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***Ace*** · 11-22-2022, 09:28 AM

Player Prompt - Written Task
Lord Farquaads is a lover, not a fighter. It is known that Lord Farquaads will spend time sitting down in front of the Magic Mirror admiring beautiful women before seeking a pugilistic partner. If combat was necessary for Lord Farquaads, he had some muscle available to make that happen. His first go-to choice is Thelonious, his Court Executioner, and his best friend. If someone messed around with Shiny Shuckle or Rebecca Montagne, that may be enough reason for Lord Farquaads to brush off the ol’ slap mittens. Lord Farquaads isn’t a big punching guy, but if the gloves did indeed get dropped, he’d slap the shit out of his opponents, as long as the opponent wasn’t too tall to reach due to Farquaads’ diminutive stature. Farquaads would also do a lot of facewashing to his opponents to try to goad them into an extra minor penalty to put the Aurora back on the man advantage.

***Frenchie*** · 11-22-2022, 09:38 AM

Hockey prompt - written task

There are two ways to see fighting in hockey. First of all, from an entertainement point of view, its undeniable that fighting, when done at a proper time and for the correct reasons, can be a major hype generator. I'm sure you can ask around and a lot of people will have fond memories of a certain fight or a certain enforcer, which just goes to show that its an important aspect of the game, unortunately maybe so. Scond of all, from a performance or hockery point of view, when down a few goals or when the performance is not superb, a good fight can really help rally the team and break off from a lackluster showing.

That being said, I know some fights are dumb, especially when its to ''answer your hit'' or anything. Punishment should not be served through violence, but by the league. Case in point, Paul Byron had to answer to a very questionable hit, sure, but he's not a fighter. He's never been the same since then after suffering a concussion. The debate could go on for a while, but my brief opinion on the matter is this, they're highly divisive and it varies depending on the situation.

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***Anthique*** · 11-22-2022, 11:35 AM

Player Prompt:
Normally my player will never fight because he's someone who's calm and keep his head focus during the game. It's kinda hard for the other team to mess with him and get him out of his game.
He knows that some players have to get close to him and it's their role, and some other are specialize in scoring really close to the net so they drive the net often and some contacts may happen. If the player try to stop before the blue paint, there is no problem, but when they hit him, it will depend on the situation and who is the player.
Some have a bad reputation and the limit is very low so a situation like Gallagher/Anderson or recently Demko might happen.
To fight the other goalie, it's clear that a general fight is a rare occasion, but if it happen, count him in. Theodore might be his preferred role model, but Patrick Roy is a goalie he watched when he grew up so he's fight with Osgood is still in his memory so he's down for it.

By-Tor · 11-22-2022, 11:46 AM

Prompt #1

Beck is the big boy fighter on the Winnipeg Aurora. While no player on the team is exclusively a goon or tough guy, Beck always finds ways to beef up his PIM and fights. Every player on Winnipeg has "5" in fighting tpe, while Beck has "11." Beck has the 6th highest fighting TPE allocation in the league. Beck had the only fight for Winnipeg last season (a win) and led the team in PIM the year before. I think if the team needed a surge of adrenaline, Beck would be willing to rough someone up to get the blood pumping. He can rough someone up and sit in the box while his skilled and fast teammates light up the opposing goalie for a comeback. I think, while Beck would rather be on the ice scoring, he relishes that part of the game and measures his worth often in the stats that don't show up on the scoresheet.

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***Lumosityfan*** · 11-22-2022, 11:49 AM

Prompt #2

Fights in hockey for me are interesting just because I haven’t been involved in following hockey as much as 1) many other people on this forum who follow hockey and 2) other sports in general like baseball or basketball. I do enjoy a fight here or there but only if another person did something retaliatory such as an unneeded shove or a swipe to the face. I don’t think you should fight simply because you want to and while it has I think decreased in recent years I know in the past people fought just because someone stared at someone the wrong way. (Granted again this could just be my relatively limited knowledge of hockey so I could be wrong here) If someone decides to attack my teammate in a way that wasn’t just trying to shove the puck out or slam someone against the wall, though, bring it on suckers. I can’t allow that to happen to my teammate, regardless of the intent. In those situations I will be more than happy to throw the fisticuffs and I’d be glad to see it happen in the actual NHL.

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DarkCanuck29 · 11-22-2022, 01:13 PM

Duncan Mackenzie will fight. He will fight with anyone who wants to dance. Plus, with a fighting skill of 6, he is one of the better fighters in the league. Sadly, nobody wants to dance with him. He has been in two fights in his career, winning one of them, which was almost a big a highlight for him as the 50 goals he scored last year. He does not remember who the fight was with that he won (he gets hit in the head a lot), but he sure enjoyed the roar of the Dragon's crows and the feel of bruised knuckles. He did not focus on fighting last season, as the team was good and he was too busy trying to score a bajillion goals, but this season, he might try to find a balance. Unless people want to fight more, in which case he is 100% down to clown with anyone who so much as looks at him wrong.

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steveoiscool · 11-22-2022, 01:13 PM

We're down by 5 late in the third and I see someone talking shit about Lev. I don't even wait for the coach to call my number, I jump over the boards and charge straight towards him. Honestly, I don't even know what happens next. It's pretty fitting, I'm on the Manhattan Rage and all I see is red, bro. I finally came to about an hour later in the team locker room. I wake up to see my teammates showing me clips of my "fight", where I charged an opposing skater and launched myself headfirst into the boards instead. I like to think that the message was sent and received though, if anyone talks shit about Lev someone is getting hurt. It was me this time, but next time it could be you. So best watch your words, I've become a human missile once and I'm not scared to do it again.

***JKortesi81*** · 11-22-2022, 03:10 PM

If the New Orleans Specters are going to get into a fight to “inspire” the boys on the team, the player that you more than likely will NOT see mixing it up is Xavier Doom. Doom has never been much of a fighter. While he’s not scared to drop the gloves by any means, as he has in the past, its not his main purpose. The best thing about growing up and playing hockey, to Doom, has been frustrating his opponents to the point that they take stupid penalties. Doom plays tough, but he plays smart, and a sneaky hip check here combined with a lot of smack talk designed to take players off their game is something he relishes. No, if New Orleans is going to have someone beating some ass to get the Specters’ heads into the game, it's going to be the hulking defenseman Jean-Locke Zidane. Zidane was bred to be a bully, and he plays a VERY tough game. That’s the guy the other team needs to keep an eye out on in those scenarios. (179)

Rancidbudgie · 11-22-2022, 04:23 PM

(First Prompt):

Ignacio Garza is one of the players coaches can turn to to answer the bell, as his high-contact and intense grinding play lends itself naturally to being familiar with a bout. Garza focuses on playing a clean game, but every now and then a big hit being thrown causes an opposing player to retaliate, regardless of the cleanliness of the check. In those situations, Garza is always ready to pay his dues. While Garza would not be classified as an enforcer at this point in his career, he makes up for a lack in specific punching technique with strong fists and steady skates to balance on that make him a typically worthy opponent. Garza scraps rarely, and would likely draw or lose to a seasoned enforcer, but more than holds his own against physical scrappy players when the time comes. He has the physical tools in height and build to be a pretty good goon, but instead focuses on being a clean-checking shutdown winger instead of practicing his duels.

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downer · 11-22-2022, 05:45 PM

While Chris isn't necessarily a fighter, he'd be happy to drop the gloves if it was the difference maker for his team. There are few situations in normal play on the ice that Chris would typically feel that the only way to resolve it would be to fight. There has yet to be a situation like that on his single season in the SMJHL, but as they say, we can 'never say never' when it comes to fighting in hockey. Chris's style of play, one that's really focused on a heavy back-check and a constant presence on the penalty kill, will almost certainly result in a fight at some point in the future. Surely there will come a time that Chris frustrates the wrong forward to the point of instigating a fight, or where he himself becomes frustrated when the Grizzlies are on the wrong-end of a losing game. Until that happens, it's all speculation!

*CptSquall* · 11-22-2022, 07:46 PM

Player Prompt:

August Von Hecht beats the breaks off of the Yukon Malamute's goaltender during Firebirds throwback night, Sparking a 7-5 comeback win.

sarah · 11-22-2022, 08:34 PM

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Written Task:  What are your thoughts on fighting in hockey? It's definitely a lot less common these days, do you think that's a good thing? Do you think it has a place in the game, or that it's overdue to disappear entirely? Maybe you wish it happened more often? In your opinion, what circumstances justify a hockey fight? Specific things? Any time you want for entertainment's sake? Tell me your thoughts!

I am not a huge hockey watcher but honestly although when I watch hockey games the brief hooligan nature inside me every once in a while loves to see people defend honours and go all out to punch people, especially when the goalies come out, I think we're objectively better off with less fighting. Like first of all, players getting beat up over nothing takes its toll on the body and in the interests of the players they shouldn't be able to potentially damage their bodies and careers like that. Also, I think teams have figured out that it's better if instead of employing people just to fight you just get people to, like, actually play the game of hockey.

The one time I did go to a NHL game like weeks before the pandemic hit (because theres nothing to do in Winnipeg) I did notice way less fighting. I guess that's a good thing. The problem is that it was a Sabres-Jets game so it quickly became awful. Fights would have been way more entertaining sadly.

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*SimmiZ* · 11-22-2022, 10:28 PM

PLAYER PROMPT

Filip Lund is not the kind of player that will fight every game, but if the situation, or the coach want to send a message to our team or the other one, or if one of the smaller player of the Crows receive a dirty hit, Lund will gladly step in. Lund has a very physical style of play, hitting a winger on the side of the ramp, or battling in front of the net can make thing escalate quickly, and in the last season it has leaded to two or three fights for Lund. Despite the fact that he is not a fighter, Filip has always done well when it was time to drop the gloves, his big stature of 6 ft 6 and 230 lbs, has always helped him a lot. Lund has always tough that fighting is a big part of hockey, and it is also unique compared to all others professional sports, but he dont want to focus too much on it, its hockey not martial arts.

***Sburbine*** · 11-23-2022, 12:12 AM

Hockey Prompt
Fighting in hockey is definitely an old school sort of thing, something that the old fans would cry for and try to push the players to fight each other. As more and more research has come out about the long term effects of head injuries, the league has tried to push people away from punching each other and it leave everything in the game. While they still allow short fight, you're gonna get a 5 minute major for throwing fists like that. There are a few "good" reasons that players still do fight each other. First, trying to sway the momentum of the game by getting your team exited from beating some guy up, I'm not all that confident that this works but it gets the people going. Second, to take out a player better than you for 5 minutes, this can work but the really talented guys are smart enough to not fight back. I think fighting will get phased out over time, sure it's exciting but can also be pretty dangerous.

Theseajebus · 11-23-2022, 01:22 AM

Hockey Prompt

Fighting in hockey will always be important to me. Now Maybe it's because it is generational and such a big part of growing up with hockey in the 80s. It was also alot dirtier back then and alot of the fights were definitely justified. These days there is alot less and as well we see more skill. But there is still a place for fighting in hockey these days because it is a testosterone fueled sport and agreesion is still a part of the game. These are big strong boys and also adults and I believe a fight here and there gets the while stadium fired up. Fans and the teams. Although I don't really see the need for a complete bruiser on the team where his only Jon is beatings, there is definitely alot of strong and skilled all around guys that are willing to go when it calls for it. Hockey is a beautiful game and I would be very disappointed to see fighting taken out of the nhl.

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