chicken wings without scr
 DN> Btw, if you like hockey without the violence, why not just go get a
 DN> snack when the boys drop the gloves?  Seems silly to shelf a sport
 DN> because you have an objection to a small, insignifigant part of it.
     Hardly an insignificant part of it.  Fights don't break out for the 
just the hell of it, usually something provokes it.  In the old days 
before the league started stepping in on these matters, it was a way for 
the players to police themselves, to protect their goaltenders and star 
players, and to avenge dirty play.  They should go back to that.
 
 DN> Another thing that just struck me as I was writing this..  surely
 DN> you've watched an occasional NHL playoff game..  there is NO fighting
 DN> in them, and very few vicious stick attacks..  what's wrong with
 DN> playoff hockey? 
     No fighting?  Have you so soon forgotten that celebrated 
Clark-McSorley tilt in Game 1 of the Toronto-Los Angeles conference 
final in 1993?  I also seem to recall there being a donnybrook breaking 
out in Game 4 of this past years conference final between Colorado and 
Detroit with Marc Crawford wanting to punch out Scotty Bowman...
                                      Sincerely Yours
                                      
                                      David G. Riess
                                      EchoFightDoctor
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