"The Most Honorable Part Of The Sport"

"It's the most honorable part of the sport." Brett Hull regarding the longstanding part of hockey - fighting.

I was watching Don Cherry during the second intermission of tonight's Stanley Cup (game four) who called out the NHL for trying to package the sport to families in the United States, which belies the tradition of fighting in this Canadian sport. Cherry called NBC and others disingenuous when they allow such sports as Ultimate Fighting (and any one of a number of knock off shows), coupled with negative statements allowed in sports such as Kill The Quarterback in the NFL. Cherry feels that the sport should not be packaged as a family sport to mainly the US audience (because for Canadians, as Brett Hull put it, fighting is the most honorable part of the sport) , and challenged the NHL to bring it back to the adult level where fighting is expected and accepted.

I agree with him, too.

I hope Alfredsson is gone for the rest of the game. That was a cheap shot, in the literal sense.