Should NHL ban fighting?
No, but it shouldn’t encourage it either. What the NHL needs to do is to adopt the international ice size or move to 4-on-4. The players are so big these days that the play gets congested and true offensive (and defensive) skill is put on hold for traffic and congestion. Next time you’re watching an overtime game during the regular season, notice how open the play is and how much more exciting it is. Why? Because regular season overtime in the NHL is played 4-on-4. But this will never happen because the players and owners are too greedy. The owners don’t want to take any seats out of their building, and playing 4-on-4 means that less players are needed in the NHL, which the NHLPA would be up in arms about. My suggestion: start phasing in the new ice size as new areanas are built. Calgary already has the capability for international ice size, and I think a few other (not sure which). If the new Pittsburgh arena is built with the big ice surface, this could be realistically implemented i
