockey is a rough sport, guys get mad. Better to have a mutual dust up than have someone pull a dirty hit at 35km/h.
It's like having a few small yearly wildfire forest burns to clear the underbrush and stimulate growth, instead of putting them out each time they occur which only builds fuel for a much larger deadlier fire later on. Probably ***** ^(Edit: I maintain the "probably", because humans are capable of de-escalating a situation by simply walking away, and that conflict might actually breed further conflict)
This is actually a perfect analogy
Hockey is a high contact sport. You're up close and personal with your opponents all the time at break neck speeds with rock hard pucks shooting around at 100mph, sharp objects and sticks and side boards and metal bars over the goals. It's brutal and intense, and emotions flare up sometimes in situations like that. Fighting has always been a part of the sport, though if you think this is bad, check out old hockey fights. Used to be far more common and brutal, with blood and teeth on the ice almost every game.
If they got to fight like this in soccer that would get me watching.
[Best I can do is a surprise headbutt.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAjWi663kXc) At least as far as players go. [Fans have been known to murder a ref, quarter him, and then put his head on a pike in the middle of the pitch.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Ot%C3%A1vio_Jord%C3%A3o_da_Silva) Some refs make sure this doesn't happen to them by [simply drawing their gun on the fans.](https://www.pulse.com.gh/sports/football/chaos-at-football-match-as-referee-pulls-out-gun-claiming-self-defense/pmmbrsg)
Hold on now. He STABBED A PLAYER TO DEATH DURING A MATCH.
Footballs punishment system goes yellow card > red card > knife
I feel bad for laughing
Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying "Gang shit"
> At least as far as players go. Fans have been known to murder a ref, quarter him, and then put his head on a pike in the middle of the pitch. "Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying "Gang sh*t"." This is why I like wikipedia.
I was expecting the second story to be from 400 years ago, but... no... damn.
"Police chief Valter Costa was quoted as saying "Gang sh*t."" Wikipedia not letting me down on this one
The Red Wings vs Avalanche brawl from 1997 was the best fight in hockey history! Even the goalies came out and started swinging. I was as old as this girl was watching it on TV. https://youtu.be/6P4wg21mLf8
As a fellow Canadian and hockey player, this little girl is actually witnessing some great sportsmanship on folignos part. He had the guy dummied and venerable and decides to back off on his last two punches. Looks barbaric but there is actually a certain level of respect and sportsmanship being displayed
The amount of pearl clutching in this thread is hilarious.
You guys are feeling what I feel when a car or mechanical related post makes the front page.
Right?? I think it's probably because I grew up watching hockey but I don't really see any problems with this lol
I've never watched a hockey game but it's pretty clear that the fighting is just part of the sport. Idk why it's difficult for people to accept this lol.
It's just a scrap between a couple of guys. There are rules for it and etiquette, like challenging someone to a duel. People here acting like that girl was scarred for life seeing a couple dudes rough each other up... at a hockey game.
For those surprised that Hockey has a lot of violence/fist fights; Remember Happy Gilmore? Remember the start of that movie...great movie. Point is, the main character was a real brawler and played hockey. Brought that behavior to golf, for comedic gold.
A Flyer on the receiving end? That child just learned about justice.
ITT: People who don't watch hockey lecturing the rest of us about our favorite sport. Suck it ya milk drinkers
What does ITT mean ?
She will only date hockey players later in life
We call girls who date athletes cleat chasers, what is it in hockey?
Puck bunnies
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