Fighting in the NHL will probably disappear organically at some point, but why wait? And most men playing pro hockey are not in the NHL. What about them? Don’t tell me eliminating fighting will deprive some players of their dreams of making it to the NHL, because for every player that doesn’t make it, another one will.

Don’t tell me (and in profane words, no less, as many since-blocked Twitter respondents did) that fighting belongs in hockey because it has always been part of hockey. Beanball wars used to be a fairly regular part of major league baseball, and the sport has survived without them.

-Larry Brooks of the New York Post where you can read more on this topic plus other subects like this...

So entering Saturday, the top five teams in the league — Buffalo, Washington, Colorado, Edmonton and Boston — had combined for a 39-8-8 record (.782).

Meanwhile, the bottom five clubs — Ottawa, Detroit, Minnesota, New Jersey and Chicago — had gone an aggregate 12-31-5 (.302).

What happened to parity?...