With full cages and no repercussions for their actions, everyone is a tough guy in college hockey.
Merrimack's Kyle Bigos is an intimidating figure at 6-foot-5 and 230 pounds. He spent 333 minutes in the box in his two-year junior hockey career.
When someone took liberties with a teammate, Bigos dropped his gloves. In college, he'd be ejected and forced to serve at least a one-game suspension.
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Yes, because we need another developmental league where guys will be brought on strictly as goons instead of hockey players.
Some people are talking about whether to kill fighting in the CHL in the wake the Boogaard articles, and then this? Man, hockey is a funny sport.
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I think the author ignores the fundamental difference in the way they call penalties in the NCAA. They call everything tighter there. Interference, Boarding and CFB are called far more strictly in the NCAA than they are in the NHL.
Aside from that, there are also a lot of hooking, holding and tripping calls in the NCAA.
There are very few slashing or high stickings called though.
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