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B.C. hockey officials saying little after fight leaves goalie lying motionless on ice (www.cbc.ca)

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Evan Paul was playing his second game in net for the North Vancouver Wolf Pack when a fight erupted in the third period of his team's Jan. 25 game against the Richmond Sockeyes at Minoru Arena.

Video of the fight shows Richmond defenceman Eithan Grishin over top of Paul with his arms around the goaltender for close to 20 seconds. When Grishin lets go, Paul slumps to the ice.

Grishin, 19, was (previously) suspended 16 games for incidents earlier this season, according to the PJHL website.

On Nov. 16, he received a 13-game suspension — five games for harassment of an official, three games as supplemental discipline, two games after receiving a game misconduct for being the third man in a fight, and three games as supplemental discipline for being a repeat offender.

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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago (44 children)

"We can't ban fighting in hockey!"

Fuck off, how come most sports don't have fights but hockey players are special like that?

[–] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Most sports don't have the levels of speed or physical contact that hockey does. These players can hit each other at 25mph(40kmph) which is almost twice the speed of football contacts (and 4 times the energy due to e = mv^2)

There's a really difficult line between "accident" and accident that the refs can't properly handle, which is why fighting is there to ensure that "accidents" don't happen as often.

Everything from that extra little poke at a goalie's glove covering the puck to a hit on a player that was vulnerable matters.

Some players abuse it, but that's true for everything. Most of the time it does its job just fine.

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How does any of that have anything to do with this guy literally strangling the goalie until unconsciousness?

[–] asymmetric@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Because the guy wasn't responding to that prompt. He was responding to the question:

Fuck off, how come most sports don’t have fights but hockey players are special like that?

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