“The game is so much better now, it’s faster. It’s more skilled. The competition. The players are in better shape. We don’t need fighting. No one listens to me, but I recommended to the rules committee that maybe we should follow what hockey is everywhere. If you fight, you get disqualified. Everybody wears a face shield. It’s not necessary.”

-Kevin Collins, retired NHL linesman and just inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame. More on this topic and other hockey notes from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe.