A month ago I wrote a piece about the decline of fighting in New York Rangers hockey. In the closing paragraph I couldn’t resist pointing out that fighting slowly dying out was a good thing for the health and safety of hockey players.
It’s all too easy to vilify fighting for hockey’s concussion problems.
Bare-knuckle boxing matches with almost exclusively punches to the head taking place on a sheet of ice over a slab of concrete make for a logical and convenient scapegoat.