50 Landmark Hockey Fights

50 Landmark Hockey Fights
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2001 file photo, Chicago Blackhawks' Bob Probert, left, and Boston Bruins' Andrei Nazarov mix it up along the boards during a first period fight in Chicago. Enforcers, goons, whatever you want to call them, players like Bob Probert and Derek Boogaard made careers from dishing out and taking punishing hits. That job is sure to come under added scrutiny after thesudden death of Boogaard, five months after he suffered a season-endingconcussion.(AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 28, 2001 file photo, Chicago Blackhawks' Bob Probert, left, and Boston Bruins' Andrei Nazarov mix it up along the boards during a first period fight in Chicago. Enforcers, goons, whatever you want to call them, players like Bob Probert and Derek Boogaard made careers from dishing out and taking punishing hits. That job is sure to come under added scrutiny after thesudden death of Boogaard, five months after he suffered a season-endingconcussion.(AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)

The place of fighting in the game is hockey's eternal debate, a struggle between the hawks, to whom brawling is a time-honored way to hold players accountable for their actions, and the doves, to whom it is nothing more than a barbaric relic from a less enlightened time—one that prevents the sport from gaining mainstream acceptance in the U.S.

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