Now personally I believe although Rypien acted out of hand he is not to blame for this ordeal, but neither is the fan, I blame the arena and the NHL. How does it make any sense to have no plexiglass around the visitor teams bench?? It should already be known that hockey fans are very rowdy and with access to alcohol it is quite obvious something may occurr in a situation like that.
The NHL is to focused on there "head hunting" problem, but the way i see it is if you are not going to be keeping your head up in the middle of a hockey game and you get injured its on YOU. Hockey is a fast paced sport and you should know and be ready for something like that. What does have to be eliminated is doing this with intent to injure, players who do this don't belong in the NHL. BUT, the only way to eliminate that would be by taking out the fighting, and whats hockey without that?!
I mean think about it, if fighting were taken out of the sport in would be like taking the smack talk out of the UFC. Humanity is entertained by violence, that's quite clear, and at the end of the day its all about that paper.
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| Vancouver Canucks forward Rick Rypien |
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