What's your favorite hockey fight?

@BlueMetalChick Chicago helped make the Big Bad Bruins. They traded Phil Esposito, Ken Hodge and Fred Stanfield to them right after Bobby Orr got there.

Met Orr several times - class act all the way

@Slade Oi, real tough guys. Back before the days of the fake ass edgelords like Zdeno Chara and Sean Thornton.

@BlueMetalChick Tough and extremely skilled. A real fun time in the sport

@faithfulhusband There's surprisingly few fights in which a guy gets truly KO'd but there's been a few.

@BlueMetalChick People dail to realize that guys are on skates thus lose a huge amount of leverage in punches. Getting a punch, while not pleasant, won't cause the tremendous damage one would do if feet were firmly planted on ground

@Slade Hockey fighting is like its own martial art form specifically because they're on skates and standing in a nigh-frictionless surface.

@zork0000 Fighting will always be part of hockey. It has to be.

@istillhaveanameitsrick Probert and Domi, two of the purest enforcers lol. They definitely are icons.

@lovelywarpedlemon How are you gonna whack them from down on the ice though?

Unless you're playing goalie, I guess.

@BlueMetalChick

@CrustyDDingus Could almost be like Casey Jones.

@BlueMetalChick I believe the Skeleton’s name in that picture is Bones Jackson, changed to Bones Justice in the Saturday morning cartoon.

@MethDozer But what is it that makes it exciting if not the appreciation of skill? I don't get the appeal if it's just people doing the same thing but not as good.

@BlueMetalChick The dirty goony game of old aNHL is just a better game. It's tight, it's fast, it's stressful. Beating the shit out of each other to gruel a goal. It isn't that they aren't as good, it's a different game.

Just like how streetball would be better than the NBA. Real lacrosse being alright but girls lacrosse being booooring af.

@MethDozer You could make the argument that street ball is better than NBA because street ballers show off skills that NBA players don't. They do a lot more trick dribbling, unorthodox passing, so on and so forth. That's the same reason I'd place old school KHL hockey above NHL. They show off a lot wider range of skills. Sure they don't hit or check as much, but they do a lot more out of the box stick handling and shooting, and more acrobatic goaltending.