Robb Newman wrote:
 
> Just curious - how does the WCHL player from Anchorage who got arrested for
> assault last night after spearing an opponent in the face while play was
> going fit into your "controlled" violence theory.  (sorry for the run-on,
> but the guy NEEDED lots of modifiers)
>
> Sportscenter made it sound like the guy had been around long enough that he
> should have known any understood "rules" if the players, in fact, abide by
> such things.  Or is this the exception that proves the rule?  Apparently he
> and the guy he speared were both enforcers who had gone at it several times
> before.
 
Actually, from the report I read, this incident fits with Greg's theory rather
well.  Supposedly, the player who demanded the arrest had pretty much done the
same thing to the arrestee last month in Anchorage.
 
J. Michael Neal
 
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