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*Evil_AllBran* · 11-23-2022, 01:23 AM

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***NYR73*** · 11-23-2022, 01:28 AM

My player is no fighter. The severe lack of strength training throughout his career will leave him worthless in a fight. It's not his style of play anyways. I like to draw comparisons to Patrick Kane, who is never a fighter. His overall game is more focused on the offensive side rather than the physical side, but that's not to say he won't throw a hit when the time is right. My player appreciates his teammates that are willing to fight for the star players. It can be an important way to swing the momentum of the game in your favor, but the risk of injury is too great for my player to participate in fighting. If other players are able to do it without suffering injury, it's a great way to keep players and and fans involved, so if his teammates are able to do that, my player is all for it.

hhh81 · 11-23-2022, 09:23 AM

Prompt 1

While the Baltimore Platoon have a range of veteran, physical defensemen like Slip McScruf, Pojo Biscuit, and Jamal Nightingale the coaches could ask to step up and send a message, rookie M’Baku Olubori jumped at the chance to send a message for the team. However, while Olubori has been no stranger to physical play, he’s never been much of a fighter. He recorded a single fight in juniors during S67 (which he lost). Still, Baku was eager to prove himself and change the energy of the team late in the 3rd.

In actuality, fellow BAP rookie and Regina alum Don Juan would have been the better choice. He had 7 career fights to his name with the Elk, but only won a single bout. Still, Baku volunteered, and the coaches let him attempt his best. Olubori skated over to the other team’s top power forward and pushed him around, jawing as Baku does best. Surprisingly, it didn’t take much to get under Chimkin Wing’s skin (Baku may have made some comments about Wing’s siblings that triggered the fight). They dropped the gloves and brawled to a tie. It wasn’t the best fight, but Baku did it.

Baltimore still lost the game, but there was semblance of dignity.

ctots · 11-23-2022, 09:58 AM

Hockey prompt:

From a spectator perspective, I think fights do a lot to get the crowd excited, it puts butts in seats and generates revenue for the team. Even in a stadium without fans, I think fighting is an important part of the game of hockey. I don't really see the need to fight for the sake of fighting, but I do think it's one of the few ways that a team can (try to) protect their high performance players.

Fights should be happening as often as they need to, not because the fans demand them or the guys feel like racking up PIMs. If your teammate takes a bad hit, you take up for them. If there's no one on your team willing to drop the gloves and make sure that someone pays the price for it, your opponents will run roughshod over the whole team. Sometimes I feel like the new era is too resistant to squaring up and settling things with fists, but it's integral to the game on some level.

It's really not even as bad as the media makes it out to be -- these dudes aren't fighting someone who doesn't want to fight. They're typically honorable about it, and then they get back on the ice and play (hopefully with sportsmanship), and there's a lesson there, probably.

Chevy · 11-23-2022, 10:27 AM

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Is that player going to be you? Is your player a fighter? Have they ever fought before? Would they ever if they haven't yet? Why or why not? If you have fought, do you remember who it was with? Did you win? Who started it? What does your player think about that aspect of the game? If you're a goalie, tell me what it would take to get you out of your net and skating down the ice to get the other goalie! (150+ words)

"Sic 'em". That's all that the bench coach had to say. We're already down by five or so. Its been a very bad night defensively and everyone is super ticked off. The first thing anyone really expects is a goon or enforcer to go pick a fight and rev up the team, get the old sticks tapping. Little do they realize that years of pent up frustration wrapped up in puck deflecting padding is about to come raining down on anyone that wants to take a stab. Wanna hit me with a slashing penalty? Well, I hope you have enough air for that whistle because its going to chop down like Hacksaw Jim Duggan's 2x4. Think you're going to take me down as I rampage from blue-line to blue-line? Better think again as I judo flip you onto the ice and go for the ground and pound. With a goalie getting into the fight, its about to go down crazier than a Tyson fight.

**RomanesEuntDomus** · 11-23-2022, 11:08 AM

Hockey Prompt

I used to enjoy fighting in hockey because it can be damn fun, but in todays world there aren't a lot of arguments for it anymore. If you look at it in a completely neutral, non-hockey kind of way, it's just fucking stupid, archaic and primitive. As a society we have done our best over centuries and even millenia to move beyond vigilante justice and taking the law into our own hands so why should this suddenly be acceptable in a sport like Hockey? If you are interested in watching some fighting and martial arts, there are sports where the athletes are actually trained for it and know what they are doing where you can do just that. In addition to that, the last few years haven given us plenty of data on the dangers of fights in hockey, the head injuries and long-term effects of getting punched in the face repeatedly are no joke and can make even the toughest of tough guys lose the will to live at just thirty or fourty years old. The most prominent argument for fighting was the self-regulating aspect of it and keeping the game clean, but I think the last few years have shown that even with fighting playing less and less of a role, there hasn't really been an uptick in dirty behaviour that could've been curbed by the sort of frontier justice that people are suggesting.

notoriousTRON · 11-23-2022, 11:13 AM

I'm definitely in the pro-fighting camp in the NHL. I cut my teeth watching Kelly Chase and Tony Twist fight for the Blues. Followed by Cam Jannson and one of my favorite all time players: Ryan Reaves. I definitely believe that fighting has a place in hockey that is more that just about having fun. It helps to protect the best players from injury. Without a good enforcer to keep opposing players in check, they can feel free to rough up some of the star players in board battles and even in open ice. Players have to know that there are consequences for running down a star. I will say, that the rules around fighting have made it more of a spectacle. Such as limiting to two players, dropping gloves and having the refs hover around and let them go at it. I think there would be more value in just letting the fights be more natural and breaking them up before they get out of hand. But I realize that could create more problems. But in any case, fighting belongs in hockey.

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Wheels · 11-23-2022, 11:40 AM

Hockey Prompt

I know it brings in the a lot of the crowd but I'm personally not a big fan of fighting in hockey. I understand its place in history as a way to serve immediate justice when someone targets your star players, or even your goalie, however this can be managed by stricter, consistent and more effective punishments on and off the ice.

I'm a fan of the speed and skill of the game. I want to watch Connor McDavid, Jason Robertson or Auston Matthews thread the needle with a pass, snipe the corner with a twisted wrister or hit the one timer on the power play. I was a hockey fan during the era of the goon. I watched Tony Twist, Kelly Chase , Bob Probert or Stu Grimson play in their "prime", and while it could be exciting, it took away from the finesse and temp of the game. I don't really miss seeing it in today's game and wouldn't mind it being removed all together.

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*kenvald* · 11-23-2022, 12:11 PM

Sven is not one to fight, ever. He's aware that it's a part of the game and that it's not always a bad thing. But in general he stays away or just hugs players when they want to fight so it ends early. He's seen too many fights go poorly where an unlucky punch or landing on the ice forces someone out of the game. And he's just not in to that. Especially not nowadays as he's getting older. Any accidental bone break or sprain would have a tougher time to heal than when he was younger and more flexible. Not to talk about the recovery keeping him away for potentially a long time.

But as mentioned he's aware that sometimes a fight is necessary. Luckily this is why we have Towelie on the team! If we need someone to rile up the team or just send a message, he's the one coach Luke calls on.

minaj27 · 11-23-2022, 12:12 PM

Minaj has never been much of a fighter himself. Although he enjoys frustrating the other team into taking penalties, he has never been in a fight himself. His enjoyment of being an agitator has gotten him into some trouble, however, where the opponent's designated fighter has targeted him many times. In the SMJHL league, his best friend last year with Quebec City was his defensive partner Fdam Aoote because he stood beside me against the toughest players. In fact, Fdam's sole fight and win last year were defending Minaj after he pissed off the wrong player. When Minaj inevitably gets into his first fight in either the SMJHL or SHL, he will happily attempt to defend himself. Although he may not win the fight in deciding fashion, the hope is to get the draw and generate the energy boost for QCC to win the game. I hope whoever that first fight is with has the same number of fights as me.

***Fantobens*** · 11-23-2022, 12:47 PM

Hockey prompt-

Fighting is the best. Sometimes people need to fight. Got to get that masculine energy out of your body through your fists and directed at some one else. My last player loved fighting, until the league cut his nuts off. But for real sometimes players like to skate around the place like they own it. Those kinds of people need to be put in check sometimes. Especially if they are on the visiting team. The need to recognize the fact that they don’t own the place, they are just visitors, show sim respect. And sometimes that show of correction comes through your fists. It’s not as bad as it used to be. My dad would say “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.” That’s not that true anymore, but sometimes, sometimes people need to be punched in the face. Or guts, no one body punches enough. And get rid of the fighting strap. Actually just make it more stretchy.

Wearingabear · 11-23-2022, 12:50 PM

The philadelphia forge of the simulation hockey league are facing their expansion rivals, the Montreal Patriotes, the gold and burgandy of the Atlantic Division. Coach Dans Zpeffier was irate, throwing water bottles, clipboards, breaking sticks in the tunnel. It's the first game of the season for christ's sake! We shouldn't be getting demolished this badly, esppecially not with the new additions the team has picked up. So, since the boys are out there and struggling hard to run them up, it's about time that they start to fill em in. The boys start getting chirpy out there at first, giving a few extra slashes here and there. Then they switch into old school hockey NHL Hitz '03 mode, where the hits are massive and they don't stop going. Finally the Montreal team gets frustrated with the physicality and starts chirping hard at the Forge boys. So go to 10 minutes left in the 3rd, face off just outside the zone and Igor is chirping hard with their right forward. Whistle goes and so do the gloves. The bench is hollering and yelling, tapping sticks for the first fight of the season. Igor wails on the poor Patriote, refs blow the whistle. 5 minutes for fighting. Igor sits in the box and doesn't feel shame, he feels pride, and exuberance and adrenaline coursing through his body that he got the boys going. The forge end up scoring 3 in the last half of the period, pull the goalie and then the empty netter.

***TheGreatToeJam*** · 11-23-2022, 03:46 PM

Written Task: Is that player going to be you? Is your player a fighter? Have they ever fought before? Would they ever if they haven't yet? Why or why not? If you have fought, do you remember who it was with? Did you win? Who started it? What does your player think about that aspect of the game? If you're a goalie, tell me what it would take to get you out of your net and skating down the ice to get the other goalie! (150+ words)

I'm not going to lie, Egli isn't much of a fighter. He loves big hits, he loves playing a physical game, he plays rough along the boards and it's a huge part of his game. However, as fighting becomes less and less a part of the game, it becomes more a niche. One that Egli just doesn't have. All of that being said, Egli is a team first kind of player, and if the team needs a spark, and if throwing hands is the last resort, then you bet your bottom dollar that Egli will be first in line to a donnybrook. I don't think he is the type of player that would initiate a fight but he wouldn't back down if someone dropped the gloves.

And in my mind, Egli would 100% win. But that's the kind of overconfidence that get's you embarrassed in front of the home crowd. So who's to say?

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***DrunkenTeddy*** · 11-23-2022, 05:01 PM

Luc is absolutely a fighter, he has not had a ton of them in his career but he has had enough to know that they can send a clear message to the other team and really turn the tides of a game where everything feels lost. A few good punches or a good takedown and it can get your whole bench fired up, who knows maybe you can come back from that 5 goal deficit if you are fired up enough and if the other team is down their best player. The trick is lining up against their best player and getting them to drop their gloves with you. If you can beat him in a fight when your team needs the hope badly enough it might just rally them and the other team missing their top guy definitely helps the cause even more so. Luc always fights with a purpose.

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C9Van · 11-23-2022, 07:12 PM

Firstly it is the 1st prompt: I mean Jon Forty One was a fighter but I do not know if this version of Mr. Forty-One would be considered that considering how lovely Baltimore and more importantly, the Raptors are/have been. There is no pain or anger with this dude so I can't really say that he would just try to start aa riot. As a defender he probably would not be playing well so from that point onwards he would do the tactic of "getting gud"

Though I could not really help them score, Isaac could probably not concede any more and hopefully the comeback could happen with what available time we had left. Highly unlikely but what can you do. In the opposite version where we are up 5-0 then I would just try to stop them from doing any tactics anyone may have suggested around this post to try and make sure it goes to 6-0 for us.

If we're against french people/PSG players then we still have plenty of time before they choke it away.

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