The Virtues of a Good Fight: Assessing the Ethics of Fighting in the National Hockey League

Zakhem, Abe

doi:10.1080/17511321.2015.1017522

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“…In the area of professional hockey, the NHL has been the focal point of most scholarly research; given it is one of the "big four" sports in North America (Titlebaum & Lawrence, 2010), this is relatively unsurprising. Some of the research on the NHL includes topics such as the adjustment process of playing in the NHL (e.g., Battochio et al, 2009;Battochio et al, 2010); violence (Burdekin & Grindon Morton, 2015;Zakhem, 2015); the effects of concussions (Caron et al, 2013); shootout advantages (McEwan et al, 2012); and scouting criteria and assessment (Renger, 1994).…”

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Legitimate pathway to professional ranks or career termination?

Chard

Edwards

Wigfield

2021

JESS

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The purpose of the current investigation was to empirically evaluate the career progression of USPORTS men’s varsity hockey players to understand if USPORTS men’s hockey is a legitimate pathway to a professional playing career. To address this, USPORTS men’s varsity hockey rosters, from 2000-2018, were captured and analyzed for athletes who progressed to play professional hockey. Findings indicate that 1,391 USPORTS athletes progressed to professional ranks between 2000-2018, a number representing approximately 70 players, on average, per season. Drawing on expectancy value and legitimacy theories, the findings revealed that USPORTS men’s varsity hockey is a legitimate athlete pathway for players to reach professional levels of competition.

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