Despite claims, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penalties
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0269889
Article Title: Tooth for a tooth: Does fighting serve as a deterrent to greater violence in the modern NHL
Author Countries: U.S.A.
Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.
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Tooth for a tooth: Does fighting serve as a deterrent to greater violence in the modern NHL
22-Jun-2022
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.