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Term Paper Title	Brian Torres
# of Words	1533
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	6.13

Brian Torres
Ms. DiCenso
BLW-3A1
Apr. 12, 1999
Should a Player Who Intentionally Injuries Another Player be Subjected to Criminal
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Violence has increased in sports, especially in those sports that involve body contact such as hockey and football.  For many years, violence in sport was considered the level of and the spirit itself determined the level of violence.  Violence has escalated to the point where players deliberately provoke fights to excite the crowd.  A player who intentionally injuries another player should be subjected to criminal and civil actions.  Depending how serious the injuries are.
     In hockey, fewer fights have not made hockey a safer game, but one thing fighting has become more menacing in the NHL.  Enforcers are bigger, stronger and better trained in boxing.  Bodychecking and stickwork have become more vicious and hits from behind into the boards, also high sticks and flying elbows.  There is a say that Conn Smythe said "If you can’t beat them in an alley. You can’t beat them on the ice."(deacon pg.68).  Before the 1998 Olympics Canadian Paul Kariya was hit by a flying elbow.  The American Gary Suter got a laughable four game suspension which didn’t fit the crime.  Paul missed the Olympics and was out of play for almost a year, also that hit almost ended his career.  To begin the season the NHL introduced a system that it will put a second referee on the ice to help spot infractions behind the play.  In the first three weeks the NHL’s chief disciplinarian Campbell slapped nine offenders with fines and suspensions for hits from behind and sticks or elbows to the head.  Yet no one is planning to ban fighting.  Rules over the past twenty years have eliminated bench clearing brawls and extra punishment on players who jump off the bench to trade punches.  Campbell expressed his view of fighting, "It’s part of the game that I think the NHL has controlled pretty good and I don’t think it is a huge problem."(Deacon p.70).
That’s a lie fighting is a very huge problem.  Fighting they say sells tickets, that it quickens the pulse in any hockey crowd.  Fighting is important to some sponsors and TV networks.  Ad executives say the NHL’s most important drawing card is it’s appeal to the prized beer and truck buying demographic.  Michael Barnett says, "One of these days, a guy’s going to get the upper hand in a fight and he’s going to land a bomb in the wrong pl...

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