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Philadelphia Flyers' Sean Walker, right, is checked by New York Rangers' Matt Rempe (73) and Barclay Goodrow (21) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)
FILE - Philadelphia Flyers' Rick Tocchet (22) takes a hit from Quebec Nordiques Greg Smyth during a first period fight in Philadelphia, Oct. 21, 1988. It doesn't happen often, but you still have to have it,” said Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet, whose 237 career fights rank 21st all-time.(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta, File)
FILE - Minnesota Wild left wing Derek Boogaard (24), left, gets hit by Edmonton Oilers left wing Steve MacIntyre in a fight during first period NHL hockey action in Edmonton, Canada on Friday Jan. 30, 2009. The deaths of old-school enforcers like Derek Boogaard and Bob Probert, who were posthumously found to have chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, has changed some minds when it comes to glorifying fighting the way it used to be. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jimmy Jeong)
New York Rangers' Matt Rempe, top, fights with New York Islanders' Matt Martin during the first period of an NHL Stadium Series hockey game in East Rutherford, N.J., Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
FILE - Ottawa Senators' Brady Tkachuk, left, and Chicago Blackhawks' Jarred Tinordi, fight during the second period of an NHL hockey game Monday, March 6, 2023, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)
FILE - Washington Capitals defenseman Steve Oleksy, right, lands a punch on Carolina Hurricanes left wing Drayson Bowman during the third period of an NHL hockey game Tuesday, March 12, 2013 in Washington. Oleksy believes fighting will be virtually extinct a decade from now. Oleksy and many others point to junior hockey and even younger levels banning or at least discouraging and not teaching fighting as a bellwether for where it's going. Fewer players coming up through the ranks know how to, or are willing to, fight. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
FILE - New Jersey Devils' Mark Fraser fights with Buffalo Sabres' Cody McCormick during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/David Duprey, File)
FILE - NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman talks during a news conference before Game 1 of an NHL hockey Stanley Cup second-round playoff series between the Colorado Avalanche and the St. Louis Blues in Denver, Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Bettman has said fighting has a place in keeping down the temperature of games. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey, File)
Philadelphia Flyers' Nicolas Deslauriers (44) and New York Rangers' Matt Rempe (73) fight during the first period of an NHL hockey game, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Derik Hamilton)
FILE - Chicago Blackhawks' Todd Simpson, rear, fights with Nashville Predators' Jordin Tootoo (14) as a fan cheers them on during the third period of an NHL hockey game Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005, in Chicago. The Predators won 6-1. Twenty years since the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators broke the NHL record for penalty minutes with their brawl-filled game, fighting has evolved in hockey to the point of being rare but not gone.(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
FILE - Cam Neely of the Boston Bruins, right, tries to avoid a punch by Rick Tocchet of the Philadelphia Flyers, left, in the first period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Dec. 6, 1986. Both players were penalized for fighting. “It doesn't happen often, but you still have to have it,” said Vancouver Canucks coach Rick Tocchet, whose 237 career fights rank 21st all-time.(AP Photo/Peter Southwick, File)
FILE - Fans cheer as Vancouver Canucks right wing Derek Dorsett (51) fights with New Jersey Devils defenseman Seth Helgeson (25) during the second period of an NHL hockey game, Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2014, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Don't expect a fighting ban, like the ejection and suspension policies that exist in college and internationally to make it punitive to drop the gloves, in the NHL any time soon. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Jonathan Hayward, File)
Graphic looks at the decline in fights during NHL Hockey games since 2000-2001; 2c x 3 3/8 inches