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Despite claims, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penalties

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Despite claims, there is "no quantifiable evidence" that in-game NHL fighting deters more undesirable violence, per analysis of a decade of hockey penalties

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0269889

Article Title: Tooth for a tooth: Does fighting serve as a deterrent to greater violence in the modern NHL

Author Countries: U.S.A.

Funding: The authors received no specific funding for this work.

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