from Larry Brooks of the New York Post,

There is not another team sport in the world in which the fistfight between John Hayden and Marcus Foligno in Chicago on Thursday would be tolerated as part of the game.

It is well past time that the NHL legislates it out of hockey, too.

Taking a haymaker to the jaw, as Foligno did in suffering a facial fracture on the punch from Hayden—a 22-year-old American who came through the U.S. National Development Program and played four years at Yale—should not be part of anyone’s job description.

Not with what we know about the danger of taking shots to the head. And perhaps more to the point, not with what the medical profession still does not know about it.

What once passed for entertainment is now merely disturbing.

It is impossible for the NHL to present itself as being serious about eliminating intentional blows to the head when fighting—in which landing blows to the head is pretty much the objective—is still countenanced.

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