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I don’t even watch or know anything about Hockey but god damn if it isn’t the wildest sport in existence.  Like, you have these huge dudes, like, over 6 feet tall, 200+ pound guys, whipping around on ice with the grace and poise of professional figure skaters, all while lugging around 10-17 pounds of padding and a fucking stick, that they use to fucking rocket this tiny puck around to each other with pinpoint accuracy.  And then in a fraction of a second they could be fucking bare-knuckle brawling, just beating the absolute shit out of each other.  And it’s all legal.  Like

So according to many of the tags and replies on this post, fighting is not legal in hockey at all, it just happens so frequently and carries on for so long that it can easily lead someone like me, who doesn’t watch hockey, to believe that it’s completely legal, which, to me, makes it even more wild

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