Rules, equipment change fighting's impact on NHL
China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-18 08:24
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This Jan 19, 2006, file photo shows Montreal Canadiens' Sheldon Souray (right) fighting with Calgary Flames' Darren McCarty during their game in Calgary, Canada. Fighting is so much a part of NHL culture that there is a special category of players devoted to doing the game's dirty work. Jeff Mcintosh / Associated Press |
NEW YORK - Detroit Red Wing opponents knew better than to mess with Steve Yzerman. Take a cheap shot at him - or any of the other Wings, for that matter - and you'd have to answer to Bob Probert and, in later years, Darren McCarty.
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