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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 2038638" data-attributes="member: 812">Worth noting that one reason players fight (knowing what the penalties can be) is to demonstrate to the other team that they're not willing to get pushed around.Most teams have a couple of "enforcer" players whose job is to apply physical force to the key players on the other team, driving them into the boards and knocking them down so much they get intimidated and become less effective. If a team starts to believe that they can't stand up to this kind of treatment, they won't play well because they'll give up the puck quickly rather than risk another crushing bodycheck, or they won't dig in the corners for it because they're afraid of getting hurt. So one of the jobs of the enforcers on one team is to stand up to the enforcers on the other.If as one of these sorts of players you see an opposing player roughing up one of your guys, you need to move in right away and put a stop to that. Without any room for negotiation or hesitation. Lots of fights start because one enforcer is smacking around a smaller player, which draws an enforcer from the victim's team to come in and return the favour, and then you've got two tough guys trying to intimidate each other and prove they're the tougher, and well, nobody can back down now so the punches start flying.A good enforcer is able to spot this kind of thing quickly and get involved right away, because there are rules regarding joining a fight (it's bad to start a fight, but it's MUCH worse to come in to a fight that's already started and join in). Some not-so-tough players are also really good at irritating opposing players into starting fights, knowing that they have strong enforcers on their side to back them up.Or, like little Theoren Fleury, they're just so annoying and wound-up they don't care and end up getting the snot kicked out of them again and again.Glad you had fun.</blockquote>

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