I think fights in hockey are fine but they do need to be regulated or punished a little harsher in certain situations. There are numerous instances that I see a fight happen after one person keeps instigating it or will even drop the gloves and start wailing on someone but then they both just get 5 in the box. They need to throw out the instigator penalty more consistently and in my opinion stop hitting both with 5 minutes when one jumps the other and the other gets no punches in before it's broken up. Start punishing the crappy behavior and allow it to be more fair and even and I think the game can grow a little more for a lot of people. Fights are exciting to people, especially newer fans or potential ones and also to the fans at the arena so there's no reason to remove it. I am glad that for the most part, goons have been going away and now you need a little skill to go with the fighting to make a team, usually anyways.

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