“We do everything in our power to stop an offensive guy from scoring goals,. We do things to break a system, yet when we have fighters on another team we want to fight him? I don’t know why. …

“There’s a purpose for aggressive play, but there has to be a purpose (for fighting) — without it there’s no reason to do it.”

-Ted Nolan, head coach of the Buffalo Sabres. More from Nolan and a few other coaches by Chris Johnston of Sportsnet.