This is in response to Angelo Giberti (Feb. 13) and Dee Dumais (Feb. 18). Anyone reading their letters would think professional hockey players wear loincloths and wield clubs. Ridiculous.
The Lewiston Maineiacs — as team doctor Paul Cain, team dentist Jim Helmkamp, and team trainer Brian Morrison would tell anyone — follow many rules and equipment mandates put in place at the league level to protect players from injury. Many injuries happen secondary to stick, puck, checking events in the course of a game. Take away all of those, and you've got "Disney on Ice."
It's wonderful they support club hockey in the area, but I believe I speak for many when I say Maineiacs hockey is the best hockey in the state. Slick moves, flashy saves, edge-of-your-seat skills are all there.
This is not a goon league, and fighting is not the status quo. The game Giberti saw was an anomaly. I haven't seen that many fights in a few years.
Usually fights are strategically placed and, no, they don't happen every game. As I look forward to the playoffs, I say, "Go Maineiacs."
Sarah Alto, Lisbon
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Fights are strategically placed?
Really?? and we are arresting teens in Turner for organizing fights and filming them? Can someone please explain to me the sanity in this????
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There is a difference between kids gathering to fight and a hockey fight. Kids gathering to fight has no structure, it is do what it takes to win. Some hockey fights are strategic, usually used to put a spark in the team. Also, unlike kids gathering to fight, hockey fights have structure in the sense that when one player goes down, the fight is stopped. That another thing unlike kids fighting, there is someone there to stop the hockey players, i.e. referees. To go along with the kids fighting it was considered illegal prize fighting, winner gets money. If we no longer allow boxing matchers or MMA fights, then why should we allow an organized group of kids fight? At least the boxers and MMA fighters are "professionals."
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Didn't have an agent, a contract, and a Colisee.
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