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For two days, the NHL has demonstrated it actually can get things under control, and the players have demonstrated that despite all the excuses those trying to shill for the game will attempt to offer up for them - new rules, the speed of the game, the bloody history of the sport, the intensity of the battle, etc - they are completely capable of generally respecting each other and not turning games into a joke.

What a revelation. And, interestingly, fabulous hard-hitting hockey ensued in the 2012 Stanley Cup playoffs on Wednesday and Thursday, and not a single fan stormed out of a rink in protest of the absence of head shots or fist fights. Its possible people even watched the games on television in significant numbers.

Extraordinary.

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