Enough Brain Damage Already:
[...]Mr. Burke is regarded as one of the smartest thinkers in hockey management, perhaps in part because he never went through the mind-numbing apprenticeship that is an NHL playing career.[...] In Russia, as it happens, hockey culture evolved out of low-contact soccer traditions rather than from the arts of war and, as a result, clever puck movement is still prized over mindless pugnacity.
This is why my favorite kind of hockey is four-on-four sudden-
deathvictory overtime hockey. Even in the NHL, the guys can't screw around hitting each other -- they have to play the game.
