New tough guy in the NHL? - Page 4

On January 08 2009 08:39 TheTank wrote: baal, it's a team thing man... the team won't care if your suspended because the team knows that you have a good reason for fighting, and they won't question you about it, and the team konws that everyone on the team would do the same given the roles were switched.

No its retarded, the objective of the game is TO WIN, fighting acomplishes nothing thowards that goal, actually getting a 5min suspension makes it less likely for your team to win, so its not a team thing at all, on the contrary, its a selfish act of childish tantrum where you take your anger and put it in first place even before victory, that is pathetic.

Its pretty much like tilting in poker.

dont draw analogies when you have no knowledge of the topic baal
5min penalty does not put your team short a skater, and there are positives that can result from a fight (ie. waking up your team, making sure the other team isn't taking liberties with your star player, etc.)

A lot of sports can actually benefit from allowing some sort of accountability. US football comes to mind so that your star players (ie. QB) isn't just taking cheapshots after cheapshots from the scrubs on the other team.

It is NOT comparable at all to tilting in poker.

If fights were allowed in poker, Phil Hellmuth would be dead by now.