Sport's Violence May Have Worn Out Welcome

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As a former Rangers captain, Dave Maloney played in an era that produced some of the NHL's most fearsome fighters, including Dave Schultz, Dave "Tiger" Williams and Terry O'Reilly. As a Rangers broadcaster, he's watched, among the current crop of brawlers, Colton Orr, Donald Brashear and the late Derek Boogaard.

Maloney, of course, was a fairly physical defenseman himself from 1974 to '85, though he said he was never convinced anybody actually liked fighting. He certainly didn't.

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Sport's Violence May Have Worn Out Welcome

Now, he said, it should be banned from the NHL.

"If the concussion issue continues to be front a...

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