Firing Up the Base

The Sun's Earl McRae writes an article sure to fire up the letters to the editor Ban Talk Fightin' Words

And for good measure his subtitle
'Only a sissified world would you ban hockey fights and glorify the NHL's All-star game'

The only way fighting can ever be taken out of hockey is to change the essential nature of the game so that it's not the great game of hockey anymore. No bodychecks, no slamming into the boards, no excessive speeds.

In otherwords, a boring, dreary, sissified waltz such as the all-star game, and what a joke that pathetic spectacle was.

How ridiculous it is when the skills competition is more appealing than the game;

Good for him.