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...National Hockey League's most notorious old-line thugs lined up against one of its most notorious new-line thugs. The outcome was an attack so sudden and violent that it's impelled police in Vancouver, where the game was played, to consider criminal charges. Meanwhile, on Wednesday the NHL suspended Boston's Marty McSorley for 23 games - until the end of the season - for his hit on Canuck Donald Brashear. The incident raises questions on where to draw the line between sports violence as an occupational hazard and as a criminal act, and what measures professional sports organizations...
...history is any guide, the NHL, beyond the suspension, will do little or nothing to address these questions. Certainly they don't want police involved; a top official in the Canucks organization has already asked that prosecutors not pursue the case. Meanwhile, referees routinely allow players to fight each other until they are spent. "Whatever the league says, fighting is allowed because it sells tickets," says hockey historian Stan Fischler, whose book "Hockey's Greatest Fighters" profiles both Brashear and McSorley. In Tuesday's game, McSorley and Brashear first fought just two minutes into the contest. Brashear, a muscular...
Ruggiero and Shewchuk had been playing for the U.S. and Canadian national teams, respectively, at the Air Canada Centre as part of the festivities for yesterday's NHL All-Star Game. The two All-Americans from last year combined for one assist on the weekend...
Shewchuk and Ruggiero were playing for Team Canada and Team USA, respectively, as the two teams faced off during the festivities surrounding this weekend's NHL All-Star game...
...festivities for Sunday's NHL All-Star Game in Toronto features...