Have you ever been to a hockey game and a fight broke out? Seeing the reaction of the fans around you makes the game even more exhilarating. What if fighting couldn’t be allowed in hockey anymore? Fighting in hockey should not be allowed, because it glorifies violence, sets a bad example for kids, and leads to concussions, mental health, and potentially even death.
Fighting exemplifies and praises violence. Fighting creates a culture in which fighting is respected, valued, and looked at in a way to solve conflict. When the use of violence is approved, and legitimized, hockey players are more likely to later perform other forms of violence. When violence is glorified, it only advertises fighting as a good thing and makes hockey players more likely to fight, or look to other forms of violence later on in life, outside of hockey.
Fighting at the professional level sets a bad example for kids. Young players have tried to imitate the tactics used by professionals,
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legal or illegal. When kids see professionals fighting, they’re going to look up to that and use it for themselves. However, fighting at the younger level is even more fatal to kids because of how young and undeveloped they are. Kids try to follow in the footsteps of the professional players. When the professionals fight, the younger kids are going to follow, which only puts them in severe danger. While fighting in hockey brings many problems to the table, others believe that fighting is a good thing, and should be allowed.
Allowing fighting makes the sport safer overall by holding players accountable. Referees often miss contact plays while play is going on. Retaliation by fighting prevents more of those aggressive plays from happening. Combat within the game serves as a deterrent to hurting star players because aggressors know there will be payback. Without fighting, more open body shots would occur, making the game much more harmful.
While this may be true, fighting in hockey leads to concussions, mental health, and sometimes even death. Ten percent of all concussions are in hockey. Fighting leads to a number of medical conditions, as well as heavy uses of pain medication. In 2011, Derek Boogaard died from chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or repeated head injuries. If fighting in hockey continues, there may be even more life long, and fatal issues that hockey players will have to suffer
with. Fighting in hockey should not be aloud. Too much cause of health risks, and even death take place, making the continuation of the fighting very risky for players. Continuing the fighting also sets a bad example for younger kids, which puts them at risk of potential life long injuries as well. Glorifying the violence, and setting a bad example, gives hockey a bad rap. Because of how many problems the continuation of fighting in hockey brings forth, it should not be allowed.
Hockey is the game played with the curved stick and it is found in every culture. It has been a part of the Canadian and North American culture for over a hundred years. Hockey has developed from the original six to thirty teams, and many leagues. One thing that is prominent in hockey is the hit on the opposing player when he has the puck. Checking can be defined as using physical force to either gain possession of the puck or to disrupt the opposition’s play without breaking the rules. Checking has been a part of hockey since the beginning. Recently, there has been much controversy over whether or not checking in hockey should be banned. In the year 2005 and 2006 there were many rules and regulations added to checking that were not penalized before. Checking has made the hockey game more interesting game and also has given the opportunity to players to play more with minimal stoppage. I believe that checking should not be banned because medical science has gotten the ability to heal all injuries that occur in sports, players know in advance that there is high risk in the activity, and it allows a fan to sublimate his aggressive tendency.
The sport of hockey has a long proud history of being one of the best sports in the
As long as there have been sports, there has been violence in them. Ice hockey, particularly due to its increasing popularity as a professional sport, has brought up several ethical issues regarding the act of fighting in hockey. There are strong arguments for both sides of this present problem in the world of hockey. Numerous male athletes, including children as young as nine years of age, have suffered injuries as an outcome of fighting and it should be considered if it should be part of a sport that very young people grow up with (Brust, Leonard, Pheley & Roberts, 1992).On the other hand, fights create excitement and the sport of hockey might grow in terms of popularity, making the problem of fighting in hockey complex and difficult to resolve (“Towards An Explanation Of Hockey Violence: A Reference Other Approach”). Even though hockey is known to be a very aggressive and fast-paced sport, the unsportsman-like action of fighting in hockey cannot longer be tolerated.
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
When you think of hockey, you would think of people getting in fights or skating. To even play hockey you need to skate well enough to protect yourself from other people. Theses skates are 2.9 mm or 0.115 inches thick, skating is more tiring than running and they require different muscles. You have to be tough enough to take hits, block shots, or someone hitting you with a hockey stick. The puck you play with is 1 in thick and 3 inches in diameter. You have to hit the puck with a hockey stick, the blade is 12.5
leagues, contact in Ice Hockey is typically forbidden on the ice. Contact hockey is considered the
Kids are playing in a pressure pot full of stress and this is dangerous. They feel over-responsible toward team mates, parents and coaches and in consequence, are playing with chronic pain and even concussions.
“The NHL (national hockey league) is not in the business of comforting people, they’re in the business of entertainment, and if fighting represents a way to differentiate themselves from an entertainment stand point, then fighting isn’t going anywhere” In the 2014-15 season 1,230 games were played, and out of those games 391 fights were in action. 29.91% of games had fights, 45 games had more than one fight. Taking fighting out of the game of hockey is too big of a risk. I think the fans will be disappointed and the entertainment level will go way down. In my paper I’m going to write about why fighting in hockey should stay and why people think it should also.
Millions of people are registered throughout North America for participation in Canada’s national sport and pastime, ice hockey. Most young hockey players have the dream of making it to the National Hockey League (NHL). Because of this incentive to keep striving towards their ultimate goal in their hockey career, they idolize the players in the NHL. Therefore, youth players may obtain certain habits from the elite, whether those habits are good or bad. Some cases are of bad influences, such as young players obtaining the dirty playing habits of the professionals. The primary action that influences the youthful population is body checking. With the thought of losing a game, it is no wonder why players have the urge to play rough and potentially hurt the opposing team in order to be victorious. For that reason, hockey is a strong collision sport that requires great skill and motivation. Although body checking is believed to be a useful tool in the winning of hockey games, it can be the cause that leads to injury among players. Because of the rougher play, lasting brain injuries are becoming a worry and too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of the head injury. According to Michael Cusimano July 22, 2003 the article entitled “Body Checking and Concussions” states, “With the rising incidence of traumatic brain injury in hockey, too many players are exposed to the lasting effects of such injuries, some of which are not fully realized until the brain completes its maturation.” For this reason, new equipment and regulations need to be devised for use in the near future.
Nonetheless, some parents are still very reluctant to put their kids in football or rugby. This, I believe, is why high contact sports could eventually perish. Fewer and fewer kids are playing sports each year where there is an elevated risk of a head injury or concussion. (Paine) Parents do not want to gamble with their children’s mental ability and thus deny their children the opportunity to participate in high contact sports. In some sports, they have changed all sorts of rules and almost completely changed the game to ensure player safety. For instance, Hockey Canada called for a rule change to delay body checking in minor hockey. Instead of having the kids learn how to hit in PeeWee (ages 11-12), they have pushed it back an age group to Bantam (Ages 13-15). (CBC Sports) Parents were becoming too nervous about placing their children into a sport where there was hitting or hard body interaction for absolutely no reason. Why spend thousands of dollars for your child to play a contact sport and risk having them injured when there is little chance of making it as a professional athlete. Essentially, contact sports are becoming less popular among younger children and
Physical contact in minor sports is dangerous and unnecessary. It should not be permitted because minor players do not know how to safely apply physical contact in a game situation, physical contact can seriously injure players, and in the absence of physical contact players can focus on skill building.
youth sports [were] the one haven for good sportsmanship," says Darrell Burnett, a clinical child psychologist and youth sports psychologist. "Not anymore. It's not just a game anymore." With technology (etc) distracting our children with violence and so on, we cannot afford to ruin what sports may do for them. With sports being just one of the few things left that can contribute to success in life, education, and health, parents need not to put any sort of unnecessary pressure on their kids at such a young age, or any age for that matter, ever.
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