Hockey Enforcers and the CODE

If you're a hockey fan and now you want to know why, hmm...duh, you've seen a lot of fights in the hockey games, haven't you?

And you heard these crazy fans’ cheers for their team's enforcers, right? Well, maybe you yourself are one of the crazy fans I'm talking about.

I love the fights because of their hockey spirits, because of that braveness, and responsibility.

Wonder what the heck am I talking about eh? Responsibility...? But you'll get what I mean in awhile.

The enforcers of the team might be the nicest guys you'll ever seen off the ice, but on it, that is their job.

I know their job is hockey players, but they know that they couldn't score a natural hat-tricks all of the sudden, and they know themselves well, their talent, and they know their forces could help the team a lot, that's their job, their role.

Have you ever heard that the team's enforcers are usually the most favorable guys if the MOST popular guy is the captain? Well, why not, the enforcers are the ones who got the fans all excited, the ones who cheer the bench up, most importantly, the ones who bring a team momentum, hope, and energy.

The thing that's important is to protect the other players on your team, especially the best players and, of course, the captain.

Sometimes the fight started with just a little shove from a enforcer to the best player on the other team.

Sometimes the retaliation could bring to a really ugly ending.

You all know the Bertuzzi incident, so we don't really have to talk it all over. The victim was the rookie, Moore.

Surely enough, Moore thought he paid enough responsibility for hurting the Canucks' captain. And surely enough, Bertuzzi think the other way, so Bertuzzi goes up and asked the kid.

Moore, on the other side, doesn't want to fight anymore. Indeed, he's not a fighter, and what does he know, he's just a rookie, so he refused Bertuzzi again and again. And Bertuzzi finally decided to shove at him, so, "slam," Moore's down...

Okay, the uglies, first of all, Bertuzzi shouldn't take a shot at Moore at his back.  That's against the CODE.  You just don't face a guy that's not ready, and you don't face a guy who refused to fight.

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