Sid just punching Seids in the face 😅

yeah we don’t love that 🫡 to forever quote YCDT, no ethical consumption under late-stage nhl,,, the nhlpa is a farce and needs to develop standards for head contact,,, fighting in hockey is antiquated and one of the potential methods for growing the game is to showcase individual players and remove some of the contact to allow skills to be at the forefront like in woho,,, this is a multi-faceted issue and heavily debated in hockey because of the way fighting is so ingrained into the idea of what hockey *is* (regardless of whether or not it should be) and especially with everything that’s been coming out about power dynamics and violence in/around hockey i think there’s something to be said about how the normalization of violence on the ice translates into hockey culture and outward behavior because there isn’t really foundational support coming from the league and guidelines that would delineate expectations surrounding off vs on ice actions

yet also, i a) grew up with many blood feuds and a detroit reputation for bench-clearing line brawls, which happened at the first game i ever went to, b) am a simple stupid creature easily delighted by the big skate boys dropping gloves and c) no one got injured, which does not make it okay but makes me feel like i can have a little violence, as a treat. usw usw everything is complicated there’s a million theses on it this is not the post for that, this is the post for me to show you moritz seider my beloved BODYING sidney crosby and one of my favorite mickey redmond quotes about him which is just “seider, as we’ve seen before, doesn’t care”

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