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MadHound

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18. Frankly I think part of the reason for an increase in violence is the increase in padding

Sun Feb 3, 2013, 02:32 PM

Feb 2013

And protection.

The old school guys had no helmets, little padding, and the roughness of the game tended to disincline those guys from engaging in fights that would make them hurt even more. Hell, you can't look at a photo of a hockey team from the forties-sixties without seeing broken noses and the gap toothed goalie who had caught one too many pucks in mouth. Those guys simply didn't have the constitution to inflict further damage upon themselves by getting engaged in fights.

But now with the helmets and bulked up padding, the ordinary rough and tumble of hockey doesn't take the toll it did a generation ago, so they are more inclined to get into fights.

I bet if they took away helmets, and slimmed down the pads, the fighting would fade as well.

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