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    The NHL has enacted tough sanctions over time to punish unacceptable acts of aggression by players against each other on the ice. Suspensions without pay and game misconducts are used to penalize intentional use of sticks to threaten or cause injury. Fighting is allowed one-on-one without sticks to prevent more dangerous aggression, but repeated fighting or bench-clearing brawls face stiff penalties. Through these measures, the NHL has kept intentional injuries to less than 0.1% of total injuries over 12,000 games in the past 12 years.

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    The NHL has enacted tough sanctions over time to punish unacceptable acts of aggression by players against each other on the ice. Suspensions without pay and game misconducts are used to penalize intentional use of sticks to threaten or cause injury. Fighting is allowed one-on-one without sticks to prevent more dangerous aggression, but repeated fighting or bench-clearing brawls face stiff penalties. Through these measures, the NHL has kept intentional injuries to less than 0.1% of total injuries over 12,000 games in the past 12 years.

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    NHL POSITION

    PAPER

    THIS STATEMENT SHOULD BE USED TO GUIDE COMMENTS ON NHL


    RULES AND POLICY GOVERNING UNACCEPTABLE ACTS OF AGGRESSION BY
    NHL PLAYERS AGAINST THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS.
    STATEMENT

    The NHL Board of Governors has, over a period of time,


    enacted measures to punish players for unacceptable acts of
    aggression on the ice. Tough sanctions have evolved to penalize
    offenders who threaten or cause injury to fellow players.

    In this respect, the NHL has long been alert to the fact that the hockey sti9k can become a weapon when used in an
    attempt to injure. A regimen of suspensions without pay and
    game misconducts are in place to punish the intentional use of
    the stick as a threat or instrument of bodily harm to NHL
    players. In fact, legislation was enacted last year penalizing
    even the accidental injury of an opponent by the stick.
    These sanctions are the toughest in any professional sport
    and are applied by the NHL in its vigilant pursuit to try to
    prevent intentional injuries to players by use of the stick.
    As a result of these efforts, over the past 12-year
    period, covering 12,000 games, only 15 players were forced to
    miss a game through injury caused by attempts to injure or
    intentional injury. This represents less than one-tenth of one
    percent.of the total NHL man-games lost to injury in that
    period.

    Fighting is another target of NHL legislation.


    Under the rules, a person wfio fi!ghts is taken out of the
    He is not -- in the i'ni,,,tia], .il}st~nce -- taken out of the
    game.
    Repeat behavior in-. :uittably \leads/: obis removal from the
    game.
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    It has been the League's position that the nature of


    hockey -- intensive, emotional., provocative and frustrating for
    players at various moments in the game -- produces an atmosphere
    that can lead to player aggression.
    If this aggression must be released, which it sometimes
    must, it is preferable for this to happen one-on-one, the gloves
    off, and without the stick being used in venting this
    aggression. Injuries.to players by reason of deliberate and
    unacceptable aggressive acts against one another have thus been
    kept to a minimum.

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    Under League rules, however, multiple player fights have


    been the target of stiff.aned sanctions. These have had a
    telling
    effect,
    virtually
    elimina,ting
    None have occurred
    ih three years.

    bench clearing

    brawls.

    As p~rt of this legisl~~ive


    regimen to c::ombat these
    various forms of unacceptable aggre~sion, the NHL has also
    tougpened the rules ofsupplementary discipline. The result:
    remedies stronger even than those available by way of the public
    judicial ,system for offenses of a like k_ind.
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    NHL'.s. prio~ity

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    seek

    to

    prevent

    player injuries caused by rule violations

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