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From: citrin@ucbvax.ARPA (Wayne Citrin)
Newsgroups: net.sport.hockey
Subject: Re: NHL Rule Change
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 13:52:33 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 26 13:52:33 1985
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Reply-To: citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (Wayne Citrin)
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Okay, so many people have pointed out the flaws in my argument that even I
can see them.  Jeff has a good point: that enforcement of the rules would
make it harder for a team to provoke a retaliation by punishing the aggressor.
Of course, such a rule is already on the books for fighting penalties, in order
to prevent a team from sending out their goon to get into a fight with the 
other team's star.

Someone suggested supplemental penalties to be given if a team's penalties
went over a certain limit.  I don't think that would be a good idea.
Teams would be afraid to play aggressive hockey at the end of a game if they 
were near their penalty limit.  This rule might help prevent fights, though,
if it just counted penalties other than minors.

Wayne CCitrin
(ucbvax!citrin)