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Ice Guardians Page #13
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But no one's allowed to retaliate.
And that, to me, was a mistake.
That's where fighting...
being tolerated...
but not encouraged and over-regulated...
it just conflicts with itself.
Staged fighting started to happen.
Well, you always find ways around rules.
Now you line up and... you
address it on a faceoff
because... you don't wanna
put your team down.
So I think fans and
the outsiders lookin' in
are all of a sudden, all up in arms
that there's all this staged fighting,
and it wasn't part of hockey,
but that was just... players and teams
working around the rules
they implemented.
Finesse player today
is getting hit a lot harder
because the guy hitting him
doesn't have to... answer
to anything that he's doing.
He can skate right by the bench and say,
I can do it all night
and there's nothin'
you can do to stop me
'cause if... you try to stop me,
it's 2-5-10, game,
you're gone and we have
a 7 minute powerplay.
There's gotta be a
huge appreciation for the fact
that we don't know what would happen
if there was no fighting.
And you can't just say
it would, y'know, keep a lot
more people safe.
What this, sort of,
new era of concussion research
affords all of the anti-fighting people
is now they have a context,
now they have a reason
as opposed to just their sensibilities
which is all it ever comes down to.
Is some people find it
distasteful and others don't.
And now the people that
find it distasteful
feel that they have a reason.
There's a poll that suggests
that 98% of NHL players
do not want fighting
to be taken out of the game.
And that's gonna be hugely important
for us to understand
because these players
are the ones, who
are involved in the game.
They're the ones who are consenting
to that level of violence
and they're the ones who
and living their lives in that context.
Y'know, at what point do we say,
"We know you all agree with that
but we've decided
that we know better than you
and we're gonna take it
out of the game?"
And at what point do we actually say,
"No, you're the ones involved,
you know what you're doing."
It was either 3 or 4 years ago,
we recommended
dropping of the puck, OK?
Because those tend to be
a little more staged
than the emotion of the moment
and it was the players
We have to train humans
to look at systemic causes.
We have to train them
to look at the big picture.
If the problem with concussions
comes from a contact sport
we have to be trained to
look at the big picture
as well as the small picture.
The idea of fighting in hockey
really splits people.
You have these, sort of, two main camps
rough, old school hockey
respect and honour
and the other side says actually
we don't need this anymore.
What we need now, is this
kind of more civilized manner
in which we can actually find other ways
that don't involve our fists.
But the trouble you're
going to have then
is... Which way you go?
Some games in today's NHL...
Can seem a bit "flat."
There were flat games
back 20, 30 years ago too.
But the game itself
feels different than it did.
You were always waiting for a spark,
you always knew it could come.
Where today...
If it fizzles out, you never
expect it to come back.
There's just something
that feels like it's missing.
Everything's changed.
It's just changed.
I truly believe that... the enforcers...
um, they're at their end.
They're at the end of...
their existence.
At this point I... have made peace
that my NHL career is probably over.
And by 'probably' I mean
almost for certain.
You kinda just saw the dominos falling
where, um, even a guy
like Brian McGrattan,
who played I think, 76 games last year,
played 7 or 8 games
and then... got sent down.
Why did you make the choice to retire?
Uhhhm..that choice was
made for me, actually...
I tried to play, uh, this past season.
I wasn't really, gonna go
and... play in the minors again
'cause I didn't really wanna... hafta...
go back all through the cycle
again and fight everybody
who was lookin' to make
a name for themself.
Brian Burke, who himself said
when he put Colton Orr on waivers -
what was it, one or two seasons ago...
He said there's just no place
for guys like Colton anymore
and that's a shame
because the rats are gonna
start takin' over the game.
Maybe it's just a rant
that the game is goin' in
a direction I don't like,
but... I'm troubled by this.
When a, a player with the
character of Colton Orr,
when he can't contribute in this league,
then I'm not sure I like
the way it's goin'.
In 2005, when the game opened up
and it became the fly-zone NHL,
in a lotta ways,
that was the beginning of the end
uh, for the traditional enforcer.
Now, when teams need to roll 4 lines
and have four effective lines
that can do a lot of different things,
you can't afford the roster spot.
They're playing
younger guys who can skate
who can check, who can grind.
If the enforcers, they can't do that,
they're not gonna be
on the team anymore.
I understand... the people
that are against it.
hockey fighters are dinosaurs
and that, fighting has no place
in the modern game.
I disagree with them,
but at least I understand why
they think the way they think.
I hope people,
if they don't agree with it...
That don't respect it,
can they at least understand it?
To me, the story of the enforcers
is extremely, profoundly, important.
I have never seen
anything that so encapsulated
the us-versus-them mentality
complete with all of its violence
and all of its virtues.
It was a dangerous role
and it was a hard way to make a living.
And it was a lot of sleepless nights...
And it was a lot of self-medicating...
And it was terror and it was pain
and these guys - did it.
I wish it was out more
because I've seen it in the press,
and in the papers and on the news,
on highlights
for the last 25-30 years
of us just being dummies
that shouldn't be in the game.
And I think there's some things said,
that have really hurt very
deeply some of these guys.
I think their story needs to be heard.
They might look
at it in a different light...
"Would I be willing to do that
to fulfill my dream?"
And they might
look at themselves and say,
"Hey, that's...
..maybe that is, there is
some honour in that."
100% unequivocal dedication...
And willingness
to sacrifice yourself, um...
for, for the people you care
about, I mean....
How does that not...
How does that not...
resonate right here?
Kid growin' up in New York City,
bein' the first N'Yorker ever to play
for the New York Rangers.
20,000 people, y'know, cheerin' for you,
yellin' your name,
sayin', "We want Nick."
When I got there, they
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