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Posted by: dahuterschuter
Posted by: Shane Walsh
Maybe to you but a lot of people view it as standing up for your team by showing that you'll fight for them. It's sportsmanship when both of them agree to it. It would be unsportsmanlike when 3 people rush 1 man and start beating him which never happens.
A lack of respect for your team would be NOT fighting for them when they challenge you.Why is fighting for your team (although I reject the idea that anyone is actually "fighting for," their team) more sportsmanlike or respectable than playing for your team?
And no, disrupting a professional game of hockey so you and another player can knock each other in the head a few times is not respect for your team, the other, the league's or the sport. It's specifically disrespectful. And it's detrimental, because then you're sitting in the penalty box and taking yourself out of the game. You're more valuable as a player on the ice than a fighter in the box.
please just leave and take your European fighting rules with you. You fight to defend a teammate. Someone hits your star player you fight them, it gets the crowd going, it energizes your team and is an all around morale booster.
That is why the fighting is allowed