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Date Posted: 16:17:16 02/16/06 Thu
Author: dog face
Subject: human
In reply to: ghd 's message, "dfr" on 10:59:48 02/05/06 Sun

>
>OHL putting stop to pre-fight ritual
>
>Wed, February 1, 2006
>
>By MORRIS DALLA COSTA, FREE PRESS SPORTS COLUMNIST
>
>
>
>
>Equipment is strewn all over the ice as Jordan Foreman
>of the London Knights �dances� with Ryan McInerney of
>the Sarnia Sting before the two fought during their
>Ontario Hockey League game last Friday night at the
>John Labatt Centre. (Dave Chidley, The London Free
>Press)
>It used to be a spontaneous act of combustion.
>
>Now it's simply an act and definitely not spontaneous.
>
>Two guys got angry at each other for whatever reason,
>dropped their gloves and sticks and fought. Your
>standard hockey fight happened in the blink of an eye.
>
>Now, preparing for a fight is like preparing for a
>date.
>
>Two guys come together, ask each other if they want to
>participate. If there's willingness, they step into
>open ice, remove their helmets and often their elbow
>pads, run their hands through their hair, circle each
>other at a distance like partners doing a minuet and
>then finally come together to do the deed.
>
>
>Some of the preparations last longer than the fight.
>Meanwhile, the game officials stand back watching them
>go through the rituals.
>
>"It's absolutely ridiculous," said Ted Baker, director
>of hockey operations and referee-in-chief of the
>Ontario Hockey League.
>
>The league is working on a directive it will send to
>teams and its own officials that will outline how to
>treat this epidemic.
>
>"It's something the league has noticed just recently
>becoming more prevalent and we are addressing it with
>the team and our officials," Baker said. "It hasn't
>gone out yet, but it will. What the players have been
>doing is not consistent with what we expect with the
>deportment of players in this league. Officials will
>be instructed to break up any fight of that nature."
>
>Baker noted a Brampton-Sarnia game recently in which
>three of these tedious fights took place.
>
>"I don't like it," London Knights general manager Mark
>Hunter said. " It's too much show."
>
>There is already a $50 fine assessed to a team if a
>player removes his helmet in preparation for a fight.
>It doesn't appear to be much of a deterrent.
>
>"We've talked to our guys about taking equipment off.
>We tell them not to do it. I don't know why they do
>it," Hunter said.
>
>The league is concerned about the spontaneity of a
>fight and the undue delay caused by these fight
>fandangos. (Fandango: Most important of the modern
>Spanish dances, for couples. The dance begins slowly
>and tenderly, the rhythm marked by the clack of
>castanets, snapping of fingers, and stomping of feet.
>The speed gradually increases to a whirl of
>exhilaration.)
>
>"Most of the time it's spur-of-the-moment," Knights
>forward Jordan Foreman said. "But when you get rid of
>the helmet and elbow pads and (are) skating around,
>you are getting mentally prepared for it. You want to
>see if the guy's left-handed or right-handed.
>
>"You take the bucket off because you don't want to get
>hurt. I got into a fight the other day and the first
>punch I hit the guy's helmet and I had a sore hand."
>
>Even though there is no specific rule to deal with
>this type of fighting, Baker said there are
>applications of existing rules that might deter
>players from participating in this form of fisticuffs.
>A 10-minute misconduct can be assessed.
>
>And officials might do their part in moving the game
>along.
>
>"We don't want (officials) to go in harm's way," Baker
>said. "In this particular situation where there is
>somewhat of a 'staged' incident or altercation, we
>would want our officials to get involved a little
>earlier."
>
>Break up the dance before it gets going, in other
>words.
>
>But that's not something players want to see, Foreman
>said.
>
>"For me, if a linesman jumped in and stopped it, I'd
>be furious," he said. "It would probably mean that the
>next time I had the chance, I'd go out and fight."
>
>As for a cut-and-dried penalty for this activity . . .
>
>"You don't want to tie the hands of the officials too
>much," Baker said. "For example, there may be one
>player who initiates it. You want to have some type of
>sanction in place for the players, but you don't want
>to say it has to be just this.
>
>"There will be a resulting penalty for their actions.
>If you add two minutes to the 10, that's at the
>discretion of the referee."

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